Friday on cspan2 and cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house will be in order. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. The white house. The supreme court. And Public Policy events from washington d. C. And around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1978. Cspan is brought by the local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a hearing on Agriculture Research and the status of the implementation of the 2018 farm bill. We hear about relocating parts of the Agriculture Department to the kansas city region. This hearing was held by the Senate Agriculture committee. Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Over two years ago we kicked off the 2018 farm bill, and that whole process was by holding a hearing at Kansas State University of our Land Grant Institution. A few months later there was a hearing in this room. What we heard from the officials representatives fro
This. But first, with some background, heres Eyewitness News reporter rob nelson. Its a move that would impact about 400,000 residents in about 180,000 apartments throughout new york city a national ban on indoor smoking in Public Housing across the country. If thats what they need to do to keep everybody healthy, from getting cancer and all that other stuff, thats understandable. Federal Officials Say the move would not only cut back on the impact of Secondhand Smoke, but would also lower buildingmaintenance costs and reduce the risk of fires. Still, critics say its just another example of government overreach. Its a benefit in one way. But its an intrusion in your personal life and your privacy. Smoking is already prohibited in the hallways and lobbies of publichousing buildings in the city. But this latest move would be a step further, leaving some to wonder about how to possibly enforce it across the citys more than 300 publichousing complexes. In a statement, the or nycha, said. I
Clearly if these prices persist for a long time, then the reductions in capex that we are seeing are clearly going to start coming in down the road. Right now i think were looking carefully, were being prepared with analyses for alternative pathways forward. Right now consumers are having the benefit. Excellent. Ok, a question over there and the mike will be made available. Please identify yourself. Im a Public Policy scholar here at the wilson center. Can you talk about what the role is for biofuels to remain in the future energy mix . Well, i think the first of all, we certainly continue to invest in biofuels. In fact, just in i guess it was october i was pleased to be in kansas for what is now the largest commercial functioning biorefinery in the country. Our loan program helped put that into place. So if i go back to the what i mentioned about our entry in this book, first of all, actually i think its important that sorry. Let me go back a step. As we celebrate our incredible incre
Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I cant thank you enough for being here today, the sacrifices that you have made. I pray that the sacrifices that you and your entire family made will make us a better nation at the end of the day. I think most that sign up to serve have that intention, that they will make this a better nation at the end of the day. I am a physician and also a reservist and i served in iraq for a year. That has led me to want to be here today. One of the things i know as a doctor and im sure dr. Somers you can relate, that when you have patients, regardless of their problems, there is a level of anxiety that, because they have something wrong, whether its muscular, skeletal or mental, it doesnt matter. Something is wrong and there is anxiety. It makes it more difficult and heightens the anxiety when you have all these administrative problems. I know you started to deal with that in private practice. More so maybe than when you first started. The prescription
Are you looking at partnerships equine therapy. I have a Great Program in my district, a successful program. They could partner with programs like that. Community partnerships, engaged as part of Community Helping them. Are you asking if every v. A. Should have equine therapy . I want to know how we can increase these partnerships. Ill use my own example, im really watching the clock here. My time has run out. Ill follow up with my question. Thank you. A question for dr. Mccarthy following up closely on a few others. What are the waiting times for access to Mental Health care. Its hard to give an tut number given that both members of this committee and i have said im not sure we trust the actual numbers. What we now have, though, transparently are information about access. I printed and brought some of that information. Whats posted is for every v. A. Medical center what the new patient Mental Health wait time is, the established Mental Health wait time and then running average over th