Any matters that would present any potential conflict. Chairman hatch do you know of any person or any reason, personal or otherwise, that would in any way prevent you om honorably discharging the responsibilities to the office to which you have been nominated . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch do you agree without reservation to respond anyreasonable inquiry reasonable summons to appear and testify before any nor any duel constituted committee of the congress if you are confirmed . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch you are willing to do that . Ms. Verma i am willing to do that. Chairman hatch ok. Finally, do you commit to provide a prompt response in writing to any questions addressed to you by any senator on this committee . Ms. Verma i do. Chairman hatch thank you. Let me now get into just some questions. I know you are aware of the historic bipartisan medicare access and chip reauthorization called i whats macra. Among other things the law got rid of the dreaded s. G. R. Formula
Any matters that would present any potential conflict. Chairman hatch do you know of any person or any reason, personal or otherwise, that would in any way prevent you om honorably discharging the responsibilities to the office to which you have been nominated . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch do you agree without reservation to respond anyreasonable inquiry reasonable summons to appear and testify before any nor any duel constituted committee of the congress if you are confirmed . Ms. Verma i do not. Chairman hatch you are willing to do that . Ms. Verma i am willing to do that. Chairman hatch ok. Finally, do you commit to provide a prompt response in writing to any questions addressed to you by any senator on this committee . Ms. Verma i do. Chairman hatch thank you. Let me now get into just some questions. I know you are aware of the historic bipartisan medicare access and chip reauthorization called i whats macra. Among other things the law got rid of the dreaded s. G. R. Formula
Using sound device and are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for when going up may be asked to leave the room. These, no phone set on vibrate because my phone interference to the board respectively request they be turned off. Item for approval of minutes of the january 17 regular meeting and the february 7 special meeting so moved. Second. Any public on and on the Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, say nay. Hearing none, that passes item 5 to medications ive known for you today item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members director nolan by the great concern the failure of the administration to include the money for the electrification of caltrans into our members are representing us on it. Director ramos on the caltrain body and director reiskin on the board. Later a much other report back on what the next ups possibilities Going Forward could do members agree to that . Its really unfortunate tha
Hard work on coming to consensus about what this private right of action should look like. So i just want to say a couple of programs because i dont know if it is unpress dented dented but it is rare. And i want to talk about why we decided to go this route. We are basically strengthening what was already a very strong ordinance. And by taking this step, of creating a private right of action for individuals or nonprofits, serving immigrant populations to hold the city accountable, if the city or snee act tore in the city violates these protections that we are creating, it is an extraordinary act, and we are doing this because of the fact that Muslim Community in San Francisco and across the country, and the immigrant community in general in the u. S. Is facing dangerous discrimination by our federal government as we speak. And with this ordinance and the amendments we are sending a strong and clear message to the Trump Administration that San Francisco is dead serious about doing what
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