Commissioners, way back in the year 2000, some of us stakeholders used to regularly meet at 77 to discuss our energy issues, and we looked at the regionalwide. At that time, unfortunately, sf puc was intent to putting some combustion turbines, you know, to the detriment of what were talking today. The way i want it look at this is that we seem to be talking in generalities. And really what we should be talking is line item by line item, so that whoever does or pays the bills in the homes, knows exactly what they are getting. Now recently some of you all who Pay Attention to the news, you all notice what hurricane some of our folks havent got their electricity and its been weeks. I say this because in all those deliberations, one of the things we have to Pay Attention to is who has proprietary jurisdiction over the transmission lines, who has proprietary jurisdiction to do the maintenance and how much of this information is being deliberated. Now, i have a some set of chart over here an
Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Tweet, cspanwj is our handle. You can also email us journal cspan. Org. Post story this morning, congress to pass 1. 1 trillion spending bill. The first votes on the plan are expected today. 48 hours after negotiators introduced the 1582 page spending agreement. The house is scheduled to vote on the measure today. The senate plans to vote on it around noon today. Live coverage on cspan of that vote for the house and tune into cspan 2 for the vote in the senate. Here is what john boehner had to say about moving quickly to vote on the legislation. The bill was posted last night. To thehlights went out members offices last night. Frankly, if we had time, i wouldve i would like to have more time. We are in a situation where the government is going to run out of money. We are going to have to move a shortterm cr. I think, under the circumstances, what were doing is appropriate. Host john boehner addressing concerns from many outside group
So, ladies and gentlemen, and congressman, thank you very much for that conversation. Heres how were going to proceed for the remainder of our our. We will engage in a short and brief conversation up here. Ive a couple of questions im going to pick up on based on your comments this morning and then we will open the microphone for questions from the floor. So be thinking about the questions that you want to ask and when the time comes well ask you to raise your hand and do our usual procedure of wait for the microphone and identify your identify yourself. Let me start out with a couple thoughts of your very useful description of both while youre doing what youre doing and what you hope to do. Theres a lot on worth the effort peace if you will. I think he made the case very strongly for why its important or critical. Its a little harder though to talk about the possibilities, not necessary the possibilities of undertaking the effort of the possibilities of achieving results. How are you
Or a newcomer from a distant land, the complexity of the medical system in the United States is difficult to comprehend. Gerard anderson, Health Policy specialist, has a simple way to explain it. Gerard anderson i take them to a grocery store, and i show them all the different cereals, and say,e want toave oicen america. It doesnt seem to give us Better Health re, it doesnt seem to give us lower costs, but it does give us choice, and we value choice above everything. From a practical point of view, the first decision many consumers are confronted with is how to finance their health care. The choices are simply to pay for it themselves, or to enroll in a private or Public Health insurance plan. A lot is said about the marketplace of health care. Well, for half of people who are getting their health plan through an employer, their employer offers such a narrow range of plans that they the consumer feel that they are cut off from options they really would like to have. Many employers only
Who has a diagnosed Mental Illness. There are many, many ways in which this issue was responded to, but in particular in the faith community. The association for Mental Illness. And cami have faithbased initiatives. There are other synagogues and other churches and other faithbased groups who deal with this issue in their own particular way. This morning, wed like to invite you into this serious and important conversation, with members of congregation roto sholom. In particular, senior rabbi Stacy Freedman and joann foreman who is at congregation shalom. Thank you so much rabbi and joanne for being here. Thank you for having us. Rabbi freedman. Why dont we jump in and ask you, why did you consider this particular issue to be so important to your particular synagogue and to the Jewish Community at large . Thank you for asking. When this program began, or when we decided that it was a real need, i had been at the congregation for about 20 years. And increasingly in the months preceding t