Find the best writers that we can and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world to a particular place, and i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that that have such a rer flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. So we bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the, to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or maybe 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way people like the nigerian writer or the caribbean writer, derek walcott, or the irish poet, seamus haney. The names go on. But along the way, we archive all of the by video and audio all of the people who have come th
Some of the contractors who built it are going to have some explaining to do. Were going to bring that to you live in just a few minutes. First we explain just how we got here. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal Website Health care. Gov. House republicans long opposed to the penaltys Affordable Care act are expected to grill the definiteliors of the system. The rollout is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with c. E. O. S of Insurance Companies at the white house. The initial high jam of users clogged the system, which failed early testing. The Vice President of the company that built the website will say today the Obama Administration acknowledged the website was not tested enough before going live. We did not expect or anticipate the scale of the problems that has occurred. Thats on us. Some democrats claim the investigation is political and the go
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar
Colleagues to work with us and work with these witnesses to get it right. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you for being here today. I have a series of quick questions i will like to get to. How many change orders have your received by estimate, either formally or informally leading up to the launch, and what function do they want you to perform . We have received approximately eight change orders. When was the most recent . I believe as recent as august of this year. Ok. I dont know the answer to that, but i think was a low number. Ok. Are you both making changes now with code in order to fix any of the socalled glitches or nonperformance issues question mark that would be yes. How many organizational boundaries between the piece of information traveling from the United States government to the web portal, how many boundaries, how many organizational boundaries, including the states and their access to information does that piece of art man cross does that piece of information cross . I