Reduced while we maintain quality. That is part of the overall picture. The problem with health care thus far, and i have my own ideas about what we ought to do for health care and you can look at www. Ced. Org and read about it, the problem with the cost of health care is in significant part that Technology Enables us to do a lot of marvelous thing but the technology is expensive. And so part of what is Going Forward is how do we improve outcomes in our Health Care System including doing things that are just coming online that turn out to be very costly but can do very wonderful things for people. Thats going to be very difficult, but we need to we need to work on every front and improving the efficiency of the delivery of health care is probably tops at the list of what we need to do. And just touching on your broader question, i think one answer ive heard a lot from people have done this for a number of years is that the entitlement programs go directly into peoples pockets, especia
Which russia has weaponized information as part of the campaign of special warfare, especially in the donbass. It is not a coincidence that the first thing the russian units did when they moved into key eastern ukrainian cities is pull down the Ukrainian Television and radio broadcasts. Im told the units have digital pacs plugged into the stations to immediately switch over to russian stations. The russian strategy, its important to recognize about the strategy of special warfare, the russian objective is not to win the argument, not to demonstrate truth. It is to confuse, create doubt and keep everybody off balance. Thats why you had little green men in crimea. So everybody spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out are they russians or from somewhere else . Who are these guys in slavyansk with rpgs and air peace radios. It is a strategy which rests on a tactic of misdirection which has an objective to sow division between the United States and european partners. And which has as an
Impact on every Single Family in this country. It has an impact on my families that i represent and that is why i am so proud to stand here and support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from california is recognized. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. May i inquire the amount of time left on both sides . The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california has eight minutes. The gentleman from washington has 13 1 2 minutes. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. I would now yield four minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. Huffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Huffman i thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, some of our colleagues from other states may be experiencing a sense of deja vu right now. Yes, this is the second time this year that the house has voted on a California Water bill that would harm Northern Californi
First got elected was the issue of the National Guard came up and i was on armed services. A lot of those guard folks were being deployed multiple times. And it was very, very difficult for their families. And a number of us recognized that what we needed to do is build facilities, upgrade facilities, get rid of those old facilities and replace them with Readiness Centers to train and equip our troops in the event that we had to send them overseas on a mission, which we id many, many times. But we needed to construct those facilities also for their families, for their spouses and for their children. On the Appropriations Committee what tom latham did was make sure we had the funding, to make sure we built those facilities as well. So we were able to work on that issue together. And then when the great flood of 2008 hit across iowa, but mainly across the eastern half of iowa, it included a lot of tom lathams district and a lot of it included my district, about half of the damage was in
Saving for retirement and savings stated after retirement. And you reap lord says americans s accounts are rising. This is just under two hours. The finance committee will come to order. Would you take a look at the state of Retirement Savings in america, it is clear that something is out of whack. The american taxpayer subsidizes retirement accounts. Still millions of americans nearing retirement have little or nothing saved. The fact is the incentives and savings in the american tax code are not getting to those who need them most. Of the pack savings has about 59,000 set aside for retirement. According to the Government Accountability office, 9000 taxpayers have fire a ira accounts worth 5 million. It would take several lifetimes of work for the typical middleclass american to save that much money. How did the massive ira accounts come to be . In many cases they seem to be stock deals that most investors would never have access to. Executive buy stocks at a special rockbottom price