Thats exciting. Okay. Thats exciting. Any other comments from commissioners or superintendant . Seeing none, roll call vote please. [roll call vote taken] six ayes. I think mr. Davis will go through lottery procedure, right . Are you doing the lottery right now . Yes. I think you need to be present to win. We are going to have a hat with 7 pieces of paper. Each piece of paper will have one number, one through seven and we also have a schedule to pass out to you so that once you pull your number, you will know which seat you have chosen. Okay. This is more exciting than i thought. I should have read my horoscope today. While we are doing this could i make a comment . Yes. I just wanted to say for the public and we talked about this before, but the issue is when these seats come up for reappointment and how they overlap each other. So it isnt so much an issue of who fits in them since all of these people have been approved by us anyway, but rather how we will make this process more worka
Plan until theyre 26, thousand dollar, 500 discounts on Prescription Drugs for seniors on medicare. So 85 percent of the population, whether they know and not of the last three years have benefited from a whole set of the provisions of the law. By the way, if it were to be repealed you would be taking away all those benefits from folks who already are enjoying them. You had the sub portion of the population, 15 , either dont have Health Insurance or by any individual market. And that is still millions of people. And what were doing is creating a marketplace where they can buy insurance and we can provide them some tax credits help them afford it. The basic structure of that law is working, despite all the problems. Despite the website problems, despite the messaging problems, despite all that, it is working. And, again, you dont have to take my word for it. We got a couple Million People who are going to have Health Insurance just in the first three months despite the fact that the fir
Thank you, mr. Chairman. First we have a joint statement which has been provided to the committee. Briefly, we each have a summary of that statement, which the committee will give and then questions. Your we appreciate the opportunity to appear with my fellow you ofioners to inform our progress and plans to carry out the commissions work and to specifically the response to the 9 11 commission, what they have done, and other things that related to that. I think we have a very high regard for the fbi. I have worked, with them over 50 years. Like any Law Enforcement or Intelligence Agency, while the fbi works to mitigate a complicated array of threats, this is a dangerous world. At the same time as the director mentioned this morning, its a work in progress. That is one of the principal areas in which we will also be our work. The subcommittee was instrumental in establishing this commission in relation to counterterrorism with four specific missions as stated. The objectives are first an
And many other amendments that came from folks would never had an amendment brought up and discussed, those amendments were discussed in the farm bill. I would say that probably of the 73 that were considered, there were 300 offered and people would get up, they would have their say. They discuss the amendment. They knew probably it would not pass, and they would withdraw it. But they at least had the opportunity to represent their states and their constituents, and we had that opportunity. This years farm bill, was in 73 a maintenance. Voted about 10 times. Senator thune, respected member of the Agriculture Committee, senator johanns, former secretary of agriculture, senator grassley and myself, we all had a total of about 12 amendments. We withdrew those from consideration from the Committee Markup and said well take them up on the floor. Except the majority leader cut it off saying, timeout, no more. None of us got those amendments. As a former chairman of the Agriculture Committee
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our guest chape lane, reverend george dillard, Christian Church, Peach Tree City, georgia. The chaplain lets pray. Almighty god, we come before you with praise and thanksgiving because you are the giver and the sustainer of life. We thank you for freedom, help us to use it well. To bless and not to curse. We thank you for justice, help us to be righteous in its use. We thank you for an abundance of food. Help us to be generous. We thank you for life. Help us to give it the value it deserves. We thank you for your truth. Help us to use it as a light to see the path back to you. Bless the members of this house with wisdom and watch over those who serve in our armed forces as they protect our liberty. Forgive us for the error of our ways and thank you for the grace, mercy, forgiveness and love that provide a path to you through jesus, the christ, our king, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of th