chairman, pursuant ton, house rule 11 clae 2j 1 we would like to have a minority day of hearings. you have blocked key witnesses from testifying in this inquiry. this is not under house rule 11 clause 1a it applies to the democrats impeachment inquiry. we look forward to the chair promptly scheduling and agreed upon a minority day of hearing so weea can hear from key witnesses you f have continuall blocked from testifying. and i would like to take a moment tota address an assertio that ms. hill made she claimed that someim committee members dy that russia meddled in the 2016 election. as i noted in my opening statement on wednesday, that in march 2018 republicans published the results of a year long investigation into russian meddling. the 240 page report analyzed 2016 russian meddling campaign, the u.s. government reaction to it, russian campaigns in other countries, andth provided specic recommendations to improve american election security. i will ask my staff to hand these reports to our two witnesses today just so they can have a recollection of their memory. as america may o

. >> yes cleaveland clae. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's in place? >> yes. >> commissioner cleaveland: that funding is in place. you mentioned about e.m.s. 4. what's going on there? >> ours is a cutting-edge program, and there are other efforts to reform e.m.s. services in other areas. i think at long last, it's gotten the attention of reimbursement and policy change. one of these things has to do is the federal government as an initiation pilot initiating a program in which they would allow certain places to get reimbursement from medicare, from caring for medicare beneficiaries in ways other than transporting them to the -- an acute care hospital. let me back up and just sort of say from a health care economics standpoint, from medicare, medicare reimburses for transport to an acute care hospital. that is -- that is it. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's all they cover currently, and that's about $400 a pop. >> that's correct. that's correct. so if we engage a client in their home, manage their medications, offer alternatives in a deferred appointm