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I feel welcome to the program. The European Union has been heavily criticized for its treatment of migrants and Asylum Seekers a new Human Rights Watch report highlights e. U. Efforts to prevent fresh arrivals in twenty seventeen and it criticizes the e. U. For its reliance on non e. U. Countries to stem the flow of people reaching europe while the number of migrant arrivals by sea was down to one hundred fifty thousand by november last year around half the Previous Year but the report says the mediterranean remained deadly with nearly three thousand people dead or missing in that same period Human Rights Watch also said the Member States who took in the largest number of arrivals were shunned by the remainder of the union and this was because of the dublin regulation under this rule Asylum Seekers were returned to excellence and greece who then had to take responsibility for them because they were the original e. U. Countries of entry in some of twenty seventeen germany suspended thos
Alphabet parent to google up better than 4 right now. Set the action right here and the nasdaq composite is up a fraction as the s p 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial average. I would have expected a bigger move there so we will take a look at markets coming up. In Europe Markets are mixed right now, the cac quarante and dax index up fractionally. In asia overnight, markets closed like this as you see, shanghai composite scweaked out a gain. The airline settling with that person and his lawyer is now praising United Airlines, we will tell you why. Airlines comes into fire, southwest is getting proactive, it will no longer overbook flights. Populist site was down for several hours, what caused that crash coming up and mobile ordering a boom for starbucks, nearly onethird of sales were made online but popularity actually backfired, we will bring you the stories and joining me to talk about independent voice and president heather is with us the king of College Professor Brian Brendberg is
The president s nominee for the next administrator for centers for medicare and Medicaid Services said all options should be considered to improve Program Quality and financial stability. Seema verma testified in a three our confirmation hearing yesterday. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come order. I would like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of seema verma to Service Administrator of the centers for medicaid, medicare and Medicaid Services. We are so happy to have you here and your family too. Appreciate your willingness to meet at the agency on this article time. I see your family has joined you today to lend support so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest Health Insurer covering over one third of the Us Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and processes over 1. 2 billion a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulner
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec