The information that we have and realize theres some truth behind it. Walk us through your routine. Oklahoma is not the easiest place to get to from washington d. C. How much are you in washington . Whats your daily routine here in d. C. . When you go back to the district. Well, Oklahoma City, it is, you know in the middle of the country, and it does take time to get here. I will be here not every weekend do i go home. Some weekends theres just things to do. If theres a particular large build in mark up and committee 600, 700 pages long that takes time to read, so i try to do the diligence, what i was elected to do. Other times you know, i was a National Speaker for eight years with premier Speakers Bureau traveling all over the country, and i still do some of that, but the rules have changed on what that is but i still get around. I was in missouri this past weekend speaking. So i wont get home every weekend, but i try to get home about two weekends a month and then ill be here, the r
Stops and things like that. I would think shell take questions from some of the people shes meeting with because shes doing sort of round table discussions. So in the Community College today shes doing a discussion i think with the educators and students. Tomorrow shell be having some sort of business round table. So i got to think thats going to you know, create the opportunity for people to ask her questions and share with her their concerns. Weve kbt a couple of minutes left be Catherine Lucey and shira center. If you want to ask them questions about 2016 well try to get to as many calls as we can. Jimmy is in panama city florida, line for independents. Good morning, jimmy. Caller good morning. I have a quick comment. Why would anyone vote for someone who would all over themselves. I am clinton supporters. And weve done well with them. And for a woman its not problem with me. I think she would be a good president and im going to vote for her. Thank you. Hey jimmy, are you still with
Host you served formally as an abbasid or two switzerland inlet as an ambassador to switzerland in liechtenstein. In looking at this relationship between the u. S. And iran, where do things stand now . Guest i am optimistic. In 2009, the two big missions were of secrecy. To get the swiss government to agree to the enhanced sanctions. Switzerland was at risk of being the whole of the donut in europe, the place iran would go to trade oil. And we have and our argument was we have to find some way to bring it to the table. When we finally bring them to the table and we get a Framework Agreement, this is a great step forward. We are where ahead of where we were just two years ago. Host the issue of iran will land first and foremost next week with the senate. I want to play you some of the comments from senator bob corker, this set the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his concern over the deal expressed on Fox News Sunday yesterday. [video clip] one of the proposals bei
We will really give the employees a 1. 5 increase. That is wrong. Getting ceos to understand thereat people around the Organization Need to understand it to do their jobs better and well. It is not poorly intended, it is actually well intended. They are tried to do the right thing for the company. These people need to be taken care of. We cannot continue to do what we have been doing to them. When you send that message the 1. 5 is not sneak into the operating plan. The last time it did, i said to my team we will move it back up to 3. 5 and the rest will come out of the executive incentive pool. If we find it throughout the year, i will put it back. Ceos asked, they will not find it. If they dont say here is what we need to do is a company, they have the courage to send that message, an 11 billion operating budget, there are other things we can do to solve that problem. We need to do it. 26 million out of 11 million is a number we could solve for 11 billion is a number we can solve for.
Nice to see you. Melissa attias is making her first visit to newsmakers. Dr. Wall, we can we start our program about the expected consideration of what is called a doc fix. I know your organization does not prefer that term but i am sure many cspan viewers have heard that in washington parlance. Tell us what this issue is. Dr. Wah we are talking about Sustainable Growth rate which has been in place for a long time. It was originally passed in 1997. It was thought to be an effort to control the costs of the Medicare Program. It resulted in about 17 patches over the last 10 or 12 years. Each one of those paid for the one year period, not the committed interest, like a credit card, on past things. By kicking the can down the road each year, congress accumulated interest. Now april 15, if the senate does not act, there will be a 21 cut in physician payments, which is the acute related interest of all these years of kicking the can down the road. I want to talk about the term doc fix. As a