Was the hardest decision i had ever had to make in my air force career. I did not shy away from it out because it was another commandery and i knew the individual. Potentially longterm promising career. Of my legal advice advisor. I sought the advice of my vice and a few other trusted commanders. Process, i did not rush through it. I tossed and turned with it. In the end, i made the decision were i lost faith, trust, and confidence in his ability to command. It did not matter that i knew and seemed to be very new but when the allegations substantiated on some of the things that he had , there was no question that it was the right thing to do. The command climate that it set when the commander was removed. I did not know the full context of what occurred in that. Ituation it probably should have been brought to attention sooner. Objective. Can be they can take all of those things into account. They wrestle with it day in and day out. What do we need for good order and discipline in the
Next year or so, there are going to be ramifications for that. They relate to implementation of the law. They tie everybodys hands because we cant get agreement on moving forward. We need to move forward and fix the things that need to be fixed. The problems in the launch at the federal level scared away a lot of early adopters, particularly in the business community. Thats not a good thing. The federal government has done a great job recovering and theyre moving forward really well. But we have to acknowledge that there was some damage done in the context of the marketing and outreach. And that marketing and outreach piece has to be addressed. And we have to redouble efforts in that area. It is real private sector kind of Customer Service that we need to provide. Because were providing services to a range of people. Youve got the medicaid population. Youve got middle income and upper income individuals getting tax credits or buying as 100 of the cost. And then you have Small Businesse
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , february 3, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable thomas e. Petri to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. Pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2 00 p. M. Today. Will have more state of the state speeches for you to for you. Today, Oklahoma Republican governor mary fallin will be delivering her speech. That will be live at 1 30 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan3. A specialtoday, Election Debate for the 13th Congressional District seat in florida. Filled,the seat to be held by the late representative bill young. He passed away in october of last or after serving 40 years in congress. Last year after serving 40 years in congre
Airlines, what have you. Theres two things that happen. Once a commission interests itself in a particular area, puts a sign out that says open for business, which is basically what we did when we did the open Internet Order, right . What happens . Firms realize, oh, i dont get to make money looking at customers and making investments, i make money by going to the regulators and getting them to favor me and disfavor others. The phrase economists use for this is rent seeking. And thats what it does, it opens up rent seeking. For 30 years we never had any complaints about interconnection. Since 2010 weve had a number of complaints. Why . Open for business. The second thing that happens, and this is, i think, the most dangerous part of it, is even though the commissioners may say, well, we want to limit how much we regulate, okay . That wont happen. They will be under constant pressure to expand the regulatory writ. And weve seen this happen now. Level iii, for example, in 2010 said lets
Always taking advantage of that. Thanks and thanks for the opportunity to speak about the amazing young people that, as the president and ceo of student veterans of america, that i get to represent. And so to start with a little bit of background on student veterans of america or sva, started six years ago on 20 campuses because when student vets were transitioning they saw that the College Environment or higher ed was not prepared for student vets. We were older, we were much more mature. We had a different world view than just coming out of high school than say the traditional student. And so these vets met in chicago and we started on 20 campuses six years ago and today we are on more than is,000 campuses representing those 1,000 chapters with more than 400,000 student vets being serviced by our policy, our advocacy and the work we do in delivering programs. I was very fortunate to be helped by general pace and katy who is here with wall street war fighters and i had a personal sitd