The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
You here on the hill and in the hill surrounds are interested to come out to hear about what scholarship has to tell us about the dynamics of change in American Families, change in americas socioeconomic class structure, what it all has to do with child well being and whether or not policy can leverage change to our good. Id like to thank the annie e. Casey foundation, particularly the director of policy reform for being such great partners to us and making this segment happen. Our sincere gratitude to senator casey and senator scott for their interest in these issues and for being gracious enough to sponsor us here today. As you probably discerned by now, we were in the middle of a little bit of an audiovisual challenge, so i had to show you a very gracious taped greeting from senator tim scott. I could play it from my laptop with the volume turned the whole way up facing you, but i think that would be foolish at this point, so i wont. But i will ask jared from senator caseys office t
Showers with a few thunderstorms this morning will quickly race to the coast by sunrise well start to clear the sky before noon. It will be windy and warmer with highs in the lower to middle 60s. Sunny and dry over the next several days with daytime highs in the middle to upper 60s. Overnight lows from the upper 30s to middle parts of the south. A tornado from this funnel cloud touched down in parts of northwest florida, monday. Several homes and business in the town of mcdavid were damaged and thousands were left without power. Schools will be closed in that area today because of the storms. Damage as night fell over the area near century, florida. You can see numerous homes were nearly leveled, power lines and trees were down in this particular neighborhood. One woman had to be rescued from her home. Its devastating, i tell ya. Ive been through but it wasnt as bad as this. Rescue crews say three people had to be taken to hospitals for minor treatment. Remember anytime Severe Weather
Spender of the top 3. Coming in at 600thousand dollars on tv spots. Ted cruz has spent a significant bit more right around 1. 3 million. And then marco rubio, battling out it for second place in the polls, comes out on top with dollars spent at close to 1. 6 million dollars. This totals about 3. 5 million, but i want to reiterate, this is just a small percentage of spending. Across the state, Political Action committees have spent nearly triple the amount campaigns have in the same amount of time. Your forecast is a huge turnaround from what we had yesterday. Von gaskin is in the Weather Center now with a closer look. A fast moving clipper will deliver a few scattered showers this evening into very early wednesday morning with lows near 40 degrees. The sun is back wednesday through sunday with warming temperatures by this weekend. Back out on the campaign trail governor jeb bush making stops in richland and wednesday morning with lows near 40 degrees. The sun is back wednesday through