Something that we believe will help with the issue of drug prices which i think is part of the first part of your question in terms of making sure that we can make progress both on quality as well as affordable in healthcare. With regard to the delta in that particular year, i will defer to my colleagues but having been at o. M. B. My guess the date in the year will be one of the elements if it is that large of change as well as other things but ill let andy speak to that. Im going to endorse what the secretary said. First smart comment. So theres a couple of things i think hes referring to his own not mine. And yours. There is a timingish issue and that is a significant driver and we can take you off line and go how that works. Second, specialty drugs, theres thats a driver there and then i think theres a small factor for growth in population but i think the first two factors will be the biggest driver in part d. Youll actually i think well be able to take you off line but well cover
Or are there other costs as well . We follow the same rules. This is no deviation from that. It. It includes costs from the missions we are doing. As has been the case for many years. Those bases will presumably stay a while. After next year, right now the number of troops is supposed to go down to nothing. But, we are still going to see overseas Contingency Operations until at least 2020 . What you will see in the budget documents released which i have not had a chance to review myself is a proposal that we Work Together in the executive branch and congress to move some of those costs for what takes place in the command region to the budget if circumstances allow us to do so. The department is not able to absorb those costs within a big topline however. If the war ends, why cant that be done quicker the transition . It can be done quickly as a larger budget negotiation allows. But, if sequestration is not lifted, it is not doable to shove all those costs of back into the base budget w
On judiciary is has an enormous oversight. We had the first confirmation hearing. It provides oversight function. On your Sweet Potatoes, anything you can boil from the u. K. . You mentioned the nexus between judiciary the debate is moving in a constructive conclusion of ideas and then it unravels. I think we are years back in angry rhetoric on both sides. Is or anything that can bring the debate back together . I think the problem is, at least from afar, when senators or members of congress try to get together on Immigration Reform they let it go beyond a scope that keeps enough people on board. I believe we should focus on border security. If we can come up with a credible way to reduce the growth of the population first establish some credibility with the American People, and i think when we go about doing that it is going to put people out of their comforts own on both sides of the aisle. Comfort zone on both sides of the aisle but we have to be realistic about Immigration Reform t
President obama reset the goal for that initiative at the African Leadership summit. Those resources will help bring tens of billions of dollars in private investment to the african power sector. This budget request includes 1. 02 billion devoted to the feed the future initiative. The state aid managed portion of that will be 970 million. In addition to bringing more than 70 companies to coinvest with us in countries around the world this program has directly helped more than 7 million farm households move out of poverty and improve nutrition for more than 12 million children, who otherwise would go hungry, not by giving out food but by helping their families stand on their own two feet. Since 2014, the president s budget has ensure that we meet more hungry people at their hour of need. Look forward to working with congress to get that done on a bipartisan basis this year. In doing so, we hope to renew the unique policy partnership between the Food Producers shippers humanitarians, and
F. C. C. Chair tom wheeler will be before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee this morning talking about the budget request and joining us is ajit pai. Well have live coverage in about half an hour here. Also live at 11 25 on cspan3, president obama will take part in a roundtable discussion on ways to address poverty in the u. S. Its part of a threeday catholic evangelical summit at georgetown university. Again, thats 11 25 a. M. Eastern. And also at 2 30 on cspan3, the Veterans Affairs committee will talk to deputy Veterans Affairs secretary sloan gibson. It will include representatives from several veterans interest groups. Thats on cspan3 at 2 30 eastern. This weekend the cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the history and literary life of Fort Lauderdale, florida. So this was really cultural tourism and so when they set up their villages along the way, along the trail sometimes only leaned to the buses would stop because heres the tourist attraction. The semi