We wait until kids get really really sick, and then we take them into the medicaid program. In the next few years, half the countrys going to have either diabetes or prediabetes. The issue is healthy food. And getting healthy food to our citizens. This is one piece of it. And we need to do a better job with the s. N. A. P. Program. But just to cut these benefits and just wait until they drive up costs because theyre eating bad food is not the right approach. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you. Miss louhan grisham . I thank my colleague from wisconsin. My home state, you often hear me talk about this, is one of the hungriest states in the United States. And this budget only makes it worse. It will jeopardize the ability of veterans, seniors, the disabled and children to get the nutrition that they need to be healthy. Its estimated that approximately 900,000 veterans nationwide live in households that rely on s. N. A. P. In my district at Kirkland Air Force base, they have a
Screeria nigeria. And later the House Budget Committee works on its 2016 federal Budget Proposal. President obama signed an executive order that sets a goal to cut the Carbon Emissions by 40 over the next ten years. White house Senior Adviser brian dee briefed reporters on the executive action today. Later press secretary josh ernest addressed events in the middle east including recent comments from israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a palestinian state. This portion of the briefing runs about 25 minutes. Thanks. Ill just be brief about the announcement that the president made today and then happy to take questions, if youve got them. We just returned from the department of energy. The president signed an executive order, which sets a new goal for the federal government to reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions by 40 over the next decade. Thats in comparison to 2008 levels. The executive order also commits the government to increasing the share of electricity that the federal go
Saying lets give states the ultimate flexibility and to innovate according to our to their unique characteristics. In michigan, in the year 2000, we had between 1 and 8 and 1 in 9 michigan residents on medicaid. Now we have 1 in 4 on medicaid. As we notice across the country, over 30 of physicians are not even accepting new medicaid patients. And this is at the same time when federal reimbursement rates for medicaid are being cut across the country. So it is not a sustainable program. I think what this does is puts us in a far better path to innovate and to encourage healthy behaviors, and get on a more sustainable path for the future. And i yield back. I thank the gentleman. I yield the remainder of the time, mr. Westmoreland. Mr. Westerman, excuse me. Thank you. I will be brief. And just reiterate some of the things that have already said. In my state, not only do we we have not a fourth of the population getting medicaid services, but a third of the population getting medicaid servi
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