Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in chicago. The way we will do this today is we will have a series of a panel of experts that will provide testimony to the task force, and that testimony will then be considered by the task force as it goes into deliberations. Let me say this. For the witnesses we have today, one, thank you for being here. For the first time of the task force, were also going to have several witnesses come in through and im going to get myself in trouble because im not a tech person so i apologize ahead of time thro
Rn. She is 38 years old. Her Interest Rate is 8. 5 interest from the government. Why is the Interest Rate so high on these Student Loans . Guest it is not high relative to what they would be paying from a private lender. It is a subsidized rate. There is a new innovation in the student loan market when they with private lenders. Host linda, what is your situation . Caller my husband has Student Loans. There are so many things being said that are not true. We started out with 31,000 in Student Loan Debt after having them since 2000, we are down to 54,000. We have been making a 340 payment for the last four years and only seen our balance go up. We are on the income or tengion payment plan. To say this we are on the income retention payment plan. We are battling with a student loan provider where it says in the contingent plan, it is capped at 10 of the original loan value. They had added an added and keep trying to say that is the way it goes. After 25 years, you say the loan is forgive
Is that a fair statement . Absolutely. We are not the Consumer Product at all. But being here at the consumer electronic show in las vegas you can see how Relevant Networks which we are doing, is becomes important to every Consumer Product that wants to be connect connected. For a while people owned ericsson phones. But do you manufacture phones . No we dont. It is more businesstobusiness . What we do is we are the Global Leader for infrastructure for networks and provide infrastructure and Telecom Services and services for operators. So that is the business we are in basically. What is ericsson demonstrating here . What are they putting on the floor . First of all the main message for us is to make sure everyone who is out there is showing the different project and Consumer Device and things they have build that want to be connected and benefit from being connected over very good networks. Of course we are showing l g products andilate es latest and Great Depression est systems why ar
The congress and the American People are making sure that we maintain our lead role in innovation. Todays budget, and this isnt a constrained environment, but we also have to continue to think of new ways to provide health care and research. Captain james lovell and chicago is the first of its kind for the partnership between the active military this was a rough marriage to bring together a manner of just blocks the great lakes hospital and the va hospital are destined to be closed. Its open and they merge together. The battles that we have fought between different cultures and active military versus the different unions, the different Computer Systems, i want to know if we have learned anything from that. During the course of this hearing. The Integrative Health record is long overdue and long overbudget. It is time for some questions to be asked about whether progress is being made. Finally the Budget Proposal is consolidating tricare as well as additional fees and copays especially