Has warned that maintaing the ban may result in decelebrating or shut in production, which would be to the detriment of the nations livelihood. So many things to chew on. Many things to carry forward. We have a panel in front of us that i think is clearly knowledgeable and poised to speak to the issues if i think we will gain from the input this morning. And i think we will gain from her input their input this morning. I thank them for being here and allowing us to have the opportunity on this important discussion. Thank you for the thoughtful statement. Without the committee being hit by one of those politicfacts, i am told this is the first hearing in 25 years on this topic, so given that and the fact that we have more than 10 , a number of senators indicated they would like to make a short statement. I did not want to interrupt the Ranking Member, but when she was talking about where we have come in the past few years and production, i thank senator hoven. While as governor he did a
Cspan. Live monday night, our series continues. Rack cara car wreck. Behold him i was in the hospital person praying the other would be ok. The other person was one of my best friends. Didnt know i didnt recognize that at the site of the crash. Because i prayed over and over for him to be ok, then he wasnt, i thought nobody listens. God wasnt answering my prayers. I went through a long time of not believing, not believing the prayers could be answered. It took me a long time and a lot of growing up to come back to faith. Laura bush, monday night. Next, the challenges of implement a state Health Insurance exchanges. Speakers include the secretary for the kentucky cabinet for health and family services, a guest of First Lady Michelle Obama during the state of the union. And experts representing a la for you, maine, new jersey, and rhode island. This was hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. It is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning and welcome to our Robert Wood Johnson foundati
Was the hardest decision i had ever had to make in my air force career. I did not shy away from it out because it was another commandery and i knew the individual. Potentially longterm promising career. Of my legal advice advisor. I sought the advice of my vice and a few other trusted commanders. Process, i did not rush through it. I tossed and turned with it. In the end, i made the decision were i lost faith, trust, and confidence in his ability to command. It did not matter that i knew and seemed to be very new but when the allegations substantiated on some of the things that he had , there was no question that it was the right thing to do. The command climate that it set when the commander was removed. I did not know the full context of what occurred in that. Ituation it probably should have been brought to attention sooner. Objective. Can be they can take all of those things into account. They wrestle with it day in and day out. What do we need for good order and discipline in the
In the pacific islands, had an opportunity to hear a story and witness a video of this elder who was standing in the pacific ocean, up to his waist, and he had his children next to him, and they were probably up to about here. They were standing in the pacific ocean. As the lens zoomed back, they were visiting their elders in their graveyard. Their graveyard has been in the same place since time in memorial. And now because of Climate Change, two times a day that graveyard is covered up by the pacific ocean. So its amazing how the biggest impact i believe are up in alaska and near the equator, and were all going to start feeling it. So i personally and now we have a couple of individuals on the Climate Change reggie and karen. Yeah, reggie and karen were disappointed as natives to this Climate Change work group. So, yes, it will be a strong push me because my staff has ade it a top priority. One more question. Lance . We are the last tribe to get federally recognized through the proces
Being proposed in one state or another so even though it seems we just got through a few weeks ago, insurers are already proposing their rates for the department of insurance for the coming year. What we are going to try to do today with the help of a group of panelists with analytical firepower is to help explain what those numbers mean and what importance we should place on them. One fact i would like you to keep in mind is most of the members you will be hearing referred to policies in whats called the individual market and in the year 2012 about 19 Million People were covered in that market out of the 267 on the elderly americans who have coverage from all sources. As interesting as this discussion will be remembered that it applies to about 7 of americans with coverage. We are pleased to have the Commonwealth Fund a century old philanthropy to establish a commonwealth and we are pleased to have as the moderator the Vice President for federal and state Health Policy somebody with a