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[inaudible conversation] good morning. i call this hearing to order. we have a full house today. i welcome the audience. this is a formal senate hearing and in order to allow the senate to conduct their business we will have a quorum. that means if there s demonstrations by the audience the person will be escorted from the room. since this is the first hearing of the session i would like to welcome our new members. thank you very much and congratulations and joining the committee. i would also like to welcome senator tom carper in his new role as the ranking member of the committee. you are here even if you have a scratchy throat. forty years from you were treasurer of delaware, member of congress, governor, member of the u.s. senate has not missed a day. you are cal ripken junior and the iron man so thanks being here. i look forward to working with you. he deserves applause. with regard to procedure, we will follow the earlybird role in terms of the member questions. ....
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people are going to accuse me of doing a dual narrative. i just love the story. anyway that became the story on british history. i would argue that was the last dual narrative that i did in my view. i don t look at this as a dual narrative. so yeah. i don t have so much of a question but first of all i want to thank you for all the great hooks you are providing. i have been telling friends that if you read the book you are only reading half the story. what i mean by that, if you look at the notes towards the back of the book he provides so much more information that you are not getting in reading the book. for example he puts in his footnotes where you can go to a web site and see film of people boarding the boat that was taken on the boat and found this the boat was leaving the harbor. he was just so nice that you offer all this additional information for the readers. thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much for your comment because i have learned by the ....
on this deal. we get your views. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a tweet, if you would like, @cspanwj, or join the conversation at facebook.com/cspan, or send us an e-mail, [email protected]. your thoughtst here in just a minute about your views on social security and medicare. in this two-year budget deal that was announced on monday, there were changes to social security and medicare. joining us on the phone is jonathan nicholson, a reporter with bloomberg bna. let s begin with social security, the disability program. what changes did they propose in this deal? guest: the thing to remember is social security has not just one trust fund, it is actually two. the problem is that the disability insurance trust fund , not beed to run low able to pay full benefits with the amount of money coming in starting in 2016, so basically to forestall that, the proposal is kind of a two-step kind of thing. on ....
sexual assault response coordinator. i immediate privately with the front line defenders on the war on sexual assault, i ll say. they report to me overwhelmingly that they think we re making progress on all fronts but one. and here comes the hardest of all, i think. we re definitely not satisfied. and that is the issue of retaliation. so, retaliation, by the way, can be if you report sexual assault, the boss takes some action against you, which is or feels like retaliation. i ll call that official retaliati retaliation. the other form is just when your peers in the unit kind of find out what s happened or what allegedly happened and they take sides and maybe they treat you differently or maybe people who are your friends now shun you. i ll call that unofficial retaliation. our piggest problem is on that unofficial part, people who rush to swrujudgment to &and take si who is going to replace dr. la plant as acquisition czar? rich lombardi is now in the acting capacit ....