Setting up the obamacare exchanges, and we remember what happened when the web site that was the portal through which people would sign up for the exchanges, failed. Well, it was all hands on deck. All hands on deck. Well, i commend the administration for its timely response to that problem, but by comparison, with the tragedies that were reading about in the newspapers from the 40 veterans who died in phoenix reportedly waiting for treatment at a v. A. Clinic or hospital when put on a secret waiting list, i dont see that sense of urgency coming from the administration or from this congress, for that matter. Now, i do commend senator sanders and senator burr who are the chair and Ranking Members of the Veterans Affairs committee, the senate for having secretary shinseki and others today to begin the process of peeling the layers of the onion so we can get to the truth. And i realize the administration has to balance competing priorities. But in my view, there are few priorities more im
As soon as they experience it. Them as quickly as possible and we can protect others as quickly as possible. Protection liability is constructed i am not a lawyer, i cannot do find that in the legal terms that you all need to put into the law, but i we arewould be ready and willing to help with ethical assistance on trying to define precisely what it ought earlierlike as we tried with the last attempt to write the legislation in this body. Mr. Olson . I dont have anything to add on that cyber legislation. Thank you. Lets talk a bit about the lone wolves, american citizens, in many cases, that become radicalized, in some cases by traveling abroad and being exposed to jihadist activities and other cases being radicalized here, yogurt over the internet and in no communities. I worry about that, and i know you do, too. Share with us what you are doing in trying to address that threat and how you are working together and how we can help you. Let me go ahead and start. In addition to the gre
We are looking at what using across the country in relation to the laws affect the marijuana. Of businesses will start with some Opening Statements of myself and other members that wish to be recognized. Finish with that, we have two panels this morning. We have the delicate from the district. Them first. From then we have a panel of four witnesses that we will hear from wethe second panel will stop gather today, and i will start out by saying i read the opening and in fulfilling an important responsibility of the investigativee and oversight role of the committee. By the peoplere not only to legislate on some manners but also to investigate the oversight to roll in the house of representatives. To be the senior member, having served longer than anyone else on the committee. It fulfills an Important Role in keeping government accountable and responsive. Todays hearing relates to the District Of Columbia. I know there have been some public pronouncements of what is this committee doing
Work. Exert their efforts. Thats where they want to concentrate. Thats where when you have a bill that comes to committee, you can have maybe 200, 300 amendments in committee. And the chairman and the Ranking Member thats the name we give to the person with the most seniority in the minority can sit down together and sort through these amendments. And out of the 200, there are probably 100 that nobody would really in their right mind offer. And out of the remaining ones, youll find that there are people on both sides that have very similar ideas on how to solve that problem. And you get those people to sit down together, take a look at all the amendments that are similar to that and see if they cant come up with a single amendment that will solve that part of the problem. And you know what . They do. Now, it might not be 100 of what they want. Its probably again only 80 of what they want. But its something they can all agree on. Heres the really magnificent part that helps it get throu
Strategy, the strategy of cutting back on purchases collapses. Argument, which is that comcast might be able to strike a Better Bargain thanks to its increased size. That is far from clear. The stakes are higher for espn compared to today because espn ises more revenue, but that true for comcast. The stakes are higher for comcast as well as more customers complained to cancel their service. Such a musthave with programmers that again special power. The third analogy is that comcast is just like microsoft. The idea here is that netflix and other online video providers will be undermined. This deserves careful attention because i think we can all agree that preserving innovation and competition is very important. This third analogy seems wrong to me as well. For one thing, the cost of strategies is quite high. There are existing protections under the earlier nbc merger conditions for online video that would be extended to time warner, which could be thought of as a benefit to the deal. W