Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official, like a mayor governor, senator president , cant be censor order not distorted and not to respect it and to try to answer it or even to acknowledge it so that people know its not going to some dark hole, is major issue, i think and most young people dont realmize that a written letter to pool particular has far more impact than an email. They get lots of letters. I income a half million a week. Guest yes. Host certainly you dont expect th
[inaudible conversations] you can watch this again anytime on the website, cspan. Org. And now we want to introduce you to the Lieutenant Colonel director of the marine band. What is your job, Lieutenant Colonel . Im the 28th director of the marine band and my job is to lead the band and performances and im the Commanding Officer of this unit as well. And how big is the unit lacks we have 154 dedicated members and its designed to cover multiple commitments at the same time and to cover a wide span of different types of performances that we are required to do for the white house and across the capital region. In a practicin the practice l we saw about 50 members and the band is about 154 mark 154 . That includes the musicians and a Chamber Orchestra and a member of physicians that double one jazz instruments that may be required at any time and professional support staff that support the operations throughout the year. When you perform at the white house or on the south lawn or a corres
Dwight d. Eyisenhower as a military man and president. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Business owners, policy writers, and an accountant testify before the Senate Finance committee on the future of u. S. Business tax law. They talked about the latest research into ways United States tax law could be changed to be more competitive in the Global Economy. This is just over an hour 45 minutes. Good morning. Its a pleasure to welcome everyone to todays hearing, which weve entitled navigating Business Tax Reform. Its a big title. I think this title accurately describes the challenges we have before us. Moving forward on Business Tax Reform specifically and on comprehensive tax reform more generally. In the recent past identifying and developing certain bipartisan policy proposals and moving them through the legislative process has proven especially difficult. But im an optimist, and i believe we can and should find Common Ground on a path forward for comprehensive tax reform. Of c
To be good for the medicare to do over time and to provide some kind of services and theyre in fact one of the things that would be good for medicare to be able to do over time is to provide not om some of those ombudsman kinds of services but potentially even a structure to help people manage the long term services. That might be an addon program that people would enroll in and pay a modest income related payment for in which they could get additional help in managing that system. But i think the whole idea of managing it and to the family members and then the area thats that and maybe even a model on to itself in terms of an innovation. I think that were wrapping up because while we do have more questions, i dont think that we can get to all of our questions. I want to thank the alliance for this interesting discussion and the panelists. I want to give a plug for our primmer which two of our panelists worked on. If you havent learned everything you need to know about payment Delivery
Dwight d. Eyisenhower as a military man and president. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Business owners, policy writers, and an accountant testify before the Senate Finance committee on the future of u. S. Business tax law. They talked about the latest research into ways United States tax law could be changed to be more competitive in the Global Economy. This is just over an hour 45 minutes. Good morning. Its a pleasure to welcome everyone to todays hearing, which weve entitled navigating Business Tax Reform. Its a big title. I think this title accurately describes the challenges we have before us. Moving forward on Business Tax Reform specifically and on comprehensive tax reform more generally. In the recent past identifying and developing certain bipartisan policy proposals and moving them through the legislative process has proven especially difficult. But im an optimist, and i believe we can and should find Common Ground on a path forward for comprehensive tax reform. Of c