And so that is in progress. What what we do already, craig, is every two years, we have a three star flag officer review, if you will, the program, coordinated with our director of our Strategic Systems program, ssp. That Strategic Systems program are responsible for all operations, if you will, handling of of our Nuclear Weapons themselves. So, that has been going on. Theres a drum beat of that, as admiral richardson said, in his program. We have a similar drum beat. Now, we are going to take the results of our most recent, which is months old, we are going to take the results of the schlesinger report, you remember that from a few years ago. Were going to take the results of the admiral donald report, if you remember that also was a few years ago, look and see what was directed in that, review that, did we do what it said, how are we doing on that, and then were going to do an internal assessment coordinated with that. So, what has been looked at before . How is that going . Is it st
Quite an important factor. So thats the second point. The third point id make is c. B. O. Themselves says theres a tremendous amount of uncertainty. A lot of the report stems from, as tax credits phase out, what does that do to peoples incentives . Theres a literature on the earned income tax credit that has generally found that the phaseout of the earned income tax credit doesnt affect labor supply. C. B. O. Is assuming that in this context, people will have a much better understanding of these phaseouts and alter their behavior in response to it in a much greater degree than weve seen with the earned income tax credit. I expect c. B. O. Would say theres uncertainty around that and expect thats one of the many assumptions that one could debate in this report. You dont dispute or do you dispute the conclusion, one of the main conclusions that weve talked about already, that some people would choose to go part time so as not to lose the subsidies that are a part of the design of the a.
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell im not sure if you have a fax machine at home, not Many Americans do anymore. Neither do a lot of Small Businesses. So it seems a bit a odd to tell Small Businesses they need to fax in enrollment foamplet for be obamacare for obamacare. That is what the Obama Administration is now doing. I might paraphrase the president , the 1980s called and they want their Health Policy back. Now, to be fair, snail mail is also an option and it looks like the president s people will try to have the issue fixed soon despite passing the law more than three years ago. But then again this is the same president who told us that obamacare is working the way its supposed to, president obama said, and that those who already have Health
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome our witness, acting director botacelli, this is the first time he appeared before the Appropriations Committee and i appreciate you coming to testify and thank you for your service. The office of National Drug control policy is charged with extremely Different Task of coordinating multiple efforts to it address many different drug related issues at home and abroad. In addition, you administer some of the very effective Drug Prevention and enforcement Grant Programs. And today the committee will examine the office of National Drug control policies fiscal year 2015 budget request along with your efforts to develop and coordinate our nations drug policies. The budget request submitted by the president has interesting priorities within this subcommittees jurisdiction. While the administration is requesting and increase of over 1 billion for the irs, increase over 500 million for the gsa, the administration has recommended a decrease be
Point of view. That is extremely important. Can we be more transparent about how they conduct that activity . I think the answer has been yes. We are certainly trying to be as you heard say its difficult to do it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has established a web site which i believe is new for them. They are trying to post opinions there. We are working hard with them to try to find opinions to redact, find ways to redact the opinions and posts them. The Intelligence Community has established a blog on tumbler which i just learned about recently called icing on the record so you can just google i see on the record and you will find redacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court pleadings and we are working hard to put additional matters up there. I cant say that they are selfexplanatory. They are written in densely blocks of redact the text. Another issue that we have to think about is not only the need for a person to have clearance and the ability to review things