Goods or Something Like that. It is effective but just a different level of intensity. All right well, we have a lot of green cards here to which we were not able to get for which i apologize. But i think that also reflects the level of engagement of our consumers of Health Policy information here. Thank you for spending your beautiful friday afternoon inside a very cool hearing room helping us grapple with one of the most multifacetted set of problems in Health Policy these days. Thanks to anthem and the National Consumer league for helping us think through this topic and assemble a great panel. Speaking of said panel help me thank this panel for some wonderful discussion. [ applause ] well come back to this topic in september. Thanks very much. Tonight ot the communicators, Michael Oreilly on key issues before the fcc like Net Neutrality and regulating the internet and influence on policy making making. When an item is made before an open Commission Meeting and presented to the commi
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During us from capitol hill is nancy, senior Congressional Correspondent for bloomberg. Tell us about what the president requested for 2018 and what were his Top Priorities. The president stuck with the overall number in the loss, the budget control act, requesting that basically a little bit over a trillion dollars, 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for but with in and that number we really parted from the budget control act numbers and he requested a lot more for defense programs about 54 billion for securityrelated programs and covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. Thats a violation of the budget control act there but more than that its a very politically unpopular. Yes, members really like the defense number increase but they dont like taking it out of defense programs, agriculture, cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs, cut 15 . Labor, health, education rams, cut similarly. State department programs, cut tremendously. Cong
Capitalizing on extraordinary opportunities. Merica is leading the world we need to relearn compromise and take the fight them down. I know john kelly very well. He was a tremendous division commander, to star commander of Marine Forces during the search. Surge. I have to think this weekend he is sitting at home or in the white house trying to figure out how to turn down the volume and get this behind us and focus on what really is important to the country overall. That this week. Voice of seen as this reason in the white house, but did he lose some of that authority . Again, my hope is that the john kelly we all know and respect whose Family Experience ,hat personal loss of their son the last full measure of devotion as Abraham Lincoln termed it, went through that. I just have to think that he is thinking how can we turn down the volume, how can we move forward and focus the administration and the country on the issues that are preventing us from capitalizing on extraordinary opportun
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