Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac this hearing on the medicaid cliff currently facing the u. S. Territories. The medicaid funding is provided provided by the aca is set to expire this calendar year and the lack of a funding solution will be particularly harmful for American Samoa as i know it will be for the other territories. Id like to thank our witnesses for making the long trip to washington to testify before the committee today. Welcome. Each of your firsthand experiences will provide congress with an accurate assessment of the situation. Acas first allotment of funds became available in july of 2011, long before i and many of us here were elected to congress. Those funds were only accessible after the normal annual allotment was exhausted. Medicaid and chip payment and access commission, otherwise moan as mack pack published a fact sheet for American Samoa which has a list for cal table of total medicaid spending from fy 11 to fy 17 taken from reported expenditures from t
As commissioner masterson mentioned, the panel we have here is called election efficiency and integrity, improving the Voter Experience but most of this panel i think will be focussed on data and the importance of data and how we use it in the Elections Community. We have a great panel here for you. You have biographies in front of you. My staff has provided some abbreviated biographies which ill read and then well start hearing from the panel. Ive asked each of them to speak for about five minutes or so from their perspective on this panel and then i have some questions for them. And then we will go to questions from you. So before i get started, i want to thank you all for being here. Really excited to kick off the 2018 elections. Its hard to believe its already 2018. Were kicking off the elections but officials have already started working on this. The day after their last election. So i know those of you who are Election Officials, this is not a kick off for you. As others have sai
Improving the Voter Experience, but most of the panel i think will be focused on data and the importance of data and how we use it in the Elections Community. Weve got a great panel here for you. You have biographies in front of you, but my staff has provided some abbreviated biographies which i will read and we will start hearing from the panel. Ive asked each to speak for about five minutes or so from their perspective on this panel, and then i have some questions for them and then we will go to questions from you. Before get started, though, i want to thank you all for being here. Im really excited to kick off the 2018 elections. Its hard to believe its already 2018. Were kicking off the elections, but Election Officials have already started working on this the day after their last election. I know those of you who are Election Officials in the audience, this is not a kickoff for you. As others have said, its just the kickoff in january, but you all have been working on this electio
Places outside. The low clouds and sea breeze ensuring that afternoon temperatures will be running fairly cool. Low 60s in San Francisco, low 70s inland as we with await the rain. Now to see whats happening with your Tuesday Morning commute. You have changes for the weather coming up. We have the changes for the traffic. Right now we have your build at the altamont. Nothing unusual in toward dublin or the dublin interchange. Southbound 680 builds from 580 clearing by the time you get to the merge out of highway 84. Slowing for hayward and union cit city. The south bay shows more slowing. Well show you that live shot, a typical pattern. Im show you how things have changed over the last few. An update to breaking news weve been talking about since we went on the air at 4 30, a massive Xfinity Comcast outage all over the country. This map shows how big that outage is from california to washington state, the east coast, denver. So far no word on whats causing this outage or when service wi
Places outside. The low clouds and sea breeze ensuring that afternoon temperatures will be running fairly cool. Low 60s in San Francisco, low 70s inland as we with await the rain. Now to see whats happening with your Tuesday Morning commute. You have changes for the weather coming up. We have the changes for the traffic. Right now we have your build at the altamont. Nothing unusual in toward dublin or the dublin interchange. Southbound 680 builds from 580 clearing by the time you get to the merge out of highway 84. Slowing for hayward and union cit city. The south bay shows more slowing. Well show you that live shot, a typical pattern. Im show you how things have changed over the last few. An update to breaking news weve been talking about since we went on the air at 4 30, a massive Xfinity Comcast outage all over the country. This map shows how big that outage is from california to washington state, the east coast, denver. So far no word on whats causing this outage or when service wi