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Income tax reform in lincoln. He outlined his budget priorities, including investments in k through 12 education. He spoke for about half an hour. Thank you. President poly, speaker scheer, members of the 105th legislature, tribal chairman, distinguished guests, friends, fellow nebraskans, and, of course, our first lady, my lovely wife suzanne. Good morning. [ applause ] now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody whos got a birthday today. Kitty, today is your 70th birthday today, is that right . Give her a round of applause. [ applause ] i will spare you my rend...

The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Populati...

It system. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our infrastructure system which carries 400,000 cars a day. But that volume of traffic, its amazing that there wasnt a any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I also want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for ac...

More now from the alliance for health reform. This next panel takes a look at the challenges facing medicaid. Theres a discussion on healthcare trends. This is an hour and a half. With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid. Some additional states. Many states are talking to cms about what might be possible in way of their talking about waivers, what can be done. So today well talk about our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year. What the aca did, where we are with medicaid. Whats under discussion and were...

Were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists, youll notice there is one empty seat and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately because of the crazy weather we had d. C. Trishas not going to be able to get into town. So she will not be with us. Fear not, our three other panelists here watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. So first to my left, we have diane roland, executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family foun...