Also gives us an impact on what germany is doing. Germany with worse than expected data out this morning. Taylor philippines president the whitete house canceled a meeting after an expletive filled tirade at the u. S. President. Theonday duterte warned u. S. Against interfering in his war on drugs. He regrets that it came across as a personal attack. David davis told lawmakers there is no turning back and at the end of the process britain will be out of the european union. There will be no attempt to stay in the you desk in the eu by the back door. No attempt to engineer a second referendum. Because some people did not like the first answer. Taylor several parliamentary committees will investigate. Arious aspects of brexit in afghanistan the taliban staged a deadly attack that killed at least 24 people. 90 were wounded. The taliban and had been gaining ground and increasing ground in territory across afghanistan. Results from the election in china isow warning that anys theres any supp
The cms initiative has contributed to an estimated 50,000 fewer patient deaths in hospitals and 1. 3 million hospital acquired conditions saving 12 billion over three years. Medical review strategies have resulted in over 5 billion of savings in just the last year. He are working to transform medicare into a highvalue paler with payment is based on quality and not just volume and we remain focused on preventing waste and abuse and fraud before it occurs. This is not just about cost the threatening than a Beneficiary Services and a host of other problems. Since 2011 we have been using the system to provide advanced analytics on all the feeforservice claims. The system also incorporates beneficiary complaints and works with numerous other inputs to generate and prioritize further reviews and investigations. Cms takes administrative action to stop problematic behaviors through the suspension of payments and medical review of claims and a removal from the program. As we recently reported t
Since azerbaijans independence, in 1991, u. S. Aid has spent 55 million on programs to make the country more democratic. The country remains more undemocratic and is becoming more and more authoritarian. The u. S. Government presses on with multimilliondollars programs in azerbaijan. In 2012 us aid issues a 1. 5 million call, i want you to listen to this. That would enable key Society Organizations to better respond to the president s vision and calls for more meaningful and state Civil Society partnership fulfilling the governments commitments to various International Human rights instruments, end quote. The idea of u. S. Taxpayer dollars going to implement the supposed democratic vision of azerbaijans authoritarian president reinforces the notion that foreign aid is a scam. Ill give you an example from kazakhstan. This is a typical program. Youll see this in every part of the world. Im a eurasia specialist. My examples from the region, usaid worked with the 1. 5 million to increase t
Dollences to the family of the brave family killed by isil. Together with jordan we mourn the loss of a hero that that galvanized the nation and the world. I hope this heinous crime helps us put in place what thus far has been lacking, comprehensive strategy to achieve goal to degrade and destroy isil. Let there be no doubt we still do not have a viable strategy to counter isil. And if you are not winning in war, you are losing. America has no greater ally in the fight against terrorism than jordan. As we made clear to King Abdullah in our meeting yesterday, this committees concern is to ensure jordan has equipment and resources necessary to continue taking the fight directly to isil. Many of us on this committee will be sending a letter to the administration on this urgent issue of concern and we invite all of our fellow Committee Members to join us on that letter. I think there was a consensus on both sides after the meeting with King Abdullah that we would send a letter out this mor
A lasting defeat. And in order to do that we need a partner. And we are trying to build that partner in terms of a moderate syrian force and local forces from the region that can with our air power and other kinds of assistance, inflict defeat on isis and then make it a lasting defeat. Thats how i would characterize what i see. Im obviously not in the councils of comfort. Thats what i infer. When you were in my office we talked about i having just returned from ukraine. When i first walked in senator heinrich was talking about lithuania. Their concern was that all of our attention seemed to be in that part of the world concentrated on i crane. Its true. Weve never had i happened to be there when they had their election for the first time in 96 years. They dont have a communist in their government in the ukraine. We have that problem at the same time as the others youre addressing. What do you think about our european strength as it is right now . Are we adequate . Are we becoming inade