Actually say in the beer distributors pockets. It was public money that was supposed to go to promoting recycling but was instead winding up in the distributors pockets just because of an error in the way the law was constructed. They were very active in political campaigns and that loophole of what we knew about it for years and years and years was not corrected. My first term in the legislature in 2009 was the first year the legislature was publicly financed. I cant point to a direct correlation. But i think it was about two weeks after we were sworn in that we came in and corrected that loophole and those funds are returned to the public. And so thats a clear example of a special interest that had been able, to no pun intended, bottle up legislation. If you look at connecticuts record, particularly the last four years under governor malloy, weve really been a shining light for those of us in the Progressive Movement as a place where we can see policies that are folks elsewhere can o
Screeria nigeria. R Sherrod Brown who talks about the Affordable Care act. This is an hour and 15 minutes. So this session is the future of Medicaid Expansion and the Childrens Health Insurance Program. And what we want you to get out of this is the best messaging for promoting and protecting the Medicaid Expansion and extending funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program, which were just going to keep calling c. H. I. P. Let me take a moment to introduce our two speakers. On the far left is bruce leslie, the president of first focus, which is a fabulous childrens Advocacy Organization here in d. C. Many of you know bruce. Bruce has more than 20 years of Public Policy experience at all levels of government. And a demonstrated commitment to making childrens lives better. Bruce, we came to know bruce from his 12 years working on capitol hill on health care education, human services, childrens issues. Most recently he served as the Senior Health policy adviser on the Senate Finance
Contributions to the Intelligence Community analysis over the years, but i do have concns about whether i do have concerns if it is doing enough independent analysis, especially with terrorist attacks on u. S. Facilities overseas. I hope that he will be at the forefront of intelligence issues that concern the policymakers on matters involved in the state department. We have many embassies and missions and consulates that frankly, as we have found, they are no doubt unsecured. And i know that that is not directly under you in this position, but its an issue that we are looking at with your experience. And ca has worked with covert action that is vital to National Security and it carries risks, especially with the leaks of classified information. As you noted in your responses to the committees questions, unauthorized disclosures and requests for information can compromise sources and damage our relationships with one partners and decrease the effectiveness of intelligence activities. An
,000 in lifetime medicare taxes. Yet receives 250,000 in benefits. So is of taxes for 3 of benefits. Thats how medicare works. Thats for the typical family in ohio ar on the on or around the. When you multiply this, you can see why we have a totally unsustainable program because not enough money goes in to pay for the benefits coming out. Providing 3 in benefits under medicare fo for every 1 paid fr lowincome seniors is one thing. We want to make sure theyre taken care of. For the most part in their working years, those folks probably didnt earn enough to pay large medicare taxes and the program is designed to ensure that they do receive the medical coverage they would not otherwise get. But should upperincome seniors, seniors who are on medicare, receive benefits that far exceed what they pay into the system . Thats what happens now. Is that fair . I dont think so when the program is going bankrupt, when our kids and grandkids are facing massive tax increases to pay for a problem that
Freedom and no structure has been put in place to comply. Or is it that there is simplicity by looking the other way rather than just on structural things . I would be interested to hear the panels view on as. Thank you very much. Lets start with that. Okay. I do think the kuwaiti government is aware that this is going on. They may not know the extent of it and i dont know how deeply. But they certainly know that its going on. And i can say that with near certainty. So i will give you an example of one of the ways that it has been difficult for kuwait to do anything about it. One complication is that a lot of the people involved are part of this in one particular individual that you actually mentioned is a former parliamentarian. On twitter he said lets get people to the streets. And that sort of person when you are dealing with those is particularly difficult. And theres one example that i thought was very telling, given a great story of two different fundraising events that were held