To the physician payment reform i think lance for the optimism to my belief that they will be avoided change the way that there going to get in such a way that help to close some of those even as new people become eligible. And, of course, we will also be bring in more people who better coverage throughout the lifetime. I think we have reason to believe that can make a difference and helping us of the people who are becoming eligible for medicare which also has an impact. The ben keating Preventive Care their entire lives, not even getting access to the kind of care they need to prevent hospitalizations. That will make a difference. Weve also made huge strides in quality of medicare. And the past few years reduce the admissions rate by 10 , reduced hospital record conditions by i think 17 . All of those things make me optimistic that we were able to Work Together to deal with the next changes are we need to make to accommodate the bulk of the senior to be joining medicare. Talk for a f
Monday on the communicators, he was into computers and scifi. He had always heard about Silicon Valley and dreamed of getting to america. From a very young age, that is what you kind to do. At 17, he ran away from he ran away from home and did it. Ashlee vance on one of Silicon Valleys leaders, elon musk. He is seen as the next steve jobs kind of figure. There are bits of him like that. He has attention to detail. He pushes his workers hard. I tend to lean more toward this edison kind of idea. What i have taken away is he is a guy who gets thousands of engineers, the brightest of the bright, and these very hardworking individuals, and is able to get products out of them that can be commercialized and change industry. Guy who has the combined software and hardware in a way that nobody else has. Monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Each week, American History tvs
Viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums, and historic sites. Visitedcan history tv long beach, california, to tour the queen mary and learn about the Service Provided by the massive ocean liner during world war ii. The queen mary was in service 1967 and hasand been restored and operated as a hotel for the past 40 years. Captain kayne my name is will kayne. I served as captain of the queen mary to all our visitors, who come to see us on a daily basis. On behalf of the rest of the crew and staff i want to welcome you aboard. The queen mary was originally owned and operated by the qunard line. Since 1839, it had an agreement with the British Government to forth fromack and europe to america. That is why it was called rms queen mary. Royal mail ship. Plans to begin the queen mary and the Queen Elizabeth began in 1926. They were to be the largest and fastest passenger liners ever built. Work began in 1930. Due to the great depression, work stopped about a year later. Eventually the B
Originally given seven years for ratification. Congress reported to change the rules. I filed the first lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of that change of process on behalf of Washington State legislatures more than 30 years ago. We won that case. The rule was, you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream. If you have to have an agreement on the subject matter to start with and you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream, this fearmongering going from the extreme left and right is just nonsense. The power of the convention is no different than congress. You can call a convention for a particular purpose. Congress could propose amendments for a particular purpose. Just because Congress Proposes an amendment on minimum wage, doesnt mean the whole constitution suffers. You are a constitutional lawyer. How many times have you argued before the Supreme Court . Just once. I have filed lots of briefs but only argued one time. You ever think about why the founders pu
[laughter] thank you. Thank you. Mr. Pataki how are you . Nice to meet you. [indiscernible] mr. Pataki hi. Nice to meet you. Good to see you. [indiscernible] mr. Pataki so we are off [indiscernible] yes, that would be great. Thank you all very, very much. [indiscernible] hello, everybody. This is governor pataki from new york. [indiscernible] pataki oh, yeah. Proud to meet you. Thank you for coming to iowa. Welcome to iowa. Mr. Pataki thank you. There he is. Mr. Pataki nice to see you. Thank you. Governor george pataki. There he is. Governor, what do you think of our state fair . Oh, its fantastic. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] thank you. I appreciate it. I have always had a soft spot for ag. You mentioned you had some history with our governor. He was governor when i first got elected. He mentored all of us, including me. Now i have been out of office for a while, and he is still going. Still doing great for the people of iowa. Im just proud to have known him. I worked with him for