Of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our citizens who are in need at this extremely difficult time. We will see what we can do to help alleviate some of the pain. Now, the hearing were having today will come to order. 20 years ago senator ted kennedy and i came together to create the Childrens Health Insurance Program, or chip, in order to provide Health Corner for Vulnerable Children and family who were too poor to afford private coverage but still didnt qualify for medicaid. 20 years ago we were at something of a crossroads. The year before c. H. I. P. Was signed into law a rep Congress Passed and a democratic president signed a welfare reform bill which ended the entitlement to cash welfare. Welfare reform sought to replace a culture of dependency with an emphasis on work. The emphasis was to mov
[applause] so i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to predict how it would happen, the extent of it, geographically ideologically or anything else. I think we thought it would and i might say before we started any program we paid tribute to the families. The families of 9 11 have been the most Extraordinary Group and they have taken the greatest tragedies in anybodys life and turned it someways into triumph and into progress and works to help other families, the people every sing
Not necessarily accomplishing what we really need to accompli accomplish. So i have an urgency, an im in my management style. We need to be sure that the successful. Is how did it get off track and when . Good question. Back, its decades and decades of problems that havent been dealt with for a long time that essentially the solutions were difficult, so from ot pushed off administration to administration administration. Theres a natural progression of these problems developing until clearly. Hem now so and you cant go back and change things, but if you could, you have changed . Its a matter of not putting decisions. When there are organizations outside of government are taking and modernizing, government cant afford to fall and keep its head in the sand. These are Management Issues that been important to address and now well tackle them head on. You consider yourself a doctor first and foremost . Absolutely. Patients, but its who i am. I approach he way the job primarily as a physician
Inside the cold war the unprecedented died to this strategy and key documents of the cold war this should be interesting and historical discussion. On a similar note october october 23rd talking about the book nixon and europe on september 11 we will have the 11th commemoration and on november 7 the daughters of president george w. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to talk about their book sisters first. And so now to our speaker douglas shown is one of the most influential Democratic Campaign consultants over 30 years his clients include Michael Blumberg and indiana governor procter and gamble and at t also he is a commentator on fox news as well he wrote a comprehensive book on nixons policies called the nixon effect. His new book is covering another presidency looking at Politics Today it is called the mayor cut in the age of trump. Fox news political analyst one williams said all Real Solutions for error people of all political stripes and how americas cando spirit can get back. [appl