War as rebels take over large parts of the capitol. Israel shoots two palestinians dead. Killing two injuryish teenagers. We will see how people here are coping two weeks after the worst flooding in over a century. The u. S. And five of its arab allies have launched their first air strikes against the Islamic State in iraq, and the he havent. Now the group has taken over large areas of syria and iraq. And wants to establish an Islamic State in that region. Several areas were targeted including the isil strong hold of raka. War planes drones and tomahawk missiles. The u. S. Led the attacks with sup bort from jordan, saudi arabia, qatar, and bahrain. At least sevenpennies lambic state fighters were killed. Correspondent has more now on the interoperations against isil. Over the course of three hours a total of 200 bombs were fired. The vast majority from american war planes and ships. The u. S. Is president made sure to highlight the u. S. Didnt go it alone. We are joined in this action
Let us pray. We thank you, loving god. Is attention of our nation drawn to a raging tragedy. Were torn by aversion of the military years of engagement while compelling narratives unfold in so many in our world. S send your spirit on the people of this peoples house that they judiciously balance seeminglier reconcilable differences. Them to excute their consciousness and judgments with so ity and purity of heart that all might stand before you honestly and trust that you can bring fruits from their labors. N this anniversary of the 9 11 tragedy, may you heal the lives of all immediately impacted by events of that day. And as we as a nation continue toward Greater Peace and security to our world. Day us this day and every and may all that is done. Be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The chair examined the last days proceedings. One, rule o clause one, stands approved. Join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of to the republic for
Supply. It involves many issues including market structures. And we could go on and on. Substitution possibilities, etc. But but what we tackled so far were the difficult issues of things like helping ukraine face the winter, etc. This year and that will continue. But this year frankly a harder issue. We are due to report onto the g7 leader summit. And that is a real intermediate to longterm plan for integrated collective Energy Security. And that gets into some very fundamental policy issues in different countries. But that will be a big agenda item for this year. Finally let me say a few words on the quadrennial Energy Review. I have to say a few words about it first. Some of you are familiar and some are not. This is an admissionwide effort that is looking to weave together all of the equities and threads of an Energy Policy across the government. The first of the quadrennial. It to us its one plus one plus one plus one. And in the first one, we are focussing on energy structure. Tr
The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me concerned that these r b2bk ; relationships, the Financial Relationships, were impacting both the quality of health care, and the cost of health care. J2. Sn and i have to say that the process was long and tireless. At the time i worked for senator herb cole and we had, with my colleague Chris Armstrong from oa senator grassleys office, about 300 meetings with consumer a d z tr t hahp hc groups,
3. 7 billion in payments to p n hospitals in fiveu r months of the first year of reporting. Thats a÷n1szw eajjr hvqp . Those are funds that are either going to research and product development, and thats important and important for the public to understand. Or going to drive uptake of particular products. Thats also important and important to understand. eb÷ so where are we now . Pew has been involved in this acs issue in a long time, as have the other folks on the pafj0o today, and many other organizations. And since passage we have s continued tkgf hp orking group of consumer organizations, and also individual companies to build shared understanding about how the data should be presented. And about some of the technical challenges in getting that data d,s7÷ . uujeu q ublic domain. Data for the first full year of reporting has been collected. 2014 data has been collected. It will be submitted to cms in march. And in june we will have publication of the first full ÷ bko year ofut9