The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
Use by executive land holding agencies. In your opinion do you believe that gsa has done everything in its power to give life to the directives embodied in section 6409 which you referenced in your testimony of middle class tax relief act . Have they done everything they can . Mr. Chairman, i do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, im a former administrator myself of the federal agency and if i had implemented something too poorly that congress instructed me to do id be embarrassed. Theres an executive order by the president of the United States correcting gsa to move faster to get these contracts together and to date nothing has been done. Three years after Congress Enact this legislation, progress has been slow gsa hasnt been proactive. Proactive. I think our members are having to negotiate for each and every site individually just as they have in the past. Gsa has not implemented the intent of congress and we cant wait three more years for whats needed i think today. Theres a
The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net
Mr. Royce mr. Speaker, mr. Royce mr. Speaker, morph the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 1698, as amended. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Royce i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include any extraneous material the speaker pro tempore the gentleman will suspend. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1698, a bill tokes tend sanctions against iran with respect to the Ballistic Missile program of ran, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. Royce, and the gentleman from new york, mr. Engel, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california. Mr. Royce mr. Speaker, im also going to ask unanimous consent to introduce the speaker pro tempore into t letters that are exchanged with other committees of jurisdiction on this bill. The speaker pro tempore without objection. So order
Good morning and welcome to the transportation, board, april, 11, could you call the roll commissioner breed. Present. Cohen. Absent. Far ril chl absent. Kim . Absent. Fewer. Absent. Commissioner rohnen. Safai. Present. Tang is absent and we have a kwar um. Could we have a motion to excuse commissioner cohen . And we will take that without objection, and would you please read the second item on the agenda. Item, 2, Citizen Advisory Committee report this is is an information item. Thank you, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I want to start out by saying, on march 24th, two members of the cac and myself and tanen received a tour, and with one group remaining, and it was the Planning Department staff that have prepared the email notification system. I am glaed to see that is getting fixed. Thank you. Item seven, most of the questions in the request, regarding the brt will be resolving around the lawsuit and so we, for that reason, we didnt get a lot of up date on