i and my stuff in a landfill will be scanning for signs and i will state is in positive terms hauer growth projections remain on track and we see consistent progress in the area of employment growth and falling unemployment and first and foremost we will be looking for signs of price pressures that are likely to build in the absence of some tightening of monetary conditions. but for those signs, particularly with respect to inflation we will certainly continue to monitor the usual forward-looking indicators. among these indicators my staff and i especially watch the more refined measures of the core inflation. we monitor the media or trend measures that have been shown to be better predictors of headline inflation over medium term horizons. we certainly want to look at measures of inflation expectations. particularly those based on the market that's such as forward break-even rates derived from the shields and we will continue to monitor the measures of the basic cost structures that businesses confront such as movements and labor costs adjusted for productivity growth. but we have started

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>> governor patrick -- >> hauer increase as i mentioned earlier is for us it will be 50% increase in medicaid eligibility so it's a dramatic increase in the budget, and again, the 1.2 to $1.3 billion of additional cost has got to come from someplace to be to either raise taxes or cut services. it's that simple and you know the challenges we are all having the dillinger in the budget today. it's a very difficult time in this just adds to the problem. >> it's been a i would yield to the ring to member mr. waxman for five minutes to read estimates before mr. chairman and for your testimony. it seems to me both of your oral presentation and written presentation have some common themes of the we ought to agree on. we must continue to make medicaid a better program benefiting we can provide better quality-of-care while also reducing cost, and i think we need to work together to achieve that goal. also nationally certain populations have greater health care needs than others. children are half of the medicaid beneficiaries 25% of the cost. adults including pregnant women make up 23% of the

ask about the thrust to use passive safety features and passive designs get to the point where if hauer fails and potential for crisis that we have seen occur in japan. to what extent are we trying to ensure that those passive type designs and systems and safety features be put in place in our nuclear power plants? >> there are two principal reactor designs that are called passive reactor designs and the reason they are called passive because as you mentioned they don't rely on alternating current to respond to an event of this magnitude. there is no pumps that need to start and run off of alternating current any valves that need to change positions change because of stored arithmetics system of of the battery power supply. once they're running the rely on the natural process he's like gravity in order to create a water flow to keep the core cold. the designs undergone extensive review are receiving approval, in fact there are these lines being planned for construction in the united states that utilize this design concept. >> i'm right in thinking that none of the 104 currently operatin

jerry hauer is chief executive officer ofthe national association of home builders and former work withboth the national association of altors and the national association of state housing agencies so he has seen this are many different angles. shanna smith is president of the national fair housing alliance. bravely serve as executive director of the fair housing center of toledo, ohio. and alex pollock, resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, specializes in financial issues, formally served as president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of chicago. last night when we had a dinner that had all of our panelists, as well as some others, it was a rather glittering array of thinking and analysis about the housing industry. and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you kw, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are oking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquently in that

hauer who do we convince where the responsibility of the driver who begins, where the response of theautomobile manufacturer begins and where the of responsibilities of the regulatory regime begins and ends. because we can issue rules and want her early anything -- in some instances if i say the safety rating for example having people will get that and make recess whether they are going to buy a five star safety rating car or whether or not that is going to be a factor in their decision, whether they are going to choose to buy a vehicle that has lain departure warning systems, to technologies the agency has highlighted in the last go around in our upbringing because those are technologies that have a huge ability in the future to keep the crash from happening in the first place. but then there's the question of well, how reliant to we want our drivers to be on the systems? how do we as a nation value those particular systems? arcane bricker receipts? is the cost we will be adding to the vehicle burst army mandating it on every vehicle? will we saving of lives? but there's a bigger que

hauer important is the immigration policy to your business?bviously we see we have a full room here. something that is absolutely as important to a lot of you that you ought to hear about it. back here. is it working? let's go to the next question. we will go to the back first. give you a few seconds. okay. let's give a round of applause to our technical people that there. they are doing a fantastic job. that is the first of the day, no problem, and by the way, by the way, congressman mike honda, what a wonderful, wonderful message. again, the immigration issue not being hispanic which is many times labeled as that but one that transcends into the asian community and one that transcends into other communities, even the african-american community as was shared by congressman mike honda. so it is something we definitely want to flush out. part of what we want to discuss today will only has to do with the immigration issue as a social justice issue or as was mentioned as the fair and proper thing to do what is the right thing to do but also has b

jerry hauer is chief executive officer of the national association of home builders and former work with both the national association of realtors and the national association of state housing agencies so he has seen this are many different angles. shanna smith is president of the national fair housing alliance. bravely serve as executive director of the fair housing center of toledo, ohio. and alex pollock, resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, specializes in financial issues, formally served as president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of chicago. last night when we had a dinner that had all of our panelists, as well as some others, it was a rather glittering array of thinking and analysis about the housing industry. and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you know, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are looking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquent

jerry hauer is chief executive officer of the national association of home builders and former work with both the national association of realtors and the national association of state housing agencies so he has seen this are many different angles. shanna smith is president of the national fair housing alliance. bravely serve as executive director of the fair housing center of toledo, ohio. and alex pollock, resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, specializes in financial issues, formally served as president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of chicago. last night when we had a dinner that had all of our panelists, as well as some others, it was a rather glittering array of thinking and analysis about the housing industry. and i said then to paraphrase john f. kennedy, not since bill levitt dined alone had there been so much housing expertise in one place at one time. so we have a strong group for you to kind of kick around these issues. let me start with, you know, what is the basic gap or dichotomy that we are looking at as you see in this poll, and even more eloquent