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mr. upton: dr. row. the speaker pro tempore: gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. roe: i rise in support of the keep grur health care plan act. this bill is important for many people in my district, including jo ann. jo ann lives in limestone,town tfpblet because policy doesn't meet the minimum requirements set by obamacare, she's been forced to buy more expensive health care plan. her premiums will rise from about $95 a month to $200 a month. she felt $95 was affordable, $200 not. despite promises of more affordable health care this law is making insurance unattainable for many across my home state. blue cross and blue shield of tennessee is our state's largest insurer and it's announced it will be forced to send 66,000 cancellation notices to my fellow tennesseans because of obamacare. the medicaid business plan called covered tennessee, another 60,000 loose their care. it's well past time for president obama to work with members of congress to provide relief to the families hurting

dr. mr. chairman president, one of the last nights i will spend in the white house in one of the last letters i will write on this paper at the white house, i would like to write you my message. i send it because i know how much my husband cared by peace. she goes on about the relationship they forged. the kindness of khrushchevs extended to them and of mrs. khrushchev i read she had tears in her eyes when she left the white house. signing the book of mourning. please thank her for that. a fragile bond that kept those bunkers from view had this country come under attack and they figured out that this is where the president and first family were kept safe, there was one more escape route. they could have climbed these stairs in the back of the bunker here. you can see the hatch at the top here, a secret escape to the outside world. obviously the bunker was never used and in fact the white house didn't even acknowledge that this existed until ten years after his assassination. diane? >> that wa

dr. browner and mr. co- hill and distinguished guests. i'm marilyn logan i'm the nurse manager of the medical unit at the st. luke's campus. it's truly an honor to be here and i'm very k350i69d we're moving forward with our project to build 20/20 hospitals in 0 san francisco. for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new

dr. browner and mr. co- hill and distinguished guests. i'm marilyn logan i'm the nurse manager of the medical unit at the st. luke's campus. it's truly an honor to be here and i'm very k350i69d we're moving forward with our project to build 20/20 hospitals in 0 san francisco. for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new facilities with the new technology. our state and federal staff is looking forward to the completion of this project because those hospitals will create a great environment for us. it will create a level of pride in the work we do. most importantly for our patients the new hospitals will bring a more pleasant healing environment and an improved experience of care. for our patients family we'll have a great assurance that their loved ones are receiving the best care possible for for our community the new hospital represents community pride. in my current positi

mrs. loretta lynn. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> dr. mario molina. mrs. shawn see accepting on behalf of sally k. ride. mr. walter anywherele, accepting on behalf of his partner bayard rustin. mr. arturo sandoval. mrs. smith, accepting on behalf of her husband, dean smith. mrs. gloria steinem. reverend c.t. vivian. the honorable patricia wald. mrs. oprah winfrey. [ applause ] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [ applause ] >> good morning. good morning, everybody. everybody, please have a seat. have a seat. well, on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. this is one of my favorite events every year, especially it's special this year as i look at this extraordinary group of individuals and our opportunity to honor them with our nation's highest civilian honor, the presidential medal of freedom. and this year it's just a little more special because this marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy establishing this award. we're honored, by the way, today, to have with us one of my fa

dr. joscelyn and doctor wehrey. mr. joscelyn and dr. wehrey. dr. lawrence talked about the backlash from syria, and, mr. joscelyn, you just alluded to it briefly. i would like you to each talk about how you see instability in syria or other regional instabilities kind of washing back into the maghreb. >> well, one of the things that happened with al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb is that its operations accelerated during the iraq war because they were sending off a lot of recruits to fight in iraq. now, currently during the syrian war, basically, we've seen the same facilitation networks are bringing recruits from north africa to syria to fight and, obviously, can bring them back to north africa where they can create problems in their home cunnings. one of the -- countries. one of the branches in tunisia and libya appear to be sending recruits to libya. they see it -- i see it in social media and various indications. so these are groups that are actively sending off recruits to fight in syria and elsewhere. the reason why that's important is because i

dr. price and senator sanders. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to commend you and senator murray for continuing to provide opportunity for exchange of ideas and gaining information. dr. elmendorf, welcome back once again. i was struck by your three conclusions, one, debt larger than after world war ii, two, debt will continue to rise and we are on your words an unsustainable path, and, three, that current law, if followed, will result in a decrease of congress' ability, the people's representatives ability, to provide prioritization and spending on defense and nondefense areas to a smaller level than any time in the last 50 years in 2017 and beyond. real fundamental change in the work that congress does. now i'm hopeful that we can reach a large agreement. i think we can reach an agreement. i'm not sure how large it can be, i'm hopeful that it is large, but i think we need to walk before we can run, likely. so my question is a specific question about sequester. the discretionary side of spending will decrease january 15th down to 965, 967 o

