I call to order this hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety, insurance and data security. As the title suggests, this subcommittee exercises wide jurisdiction over a diverse range of topics. This will be our first hearing this congress to examine matters pertaining to insurance, specifically, that of Insurance Fraud. Thank you to our expert witnesses who came here to join us today. Insurance fraud is a major concern not only for insurers,we who bear the costs of fraudulent claim payouts, but also consumers, who see these costs passed on to them in the form of higher premiums. This hearing will examine the scope of Insurance Fraudst atlarge in the United States and address nationwide fraud trends across a variety of Insurance Markets, including property and casualty, and Life Insurance. In addition, well discuss the tools available to states,s insurers, and consumers to protect themselves against these crimes. The Insurance Industry has an enormous pre
Real connection with the reader, and i think that this sort of the Creative Exchange between you and you can feel that theres a real creative roes is going on. You feel it, too. Of course. So you feel like youre a part of it. I want to ask elia. We will go to the questions from the audience in a moment, but i want to ask you a question thats something that a lot of people here think about a lot and thats the question about how do we counter russian propaganda and its something that people have been thinking about now for a couple of years and there are thoughts about how do we organize it and i think sometimes people think of medusa as being a force that counteracts the propaganda, the kremlin propaganda. So what are your thoughts on that . We have the syncronizations a lot and it is in europe right now because every russians in European Countries watch television and its an event and its a problem, but i think the propaganda issue is a bad issue and and its bad from the government and
Reactors i got so what . Well two big so whats. One big so what you cant get them to give up reprocessing if they have gas graphite reactors because processing that spent fuel is integral to that fuel cycle. You cant leave water forever. Them giving it up gave us a basis for which to continue to insist that there be no reprocessing on the peninsula. So if you knew a little bit, it was a real break through and then, of course, the reactors were plutonium production reactors in ways water reactors are not. Water reactors do produce plutonium and we can talk about that if you want but its safer and more proliferation resistant. The deal with the North Koreans was complicated. Not as complicated as the irans deal. We had the North Koreans doing thing we wanted them to do. Compared to not doing a deal and looking at maybe 30 weapons a year production for the North Koreans, compare that with no production this looked pretty good. Now a couple of little asterisks here. One asterisk is right i
Passenger lists. And get other nations to. An effort to spot terrorists on the move meantime, mr obama warned americans against fear and to take in 10 thousand Syrian Refugees sot president obama no super 1 181 23 all of us must show that america is strengthened by people of every faith and every background hollande and france are taking in 30 thousand Syrian Refugees president obama goes to paris next week for a climate summit. It was not postponed, the two president s agreed, to send a message to isis that were not afraid im Steve Handelsman at the white house , now back to you. Turkish president erdogan today made a statement following the downing of that russian plane. Erdogan said that no one should doubt that turkey made all efforts to prevent the incident, warning the russian plane ten times in five minutes. He said the turkish jets acted within the rules of engagement when the russian warplane violated turkish airspace. He said turkey supports opposition groups in syria that wa
I was not the chairman when i came up and it is not permanent work. When i became chairman of h. R. Staffing were taken to make sure be redoing more collaborative vacation in psp like are you still advance it not . It is not within right now. It is in part in the spirit it is completely positive and we have been working with Stakeholder Community through an Advisory Panel on the issue of the single window and imports. We are running a pilot that will come out in a few and we are trying to get it right. We are having this exact collaborations. Okay, my time is out. Ive got one other question, but i will submit the question to you in writing. I thank you can yield back. A chair now recognizes the gentleman said from texas for five minutes. I think the chair. A special welcome to a former house colleague. Good to see you again. I want to talk about nanotechnology. As in 1985 graduate of Rice University in houston, texas we are proud that two of our professors robert crowe and Richard Smal