Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under control. And the third and final piece that i think is worth taking a look at theres a wide variety of emerging technologies that could in the outyears could lend itself to automated processes and reducing either manpower or manpower costs, compensation cost over time. Thats three big areas that would want to lock at if confirmed. We have russia creating a looming threat in europe, we have the pacific and chinas expansion or i should say increased activity there. We have the ongoing war in the mi
I introduced a bill that reforms the the act to provide greater congressional oversight and to protect against the throat of Nuclear Proliferation. When the president says it is this will deal or go to war there is another option. Lets not forget about the agreement that was withdrawn by the Bush Administration in 2008 because the president could not certify that russia was not providing nuclear and advanced nuclear advanced weapons. Iran can buy Nuclear Missile ap weapons from the russians. Next on the list what the list with vietnam and allowed vietnam to enrich. The the agreement. I opposed that agreement because it allows china to enrich. Jordan and the uae, are not allowed to enrich based on their agreement, but bad actors china, russia and vietnam, oh they can enrich. Et doesnt make. Page 5 line 13 of the general provisions of the agreement states that the nations will quote, cooperate as a appropriate in the Nuclear Energy and engage in willp am projects oose detailed in a nmp n
Did you have a sense at all of whether the cabinet secretaries were speaking to the whole house in their briefing, or maybe just to the concerns of a crosssection of democrats who would be the ones to protect the white house . It was a classified discussion of a very important treaty. I dont see any other motives except to exploited in the way that would encourage us to vote for. Was there any part of the briefing that was contentious or disrespectful . One of your colleagues says john kerry was in respectful. I did not see that at all. All i can tell you is that if we pass this treaty, you can count on the fact that the United States will not be supporting the democratic elements in iran, who are the real solution to the threat to world peace. This goes on boy back to the time when the president first was president and he had all these demonstrators in the street in iran, asking, what side are you one . And our president didnt speak up. If we pass this treaty, that will be held over o
I gave them my Insurance Information and they came back and they said, we dont know. I would like to know how common that is and what is being done to try to let folks actually know what something costs. I might add, i had at the time a high deductible, so it was an important question about my outofpocket costs. The second question is Medicare Part d, when i noted it in the biography, mr. White was involved with in 2003, has a provision prohibiting the government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. And my question is, why is that still in the law . You want to take that one, ed . Why dont you start and ill do the first one. The second one real quick. The first one was, why cant they tell me what the price is . Like i said, forget about the email. Ask them what a price is and its like getting trade secrets out of cuba, right . Its next to impossible. What were seeing is that what the price is and what i owe are two different questions, right . So if i have coverage, i think
The fdic has the history in being able to do that. Clearly were in far better shape than we were. Of all the economies around the world the one thats doing the best is ours. It wasnt a miracle. It was because of hard work that we put in place here that allowed us to arent there unintended consequences such as the issues of market liquidity, for example . I do want to comment on one aspect of hansling. I was amazed to read i wish i had his ability to say ridiculous thing and be unphased by the potential reaction. He complained nothing has been done since the bill passed about fanny may and freddie mack. The man has been in control of the house of representatives. Hes chairman over the committee that has jurisdiction. Its the great republican myth. The republicans controlled the congress from 1995 to 2006 and did nothing about fanny may and freddie mac. We would have if we retained control worked on it in 2011. The republicans have been in control of the congress and the house certainly