That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people, i appreciate that you have done all this work. We are looking at our military stepping forward first and making many changes. I think we need to look across the entire budget, ytoo. Where we are, we are going in 2016 two defense budget, only 3. 1 of gdp and 14. 3 of federal spending, which is the bottom of historic rates since 1950. The reason i want to put that in perspective in the big picture for everyone, we look at the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make. This separation from
Provide Financial Information to the younger ranks, to the guys at first come in so they dont buy a Lincoln Navigator and try to live on their paycheck and Lincoln Navigators bills whatever. Host time for one more call. Phoenix, arizona. Ben is on the line for democrats. Caller [indiscernible] host ben, you are breaking up. We will have to let you go. Must be a problem with cell service there. That will wrap it up. Thank you for all the calls. If you missed any of the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on the commissions recommendations concerning military retirement pay changes in Health Care Benefit changes that hearing is available in its entirety anytime on her website, www. Cspan. Org. If you would like to read the reports by the commission, their website is mldc. Whs. Mil. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan2s booktv, toby har nden on the british efforts in 2009 to stop the taliban advance in afghanistan while awaiting u. S
When americans and canadians formed for the first time the combined unit trained to be a small elite corps capable of accomplishing the seemingly impossible. May their story be an inspiration to the members of this peoples house where a similar cooperative effort toward a shared common goal appears all too often to be seemingly impossible. We ask, o god that all who populate these hallways this day be possessed of goodwill, appreciative of the great exploits of so many of our american ancestors and may all that is said and done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman rise . Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favo
Not performing as properly as it should, whether those be designed an architecture or Software Types of problems where we are not getting direct result, we continue to address a lot of those issues. The major one we are dealing with now i would say in terms of big picture has to do with the financial management, making sure that plans are getting paid, and we are using a mitigating process right now because we do not have full functionality for that process. We heard the administration was focusing first on getting nrolled,nd rolled e and then worrying about the back and. End. What are you doing to remedy that . Weekyments will go up next for the first time, for the tax credits, but we are using a process where they are providing us with the data from the issuers based on their records as opposed to being able to use the records that are generated by the ffm. That automated process will be going into place in the next month. Is the Administration Working with the insurers to make that
They are only working now because a glitch czar had to be appointed. I do not know how you feel about that stop it upsets me. You came before the committee and told us that everything was ok. We spent hundreds of millions of dollars. We had 3. 5 years to get it right and then we had to appoint a glitch czar to get it right. The enrollment numbers are meager. Perhaps you have a different story. Ayres, canceled plans, broken promises. That is just the start. Now we know that your agency failed to heed internal warnings about the lack of readiness of the exchanges. It is my hope today that he will come to the subcommittee, prepared to answer our questions. I hope you will set the talking points aside. You owe this to your superiors. You owe this to the secretary. You owe this to the president. You owe this to the congress. You owe it to the American People. This committee is about oversight. That requires that we look at the past. It requires that we look at the future. The problems of th