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no problems today. quiet day. mostly sunny skies. tomorrow from the early morning hours close to the south coast to early afternoon closer to boston and worcester some patchy light snow breaking out. still a question of how far the accumulating snow will get to the north. we re riding the edge of this storm the whole time. it looks like the best chance for accumulating snow in the city of boston would be late tomorrow, tomorrow evening and wrapping up early on sunday morning. how much snow are we expecting? generally 1 to 3 along the coastline. close to the city of boston, maybe an inch or two of snow. higher totals settling off to the south. now, there is a winter storm watch posted along the immediate south coast of new england here, stretching essentially from cape cod back through the islands, down through buzzards bay and along that 95 stretch into connecticut. if there are towns that will exceed 6 inches of snow, i think it would be right along the immediate coast ....
this isn t about creating a new washington system to how to figure out how to pay people to provide care. this is much more broadly, about how do we establish policies to allow patients and families to remain in control of their health care and health care decisions. so so why did you guys bring up the reimbursement rates under medicare and medicaid as one of the reasons why there is this lack of adequacy of network i would say providers within some of the plans? i would say it is one of the reasons. okay. so it so if the congress could help address the reimbursement rates and reform sgr, would that help or hurt the process? i think it all depends on how it s done. and, again, i d refer you back to the position of the obama administration who said in a court filing this year saying there s to general mandate under medicaid to reimburse providers, including hospitals in that, for all or substantially all of their costs. so the position of the ....
head the homeland security department. votes on the nomination are scheduled for 5:30. right now the chaplain of the senate, berry black is giving the opening prayer. be instrumes of your glory, striving to please you in all that they do. make them so ethically congruent that they practice what they profess. may their hearts be so transformed by your spirit that they seek your approbation above any earthly approval. we pray in your merciful name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 243. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 243, s. 1356 a bill to amend the work force investment act of 1998 and so forth and for o ....
book tv brings you portions of talks about the budget. we start with philip with joyce of the american association for budget analysis. in his book the congressional budget office he gives a history and says it s non-partisan communication to congress and the public has been crucial in the creation of the political agenda. has it been used as a political football in the past? the one thing you can say about organizations that produce information is that they cannot make anybody use that information. they can t even make anybody interpret that information accurately. so whoever it is that might be a support your opponent of a particular policy can clearly use a cost estimate for example to say that this is a bad policy or a good policy that happened for example in the clinton health care reform in 1993 and 1994 cbo came up with an estimate that said the clinton health care reform rather than saving money which the clinton administration said would cause money that wa ....