dr. gingrey. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much for yielding, and i, too, am pleased to see the doctors here again today. the bill looked to address the crisis of antibiotic resistance with title viii, the gain act, which i wrote with my colleagues, mr. green, mr. shimkus, ms. degette, mr. whitfield and ms. eshoo. by focusing on incentives to bring new drugs to market, we have seen renewed focus on development of cutting edge drugs, antibiotics. however, even with the early success of this program, i do believe that we need to do more. and so, mr. chairman, cdc had a september report, cdc and my great capital city of atlanta, georgia, on antimicrobial resistance highlights 18 known resistance threats. it's estimated across the country more than two million people are sickened every year with infections resulting in at least 23,000 deaths. 23,000 deaths. i look forward to continuing to work with the fda to create innovative pathways and processes. we must make sure that the agency and drug developers ha

mr. speaker, as dr. roe mentioned, and it probably will be, consumers will still face higher premiums and the likelihood that they will be unable to see the doctors to which they have grown accustomed. mr. speaker, i have heard from a number of my constituents in the past few weeks about the disastrous effects of the president's health care law. i will take a little time this evening to share with my colleagues a few of the observations from good, solid georgians -- georgians. tom, a georgia blue cross customer, told me his blue cross policy went up originally by about $50 due to the affordable care act. about two weeks ago i got a note that said my old policy no longer exists and my new policy will now cost $100 more. that's a quote from tom. dotti from metro atlanta told me that her husband's employer was forced to drop their family plan and will instead offer them only two more costly options. either plan wine crease their premium by at least -- either plan would increase their premiumum by at least $1

dr. yellen. mr. chairman, thank you. >> senator? senator warner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. to -- i have a series of quick questions. one, i guess i'd like to make a comment. i understand some of our colleagues' concerns about, you know, some of the extraordinary measures the fed has had to take on, quantitative easing. i guess i would simply make a comment and ask for a short response on this, that part of our political dysfunction in this town, in terms of the ability to actually grapple with getting our country's balance sheet right in terms of a so-called grand bargain or even an actual budget in place, if we were able to actually perform our functions, wouldn't that allow you to move out of the extraordinary measures in a quicker manner? >> well, senator, it certainly is the case that the economy has suffered over the last year substantial drag from fiscal policy. the cbo estimates that the drag amounts to something like 1.5% on growth. and as we commented in our fomc statement most recently, taking account of the large amount of fiscal drag, the economy, even though it'

mr. strickland who is a developer in town for a long time never been to a dr and john asked me if i would help him with it and reach out to mr. matchen and come to an agreement with the neighbor to the east. i have spoken with him numerous times. he is never available to meet at the site. he lives out of town and he was traveling so that was difficult. they didn't come to the pre-application meeting or the variance hearing so it's difficult to assess exactly what the complaints are. the primary first objection and one you heard again tonight is fire exiting, a claim over a proscriptive easement over the property and if you look at the letters sent in that mr. matchen sent to the dr and that's what they talk about. we need fire exiting on your property. john tried to come up with a solution. he tried to design some sort of sprinkler system and shoot water over the property line to keep the exiting corridor wet and presumably safe. here is the exiting corridor between the buildings. it's rather wide. this is the expressed fears. this is in the back, but again there was no response whether t

mr. president, dr. jackson, i remember that history of southeast and i'm not certain that every commissioner here has seen that. maybe we can get a hold of that again and redistribute it because i think it is very interesting. >> commissioners, is there any other public comment? seeing none, general public comment is now closed. madam secretary, next item. >> communications. >> i have a few things to address. the first thing under 5 a advanced calendar about the salvage trees that have been announced. are we doing anything about that? >> we've been working with the national forest service and a lot of trees impacted is in their property line and they have an arrangement with the logging company for that. >> $1 1/2 to 2 million for lumber. >> i thought you were talking about the rim fire? >> yes. i am talking about the rim fire. >> let me defer until michael comes back. >> okay. the second thing i would like to address is 5c the power revenue and clean energy bond. i didn't even realize this was emerging

