watch our simulcast back story with the american history guys, host ed ayers regail with tales of beer and spirits in america. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> this senate special committee on aging looked into the finances of long term care for seniors, and its effect on the medicare program. several witnesses argued for allowing more states flexibility in providing long term care. this hearing is 1:20. >> good afternoon to everyone. and thank you so much for being here today. we're looking at the question how best to provide and finance long term care services for the millions of americans who need them while also balancing our debt, our deficits and overall financial picture. as we look ahead, we're going to have to do more with less, we all know that. in fact, we must find better and more efficient ways to find care, because the money simply will not be there. today we're going -- we're here today to talk about some of the ways to save money, without doing material damage to long term care. the cost of long term care services, more than $300 billion a year ar

ed ayers, and brian bellow regail with tails of spirits. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >>> included in this week's series of hearings looking into a general services administration conference in lave was one before a house infrastructure subcommittee. witnesses included a former gsa official who attended the conference and the administrator who first alerted the inspector general about the conference. this part of the hearing is a little more than three hours. >> two weeks ago the inspector general released a scathing report on gsa conference that cost taxpayers nearly a million dollars. seen a lot of reports about the las vegas lavish vacation, the spending. and i appreciate mr. cummings, ranking member cummings on the government oversight committee, as well as chairman issa for discussing in great detail those lavish expenditures and the wrongdoing that happened with the las vegas vacation. the purpose of this question is to talk about the systemic problem, how deep it goes, the corruption, the fraud, the waste tha