300 megahertz. The president s five megahertz that he called for a couple years ago, and we certainly applaud him for that effort. And we want to continue to push and get the spectrum as quickly as possible. Because Companies Like the two gentlemen represent on either side of me are using the spectrum for new and varied uses, and the people who stand to gain the most are our consumers that are now over 310 million in this country. And so we want to see that continue. Okay, thank you, steve. Craig. A lot of good comments made and agree with all this but i think from a single highest priority im going to agree with steve on this. Its spectrum. To elaborate, spectrum, spectrum, spectrum. By the way, let me tell you why. I agree strongly with the untreated, for example, he regulatory a lot of these areas where the innovation and investment in the industry and the Technological Progress are going to bring tremendous consumer benefits and really what we are looking for its policymakers to st
Across the nation more than 82 billion in direct spending in one year. The highest burden is in the south where it cost about 35 billion in one year. Are you concerned not expanding medicaid would exacerbate the disparities and leave more people as the sickest in our nation and increase the financial costs in the end . They are going to come to you at some point without having Preventive Care or Health Care Maintenance when they are very sick and cost the state more. Thank you very much to focus the attention on what all of the coverage is supposed to address, which is people oppose the Health Status and outcomes. In my state and states nearby, was a great disparity in diabetes and obesity. We have looked at the outcomes on medicaid and we do not see a great bit of difference. We have a system not turning out the kind of Health Outcomes we would expect for the amount of money we put a in. We have looked at expanding medicaid. Let me show you some numbers around it. Chairman waxman went
He was finishing a press conference down the hall. With every passing day, the republicans are calling on john banner to guarantee tax cuts to the middle class. Today, sen. Cornyn will be the second ranking republican next congress. Theyll call upon john bennett to the reasonable thing. They will have this below sooner or later. Those rates go up by operational law on dec. 31. Luol and he said this all, this is true. Within threequarters of the American People including 61 of republicans agree with john corn john cornyn that they cannot be held hostage were giveaways to billionaires. He cannot ignore the American People forever. At some point reality should set in. The only question is how much the trusts sole class families and how much they will have to endure during this process. Many other pieces of business critical to middleclass families that we will be working on if we resolve the fiscal cliffs. The three leaders here with me will talk about that today. They are waiting and wai
There is pollution in the air and the water. And it does open your eyes when it happens in your state. And it was scary. Food and water and donated to people in the southern part of the state because we understand that that is how we respond to things. Said just ar guest few minutes ago and i rewound to listen to it again said, well, if this had happened in northern virginia. West virginia is a state. West virginia faced great state. And we have a great place here. And i know people are scared. But when it comes right down to it, we are a great place. Accidents happen everywhere. Friends init for our charleston. I have been there many times. My eyes dont learn from the chemicals. It is a wonderful and lovely place to be. And i think when it comes right down to it, we have to realize it is not a West Virginia issue, it is a national issue. Tank you for taking my call. Host all right, tracy. Heres a tweet from one of the viewers. Who will pay for the cleanup and will the water be poison
When the irs is contacting them and saying, you owe us taxes. And that drives the taxpayer to be engaged in a long extended conversation with the irs. By that point the preparer is long gone, you cant find that preparer. I appreciate your clarifying that because i didnt think the standards were adequate even before we saw taxpayers bumping up against the kind of problems that youre talking about and i appreciate your demonstrating and that is usually the case that the unscrupulous are always one or two steps ahead of efforts, particularly voluntary efforts, to deal with the problem. Now i gather so were clear on this point the loving decision in your view has created new problems in effect in terms of protecting taxpayers, is that right . Well, absolutely. The loving decision, first of all, my reading of it did not could to the fact whether regulation is desirable or not. It addressed whether the irs has the authority to regulate the taxpayer under current law. There is injunction agai