Know about whos showing up in the garden state and why both sides are afraid of folks not showing up in the old dominion. Also today, a decade ago when Medicare Part d was in the hot seat on health care. Some folks are trying to compare it to the current rocky rollout. How much of the reception and the objections are actually similar to todays talk . Good morning from washington. Its tuesday, october 29th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. To my first reads of the morning. For more than thee years it was a key component of the president s sales pitch to the public, a promise he made repeatedly while selling the Health Care Law. If you like your Health Care Plan, you keep your Health Care Plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. If you like your Health Care Plan, you keep your Health Care Plan. Nobodys going to force you to leave your Health Care Plan. If you like your doctor, you keep seeing your doctor. I dont want government bureaucrats meddling in your health
Thank you all for being here. And heather, we honor you today. You were there all along guiding and ack anying tom across all the peaks and the valleys right to the end. E thank you for your spirit, your generosity and your example as h enlivened this house well as your own for many years. Welcome back. Inempty it ismous ironic he ran for congress in the first place. He actually did it in a moment of anger. The day was july 16, 1964. The beetles had just returned to liverpool after their first u. S. Tour. President johnson had recently signed the Civil Rights Act and was on his way to a landslide victory that november. And a 35yearold tom foley was having lunch in downtown spo can. A gifted lawyer from a prominent local family and trusted aid to Scoop Jackson. Some mentioned to the guys he was eating lunch with he was thinking seriously about running for congress, not this time but the next time around. At which point one of his lynch companions bluntly dismissed the idea out of hand a
So he and friends hitchhiked to a service station to get it fixed. As they approached the outskirts of the city, they ran out of gas. So they pushed the car up the hill, coasting into town just before the deadline. Tom went on to win the race by a resounding 54 votes. There is no question there may have been some luck of the irish operating when it came to tom foley, as well as incredible stamina. What led him to make history as the first speaker of the house from west of the rockies was not luck. It was his hard work. His deep integrity. And is powerful intellect. As michael so eloquently and movingly stated, his ability to find Common Ground with his colleagues across the aisle. It was his personal decency that helped him bring stability and order to a congress that demanded most both, and still does. It brings me to a final point. At a time when our political system can seem more polarized and more divided than ever before, it can be tempting to see the possibility of bipartisan pro
More effective and that the states can implement these programs. We think these flexible programs will nut the greatest reductions at lowest cost than can be achieved through a federal program. Thank you. Thank you. Just a reminder to speakers to please talk into the mic. My name is frank cartzo. [inaudible] im with the International Brotherhood of boilermakers, local 45 in virginia. We represent a thousand worker in the state of virginia and West Virginia. A lot of our guys make their living by repairing, building, and maintaining power plants, also constructing these epa required devices. And we recognize the need to keep the air clean, and we feel like these requirements are to strenuous on the owners that have put billions of dollars into the plants to clean them up as much as they can. Technology is starting to cap up with the part of coal we havent been able to figure out yet, Carbon Capture and sequestration. We do know that it can be done but right now, we know that coal was ou
Understand that and we should draw lessons from what we are seeing in iraq to that as we move forward. Thank you. Thank you very much, senator ayotte. Mr. Donnelley. Thank you, mr. Chairman. It is an honor to have you serve and lead our country. General odierno i was privileged to serve with ike skelton. He was the model of how to serve with dignity, humble, hard working, incredibly smart. As i know you know his reading list was also required reading for the rest of us, as well. The question i have is in this ties in admiral green to a conversation we once had. You mentioned earlier today about at one time paying benefits was 1 3, looks like its heading to 2 3. For each of you, what is about the proper balance in terms of those kind of costs around Everything Else . General amos you mentioned its at 70 now. What is the right balance for each of your forces . General odierno, if you would like to start . Best case we want personnel costs to be somewhere between 42 and 45 of our total bu