Office as well. Joe served in a number of different positions as bill has, ranging from committees and the house to the office of management and budget in the administration, and has served as chief economist, staff director and variety of those positions and served with bill on the Bipartisan Policy Centers Debt Reduction task force which came out in 20 10, which came out with a plan to reduce the debt which is inherited some of the proposals and policies that bill has been talking about up here with tax reform, entitlement reform. So joe youre jumping in the middle here, but we were talking the question was in terms of priorities in the federal budget and the growth in the Entitlement Programs and Interest Payments and how thats crowding out some of the other pieces. And so what do you think of the federal budget in terms of how it addresses our priorities as a country and where you see it moving forward . Well, i assume that bill probably used this word already three times, the budg
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
And girls that emphasizes how pressing and pervasive this problem is on our campuses. I am attending an initiative in connecticut to try to raise awareness about it and i would like your commitment that you will work with me and others on this committee on this issue. I look forward to working with you on that important issue in the statistics are alarming. 20 of all young women are either assaulted or an attempt of an Sexual Assault. Usually this happens and there freshmen are early part of their sophomore years. We have used those statistics in the work of the task force of the president has put together to deal with that issue and we look forward to working with you and other members of congress and trying to come up with meaningful ways that we can deal with an issue that has too often been if not ignored not given the attention it deserves. Just so no one thinks that this issue nearly involves rhetoric. There is a legal basis for legal action and federal title ix in protecting wom
Significant decisions. When you are moving crude from texas to the panel to come up to the west coast refineries and still hoping to make a profit, we are looking for some solutions but this issue of timeliness is one that i have been trying to track. On the latest report they say the growing volumes of oil that cannot leave north america are increasingly posing a challenge to the industry putting a spotlight of course where we are today which is the Oil Export Ban so this comes im not asking mr. Hamm but when as a date certain that these initiatives collide if you well with production, and when do we hit that misalignment or that mismatch that would then cause some disruption and something that i think that we shall try to avoid. I will start with you mr. Hamm. I think the mismatch is beginning to happen already. So many refineries are outbid for heavier crude here domestically. What they do is with the tarsand oil. So with those retrofits the crude doesnt fit well with some of them.
Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa