dr. charles blahous. charles blahous hoover research fellow who serves as one of the two public trustees and social security and medicare programs. in 2,722,009, dr. blahous served as deputy director of president bush's national economic council. in 2001 at 2007 he served as assistant to economic policy. even a variety of issues that the senate as a staffer. he's also done a recent book on social security with unfinished work and pensions lives confronting employers pensions, understanding and other various publications on each 21. dr. blahous is a phd in quantum chemistry at the university of california and a basher from princeton. are there public trustee is robert reischauer, president of the urban institute and second in the public trustees. a former director of the congressional budget office or before that he spent at the brookings institution since 1995. dr. reischauer serves on the board several educational and nonprofit organizations. he was a member of the medicare from 2000 to two dozen nine an

dr. charles blahous, charles blahous is currently a hoover research fellow and serves for the social security and medicare. from 2007 to 2009, dr. blahous served as the director of national economic council, from 2001, he served as the special assistance to the president for economic policy, he's done a variety of issues and been on the senate as a staffer. he's also a highly publicized author including the book on social security and unfinished work and pension wise confronting and understanding other various publications, he also frequently on "e21" he has quantum chemistry from california berkeley and bachelor s from princeton. dr. reischauer is the second, he's a former director of the congressional budget office. before that, fellow of economist studies at the brookings institute in 1995. dr. reischauer serves on the board of several. he was a member of the medicare payment and advisory commission from 2000 to 2009, and vice chair from 2001 to 2008. so he's very knowledgeable on medicare and payment issues. hehold the bachelor of science from harvard and phd from columbia. chuck and bob

dr. blahous' comments that subchange would be a good change. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> i yield back. >> the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. kind, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank our witnesses for your update today. mr. reischauer, maybe i can start with you. i see this chart showing the trustee report dating back to 1970 regarding the year of solvency. this tracks economic performance, whether we're in a growth state or declining state and how that influences the ultimate solvency of this trust fund. is that something that's consistent with what the trustees are finding, too, what the sfreng of our economy and the payroll revenue -- strength of our economy and the payroll revenue? >> certainly that's a very important contributor as is legislation and various times in this list the congress has enacted significant legislative changes that have prolonged the life of the h.i. trust fund. >> i'm looking particularly at the late 1990's, 2000 or so, we had a period of robust economic growth and the trustee showed 25, 28 years of solvency unli