Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
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You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the letter ininbr front of them, you will receiveubmit it in advance of todays notice the. Thank you for working with me on refl able to wholcan submit a conse document that reflects the a priorities of the ways and n means community. They will consider as open for amendment r at any point, and if there are no amendments i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Imat i move t
You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the letter ininbr front of them, you will receiveubmit it in advance of todays notice the. Thank you for working with me on refl able to wholcan submit a conse document that reflects the a priorities of the ways and n means community. They will consider as open for amendment r at any point, and if there are no amendments i will now recognize mr. Thompson for the purpose of offering a motion. Imat i move t
At this time im honored to introduce the speaker for today. Todd is both an offer and funeral f director. In fact, his family has been involved in that profession in delaware for four generations. The most recent book is last rites the evolution of the american funeral and todd will be speaking to us today about how Abraham Lincoln was at the center of the transformation of american funeral practices both during his time in the white house and also through his tragic death. Now, we will have a question and answer session at the end of the talk. There will be a couple of walking microphones. I would ask please take advantage of those because we want our cspan audience to be able to hear both of the questions and the answers. At this time i will turn it over to todd. [applause] thank you. Its my pleasure to present to you this evening. Now we all know what happens good friday, 1865. But what imta going to talk abt this evening is about how the grand event of that was Abraham Lincolns tra