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dr. price and senator sanders. >> thank you mr. chairman. i want to commend you and senator murray for continuing to provide opportunities for exchange of ideas in gaining information. dr. elmendorf welcome back once again. i was struck layer three conclusions. debt larger than in any time in our history since world war ii and that will continue to rise and we are in your words on an unsustainable path and number three that current law if followed will result in a decrease of congress's ability and the people's representative abilities to provide participation in defense and non-defense areas to a smaller level than anytime in the last 50 years to 2017 and beyond so the fundamental change in the work that congress does. i'm hopeful that we can reach agreement and i think we can reach agreement. i'm hopeful it is large but i think we need to walk before we can run likely. my question is a specific question about sequester. the discretionary side of spending will decrease january 15 down to 967 or so and there are many that believe that is not

mr. chairman. thank you, dr. furman, for being here. the last time a council for economic adviser testified before -- chairman testified before this committee was in october of 2009. so we thank you for coming close in to the time that you were appointed. i note that that month the economy shed more than 200,000 private sector jobs as it struggled to regain its footing. the exact opposite of what we just saw with the job gains from the past month of october and, in fact, we've now seen an average of 200,000 for each month in the last three months. i think we all know that we have come a long way, as this chart shows, since the beginning of the downturn. four years later, we are still adding jobs, not as many as we would like, as the chairman pointed out, but we have still seen 44 straight months of private sector job growth. 1.9 million private sector jobs just this year. in this time, 7.8 million private sector jobs have been created overall, including more than 2.4 million in the past 12 months. last month the unemployment rate was 7.

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mr. speaker, i would yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, dr. gingrey, a member of the health subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for unwp -- for one minute. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, the gentleman from new york just said it. universal health care. single-payer system. government takeover of 1/6 of our economy. that's what they wanted from the very beginning. i rise today in support of h.r. 3350, the keep your health plan act now. the obama administration's health exchange enrollment announcement on wednesday is one of the myriad reasons we must pass this bill. frankly, these long-awaited numbers did not come as a surprise to us. a mere 100,000 registered for health care on the new marketplace when they anticipated 500,000. according to health and human services' report, the number does not distinguish even between those who have actually paid a premium and those who just select the plan by kicking a button on the website. mr. speaker, the number of americans who have had their health plans canceled is

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mr. wallace. >> it should be dr. wallace because i make people feel good. tavis: you and jerry have been friends a long time. >> i can't get rid of him. i wish everybody had a friend like jerry seinfeld. thing we havely in common is that we both love him. he loves me and i can't get rid of him. it is nice to have a friend like jerry seinfeld. getou are feeling down, yourself a little wallace. when i finish with you, you will not be a democrat or republican. he will sit back and relax and be wallacized. tavis: that is what the world needs. >> so many things will be much better. people are mean for no reason at all. look at congress. the negotiations with the shutdown. whatever happened on the last not to havesed us the shutdown could have been done on the first day. let's get it done. let's just make it happen. are there things you can do? >> we will stop being so mean. we will laugh it off. we teach kids to confront their fears. go to another country and see how people live. give me 10 young kids from africa or jamaica. all speaking different languages. i g

mr. chairman, i yield back. >> dr. burgess. >> mr. chairman, i wonder if i may make a unanimous consent request also? >> yes, go ahead. >> i would like to request unanimous consent my opening statement, which we were not allowed to be given could be made part of the record to this hearing. >> no objection. >> further, i do have a number of questions, many have come from constituents, i would also like to submit those for the record and ask the secretary for her attention to those so we can get answers, because they are, after all, important questions. okay, thank you, mr. chairman. it just came to my attention that on cnn, the cnn's website, that the site was hacked just last week, and i will be happy to make this available to you. i don't think -- >> the cnn website? >> the cnn website? >> cnn ran a story that the healthcare.gov website was hacked last week. i would appreciate your response to that. mr. terry asked a question about he wanted to get the information about the number of people that signed up. you said you wouldn't provi

dr. edward sottile, as he does his rounds. fault lines is the first television crew to be allowed here. [knock, knock, knock] >> mr. turner...how are you? how are you feeling today? today dr. sottile checks on 59 year old chris turner. serving a sentence for kidnapping and sodomy, he's also being punished for punching a nurse in the stomach. how are you doing with your arm motions? >> they seem to be a lot better now that you mention it... >> he came to us a couple of years ago with huntington's chorea. that is a genetic disease that is gradually progressive and the patient has these movements that are purposeless-he can't control his movement. and eventually, what happens is it affects his ability to swallow. and eventually, they deteriorate, they lose weight and they die. >> this unit houses 30 beds - and it's almost always full. >> mr. johnson... >> yes sir... >> how are you? >> fine,thank you sir. >> how are you doing today? in the outside world, inmate robert johnson was a heavy gambler... >> donald trump flew me all over the world - hong kong and all over... >> you have to be kidding >> oh yeah...i'm not kiddi

