Decreasing Small Business burdens act. This bill is about jobs and it is about Economic Growth. And it is about jobs on main street. Make no mistake about it. Essentially the same legislative package passed the house last fall by a bipartisan vote of 320102. If i may, i want to talk about title 8 of this legislation, which passed the house last april by voice vote and it contains language from a bill i introduced in the last congress h. R. 4167, the restoring proven financing for american employers act. I worked closely with my colleagues across the aisle to craft sound commonsense language to clarify the volcker rule regarding the treatment of collateralized loan obligations. Lets talk about the volcker rule and what it does. As currently structured this rule will substantially disrupt the market from c. L. O. s, a vital source of capital for companies that cannot access the Corporate Bond market. There ares two negative impacts of this rule. It will have a serious negative impact on
This is the administration that promised transparency. Whats going on here . Yeah. Gerri, thanks for having me. They appeared to double count the number of people who had dental coverage. Those people were counted as those who had Health Insurance and dental coverage. Its a big problem. It speaks to the level of misleading approaches that the administration is taking. We saw recently in grubergate, that they were willing to tell not full truths when came to getting the law passed. In trying to promote the law and make it look good, theyre relying on misleading approaches. Gerri well get to gruber in a second. I want to hang with the story. It came out just moments ago. Darrell issa saying, the claim this was only an accident strains credulity. Do you agree . Again, i hate to go back to gruber, theyve lost a lot of credibility because of gruber. I think the gruber thing makes the credibility problem more acute. I was talking to a former government economist this week, he said maybe ther
That seems to be the biggest topic today. What does a proportional response look like to the sony hack . And did sony make the right decision in pulling the movie . Or does that set a dangerous precedent when faced with this kind of situation . Well, let me address the second question first. Sonys a corporation. It, you know, suffered significant damage. There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. You know, in this interconnec d interconnected, digital world, there are going to be opportunities for hackers to engage in cyber assaults, both in the private sector and the Public Sector. Now, our first order of business is making sure we do everything to harden and prevent those kind of attacks from taking place. I stood up a Cyber Security inner agency team to look at everything that we could do at the government level to prevent these kind of attacks. Weve been coordinating with the pr
Hospital. Reporter thankfully he is back home. He was treated in south san jose and discharged a few hours ago. Now he is home with his owner who is still trying to understand why someone would beat his dog. When tony returned to his home in san jose yesterday, he realized it had been ransacked. What he saw next was even more disturbing. They were trying to beat him against the wall will. Tony took this video of bloody paw prints throughout his home. He feared his dog bobo had died. He finally found the pomeranian mix hiding on the patio. He was so bloody. We couldnt even recognize him. When i got home it was already dried. But it was sticky all over his face from the top of his head to his face and all his chest. And all his paws were bleeding. He said they stole jewelry, a laptop and other electronics. What shocked him most was what they did to his best friend boba. He said it appears the suspects went out of their way to kick or beat the 14pound dog. I am my dog is everything to me.
Form in rural and underserved areas. Cms recognizes challenges faced by beneficiaries and providers in rural areas. I look forward to working with hrsa and the congress delivering quality care to Medicare Beneficiaries regardless of their location. Thank you again and im happy to answer your questions. Thank you both. Let me answer a couple of questions and well do fiveminute rounds here. Mr. Morris, the department the budget the administration submitted would have cut your budget by 20 million. Did you ask for that cut . Mr. Chairman, we support the president s budget and the request that came forward. We think it supports the key programs for our office. Includes continued funding for the outreach program, the rural hospital flexibility program. For our policy and Research Activities and we think those are the programs that can be most effective meeting the needs. Where are you going to spend 20 million less than you are spending this year . The president s budget there is a decrease