Flags to remain at half staff until monday. It is friday morning. We are going to take your calls and reflections on Nelson Mandela. Our phone lines are open. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. And our line for independents, 202 5853882. Mail,an send us an e journal cspan. Org or you can send us a tweet, cspanwj. [video clip] i am not a saint unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. I am one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from Nelson Mandelas life. My First Political action, the that thing i ever did involves politics was a protest against apartheid. His works and his writings. The day he was released from prison, a gave me a sense of what human beings can do when they are guided by their hopes and not their fears. Globe, iany around the cannot imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set. As i live, i will do what i can to learn from him. President as he paid tribute to Nelson Mandela and the tributes coming in from
Sorry i had to excuse myself during the testimony. A couple points. One is i like myself and a handful of other staffers make sure that we were enrolled in our new Health Care Plan because we couldnt get confirmation. Fortunately i got confirmation that im finding out like everybody else i have less coverage at a higher cost. The concern is as it is exhibited by the constituents on Medicare Advantage we will see the same thing of her in Medicare Advantage and so i think that this is a timely hearing because its like Everything Else in this new movement of health care. Everybody is going to get less coverage and higher cost, no matter who you are or where you are in this country because of these before. I was hearing the committee went secretary sebelius affirmed that the fact that they double counted the 500 million. You can just check the transcript and check the testimony. It took five minutes to get out of. About in the end, she said we double counted because we had a 500 billion of
Do. We all support that. One of the things and youre very right about the people who dont want to work. Those make it hard for the rest, but we are not going after those who are fraudulently accessing the fund. Thats something we also need to look at is get people off their duffs and not create a dynasty of people that are on unemployment forever or social service. God bless you, all of you. Good luck in your future. Thank you. Thank you very much, congresswoman napolitano. I would like to ask for questions one point we should know that the work that the law center is doing, and i want to single out chris owens to say what melt has been doing to end that discrimination against people unemployed and unemployed for a long time. You dont have to add insult to injury for people. You dont have to tell them theirs dogging it when they are trying to make their way. With that, i recognize congresswoman moore, congresswoman spear and we have congresswoman maloney. Weve got to move fast. We dont
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They wanted to use it to change the power situation on the ground. The president did not indicate that was the purpose of force in this instance. , theu look towards iran president s distinction between using force for the purpose of getting red of getting rid of weapons of mass of mass since an important met sends an important message. Have divergent syriasts with respect to and to the assad regime. We want to make sure that whatever happens in syria that we do not have an al qaeda like situation. You have an influx of foreign so you have a toxic of theseria now extreme elements. Are you hopeful for the geneva process in syria . Do see the russian collaboration as a step in the right direction in trying to bring the parties together to end of the war . I think most people recognize the only solution to the challenge in syria is through some kind of negotiated settlement. To the extent that we are trying to get people around the table to negotiate a settlement, that would be an importa