This hearing will come to order. The subject of the hearing today is the state of the Health Insurance markets. I want to thank all the witnesses for your thoughtful testimony for traveling here. Its a beautiful city. You brought beautiful weather by the way. It is not quite as hot and humid as it normally is. I really do appreciate you coming here on a very important subject. Truth of the matter is, the reason i decided to run for the United States senate is because of the health care law. I come from the private sector. Understand marketplaces and i understand what works and what doesnt work, and i was concerned about the harmful effects. It is coming true. The problem that certainly i think all of us have had in evaluating the Patient Protection Affordable Care act is the complexity of the data. There is not just one overall metric that you can point to and say hey, you know, it is not working. There are some metrics, i think some powerful ones. So you know, absent that very simplis
Agenda but the residents got their voices heard. We have another crew inside the city council and theyll gather more information and theyve been able to speak with the city water director. Well bring you that at 10 00. Impairment made have played a part in the that left two dead early this morning. Witnesses saw the driver an tried to stop him and he was stumbling and slurring his words. He said i need money to get home and he starts talking but it sounds gibberish, you dont understand people much when you drink. He just, it just happened and he got onto the loop 101 and crashed into another car going the wrong way. The crash killed the other driver as well. Their names havent been released. Another wrong way accident raises the same questions again. What can be done to stop these crashes and how can the state keep you and your family safe . What is the ta doing is putting up more and more of these giant do not enter wrong way signs along freeway off ramps. The goal is to make it absol
This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo
This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo
Approval with possible modifications of the meeting set forth below, regular meeting of april 14, tweplt 16. I move to approve. Theres been a motion to approve the minutes. Second. And its been properly seconded. Any comments from any of the commissioners . Is there any Public Comment . Seeing no Public Comment, we are now ready to vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye. All those opposed . Motion is carried unanimously. Item 2, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction not appearing on todays agenda. Is there any general Public Comment on matters not i stress not appearing on the agenda . Seeing no Public Comment, we will now proceed. I am going to claim the privilege of the chair and move the president s report from its regular order to now. There are a couple things that i want to say and i thought that would be the appropriate forum and if i waited until after the next regular agenda item, they would be superfluous. For some of you they may be superfl