Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event
Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s
850 formally submitted comments. In december of 2015, the working Group Released a comprehensive document. In october of last year we issued a legislative discussion draft. Soon after that we finalized four of our policy proposals in its 2017 medicare physician fee schedule rule, and twon provisions from our discussion draft where included in the 21st century cures act which president obama signed into law this past december. In other words, sefrlt working groups policies have already been enacted and were working to get rest signed into law fully implemented. Toward that end, we introduce the latest version of the chronic care act, the bill that encompasses the working groups proposals in april. The legislation currently has 17 bipartisan cosponsors and has been endorsed by numerous organizations in the Healthcare Community. Today, is the latest step in our in our efforts. The next step will come later this week, as weve noticed a markup for thursday morning. I want to thank my collea