Just under three hours. [background noises] [background noises] quick to subcommittee will come to order the chair will recognize for five minutes for Opening Statement. Also a lot of things happening in the whole house today between both sides. And so we are going to have to try to manage this hearing and thank you everyone who is testifying first and second for your patience and willingness to work with everyone. We appreciate that. The chart recognize mckay will recognize myself an Opening Statement. Today we are considering legislation to rewrite greater access to care for seniors with lower cost Prescription Drugs reducing unnecessary red tape for Healthcare Providers. We are also considering proposals design to make updates to our physician reimbursement bottles distract the critical balance between driving Higher Quality care while ensuring Medicare Programs remain solid for future generations. According to september 2023 report the centers for Medicare Medicaid Services Healthc
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Years and counting. It is my pleasure to introduce rachel Investigative Reporter and frequent contributor to spl center. Org journalism sector. Her wor work has covered a myrif topics and she has reported extensively on the activities of the altamerican and their supporters. She will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. So please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. My name is rachel and i manage Investigative Reporter for the wall center and i want to thank all of you for coming out and supporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute in case you dont know the specifics of what we do. Seeking justice, fighting hate and teaching tolerance. The first, seeking justice we have lawyers and legal staff that are more talented than myself but do litigation on civil rights work all over the south and all over the rest of the come trade and Teaching Staff they produce material fo
Because this is my area of concentration and focus, prison, kernel justice, but you know we have scholars here. We got real scholars. Isnt that interesting . Guess what, they are muslim. Amazing, amazing. But, i think god for the opportunity for me being here. Before introduce the panelists just a couple things. What you call them, housekeeping notes . Housekeeping notes. You will have some q and a cards on the table and we ask as we move along through the panelists that you pose your questions and write a sentence, not a paragraph, but a sentence on the cards. The cards will be collected, handed to me and i will then read the question with a statement and deferred to the panelists. That will work . That will work. I have been in this criminal justice business for 47 years, spent most of my time in corrections and my first introduction to islam was a case called foreword foreword, a Supreme Court decision that had to do with the former police chief brother who is incarcerated at the lo
Across eight states. Through the center of the country destroying homes and turning hundreds of thousands of acres into ash. And the International Manhunt for the criminals who broke into a zoo, killed a white rhino to steal one of its horns worth more than gold on the black market. The hunt for the poachers and zoos across the world go on alert this morning. Good morning, america. As you know, a lot of news to get to this morning and it is International Womens day. Yeah, going to be marches and protests across the country. Check this out. Some were wondering if the statue of liberty was in on it. Normally it looks like that. Here it was last night. The lights went out. It was a power failure. Or was it . The womens march tweeting even lady liberty is in on the movement going dark. First that massive breach of top secret information from the cia. Wikileaks has published thousands of files that expose the cia secret tools for hacking into smartphone, computers, reason tvs rocking the In