For those of you that are not familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to advancing learning and dialogue on Critical Health policy issues. To say hello as well to those of us watching on cspan this afternoon, and to those that are joining us on twitter using the hash tag whats next for medicaid. Collaborating with these Melinda Abrams at the Commonwealth Fund, and we think the fund for their partnership and organizing todays briefing. Since medicaid was created alongside the Medicare Program in 1965, it has grown into one of the most farreaching Health Programs in our country both in terms of the number of people it serves as well as their health and life circumstances and the cost of the program. Its run by the 50 states and territories within federal guidelines and is financed by the state and federal governme government. While medicaid policy has national implications, it of course also has major implications for states and their citizens as well. And
With consideration for fiscal year 2018 concurrent resolution of the budget. I want to thank the Ranking Member for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely resembles and follows what has been done in the past. Openoal is to have it and markup. Besides will have the debate. Ity to we have a long day ahead of us and i think everyone for their cooperation. We will come lead our work i midnight and hopefully well before then. If we can all Work Together that might be possible. I would like to recognize the distinguished member from indiana. Good morning. Latereveral expected today i would ask unanimous consent that consistent with caused floor four of rule 16 the chairman will be authorized to declare recess at any time today. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that thats each side b advocated 40 minutes. The Ranking Member will make an Opening Statement out of that a lot of time. Each side then makes presentations out of the remaining 10. Mem
Assistance in broadcasting this committee meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcement s please silence all cell phones and electron devices. Thank you. Madam clerk, could you call item 1 please. Item 1 resolution endorsing the conceptual term sheets wen of between the port and jppf op acquisitions, llc. Well begin with our presentation. Were going to let supervisor peskin make a few remarks. Thank you chair cohen and colleagues and pier 29 and much of the northeast waterfront is in the supervisorial district i have the honor of representing, district 3. By way of background in 1990, a little while ago, the voters of San Francisco passed proposition h, requiring the acquisition of waterfront plan and put an interim moratorium on waterfront property, and the plan was finished in 1997 after a collaborative process. And that waterfront Land Use Plan is now in the process of being updated. You may all recall that about 15, 16 years ago, there was a proposal for about 500,000 square f
This is a thing that i think its great that people want to pitch in with their private funds, but lets not separate people, and lets not have the conversation and allowing individuals to say these people have a right to be defended and these people do not. Which i think is some of the trump narrative and i think its an excellent idea and again, i have mentioned it to the Mayors Office and supervisor cohen and im glad there is getting some traction on this. I will say it does compliment exactly what im here today to promote. One, is because our public defender in this current proposal, which is i think a deep compromise, will only serve 200300 and we know there are 1500 people in detention. Our bla report states those people in detention, seven times more likely to be successful if they have representation and quite frankly, we might have four more years of trump and we dont know how many more people are going to be detained in these Detention Centers . Quite frankly, also, the presiden
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome you. This is the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im supervisor malia cohen, chairwoman of this committee and supervisor yee and supervisor tang is on her way up and well walking in momentarily. Linda wong is our clerk today and i also want to take a moment to thank our friends at sfgtv, mark bunch and Charles Kremenak for their assistance in broadcasting this committee meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcement s please silence all cell phones and electron devices. Thank you. Madam clerk, could you call item 1 please. Item 1 resolution endorsing the conceptual term sheets wen of between the port and jppf op acquisitions, llc. Well begin with our presentation. Were going to let supervisor peskin make a few remarks. Thank you chair cohen and colleagues and pier 29 and much of the northeast waterfront is in the supervisorial district i have the honor of representing, district 3. By way of background i