mr. speaker, i would yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, dr. gingrey, a member of the health subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for unwp -- for one minute. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, the gentleman from new york just said it. universal health care. single-payer system. government takeover of 1/6 of our economy. that's what they wanted from the very beginning. i rise today in support of h.r. 3350, the keep your health plan act now. the obama administration's health exchange enrollment announcement on wednesday is one of the myriad reasons we must pass this bill. frankly, these long-awaited numbers did not come as a surprise to us. a mere 100,000 registered for health care on the new marketplace when they anticipated 500,000. according to health and human services' report, the number does not distinguish even between those who have actually paid a premium and those who just select the plan by kicking a button on the website. mr. speaker, the number of americans who have had their health plans canceled is

mr. chairman and welcome. dr. woodcock, in september in tampa we had the ohio florida conference -- bio florida conference with researches and manufactures and folks develop in charge of all across the state. fda was kind of to send dr. richard -- thank you, for the center for drug evaluation and i want to thank you very much because i know the budget are very tight, but to have folks that are leaders that fda be able to interact directly with folks in my stay was greatly appreciated, so thank you. and the conference focused a lot on the future of drug approval. so we are pleased that the federal laws are working well. i think the number one fear of everyone, the topic of this conference turns to sequestration. because people are rather surprised that even the fda relies a lot on user fees, the user fees are subject to sequestration. this is not smart. some of the announcements i've seen come and tell me if these numbers are right, that to your budget, i don't know if this is the entire fda budget or just your sec

dr. caesar churchwell. [ applause ] officer fred crisp. [ applause ] >> mr. michael mcenolate. [ applause ] >> so at this point i will ask miss polk who is a staff member for the hrc who is fundamentally responsible for tonight's proceedings to assist us in distributing the awards. >> so, first, we have the hrc hero ward for individual leadership in civil rights and economic justice advocacy. our first awardy paul day in management and communications for the university of california san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] and mr. day, if you would like to talk to us about the work that you do for a few minutes. >> sure, yes. i just have to, i'm so honored to be mentioned in the same breath as all of you civil rights pioneers and our other 2013 awardees. i humbly thank you for choosing me for the work that i have done. i have always been a civic minded individual. i get that from my grandparents. i was thinking about this this afternoon and i remember the exact moment where the switch went off. i was a youth representative for the general assembly in presbyteri

mr. chairman, and thank you, dr. yellen, for hanging in there with us. those of us at the end of the desk would love an opportunity to ask you some questions as well. i want to get back to the fed goal of full unemployment. i want to ask quick questions. give me a number on what you consider full unemployment -- or employment. >> so i don't have a precise estimate, but every three months all of the participants in the fomc fill out a survey and indicate what they think the normal longer run level of unemployment is. in our most recent survey in september, the range of opinion was 5% to 6%. >> okay. tell me, what do you believe the real unemployment rate is today? >> well, the measured unemployment rate is 7.3% -- >> i know the measured unemployment rate. that wasn't my question. >> as we've discussed previously, we have very high incidents of involuntary, part-time employment. we have all too many people who appear to have dropped out of the labor force. >> i don't want to belabor this committee hearing any longer than what i have to. would you agree tha

mr. speaker, i would yield two minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, a member of the health subcommittee, dr. cassidy, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two minutes. mr. cassidy: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, for the last 30 years i've worked in a hospital for the uninsured and what i've learned is that unless you trust the families, unless you give power to the patient, you truly cannot make good medical decisions. and so it comes to mind, i mean, my gosh, this is an email i got from someone who is my age, mid 50's, she says that we just got a letter from our health care provider, we had a major medical with a $10,000 deductible. we've lost that. we were told the insurance is not acceptable as written so now our new policy has a $7,000 deductible and it costs us $10,000 more a year. the deductible goes down by $3,000, their people are upup by $10,000. this is not -- the premium up by $10,000. frankly, i don't know if we can reconstruct the private insurance market, it may have been decimated by the affordable care act. the last chance p