Good morning. It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome all of you here for our presentation this morning by alex kershaw. My name is side bunting c y bunting. I work at the world war ii memorial and have the continuous honor and privilege of being from thatmany heroes period in our history and to thosee their families and interested in learning that andory more thoroughly making up the deficiencies, i may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges, particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country, and particularly of its military history, is being being ignored it is widely ignored and that has got to be fixed. One of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in the 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation. On memorial day, we honored who have paid the supreme sacrifice and all of our wars, but we have always felt a par
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac this hearing on the medicaid cliff currently facing the u. S. Territories. The medicaid funding is provided provided by the aca is set to expire this calendar year and the lack of a funding solution will be particularly harmful for American Samoa as i know it will be for the other territories. Id like to thank our witnesses for making the long trip to washington to testify before the committee today. Welcome. Each of your firsthand experiences will provide congress with an accurate assessment of the situation. Acas first allotment of funds became available in july of 2011, long before i and many of us here were elected to congress. Those funds were only accessible after the normal annual allotment was exhausted. Medicaid and chip payment and access commission, otherwise moan as mack pack published a fact sheet for American Samoa which has a list for cal table of total medicaid spending from fy 11 to fy 17 taken from reported expenditures from t
And the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and Intelligence Committee wednesday july 17th, 9 00 a. M. Eastern. He will testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org on listen with the cspan free radio app. Two household and security subcommittees held a joint hearing how fema contracts are awarded and managed. They want to know about a 30 Million Contract after Hurricane Maria was awarded to a new company and tarps were never delivered. They heard from fema, Government Accountability office and Homeland Security Department Inspector general office. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on fema contracting, reviewing Le
I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee on wednesday july 17th at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Hell testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan3, only at cspan. Org or online with cspan radio app. A discussion on Economic Impact on improving management of the u. S. Mexico border. The Wilson Center in washington, d. C. , is the host of this conversation on strengthening economic competitiveness for both countries. Thanks to the few and the proud who are here. Weve got a few more in the hallway who will come in and join us. Thanks for sticking with us throughout the whole session today. We do have one more really interesting session. For me this is a really important one. Weve spoken for a lot of the day abo
Congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee on wednesday, july 17th, at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Hell testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan3 j online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house energy and Commerce Sub Committee on health heard from officials from two pharmaceutical trade associations. They testified alongside other policy experts. Good morning, everyone. The Sub Committee on health will now come to order. The chair now recognizes for five minutes for an opening statement. Last week our Sub Committee held a hearing to essentially follow the money in the drug supply chain. We came away with much valuable information, but we also found there are many secrets. Secret decisions about how drugs are priced. Secret deals between Drug Companies and the pbms and s