herta's community rose to her defense. thousands of people signed an online petition to stop her deportation. last year the department of homeland security granted herta a one-year stay. the department is now considering whether to delay it for another year. i hope they will. would it be a good place of taxpayers' dollars to deport herta? of course not. there is so much discussion in america today about what we need from our young people for america to succeed in the future in the so-called stem fields. science, technology, engineering and math. every year we issue thousands of h-1b visas to bring foreign workers to the united states in the stem fields. now herta is a straight "a" student in electrical engineering, a stem field. she doesn't need an h-1b visa. she is a homegrown american talent. why in the world would we create a law to allow someone who has never lived in the united states to come here and legally reside to become an electrical engineer and tell herta, who's lived her all of her life that she remembers tha

herta just an independent analysis of that which indicates by 2017 medicare advantage reductions will result in the reduction of $3700, the value of benefits. jemez talked about the fact that the law does in fact adds to the deficit. the president said however, reporting, recording that he would not sign a lot and i quote as one done through our deficit either now or in the future. well, you can bet the proverbial farm that the cost estimates including the official cost estimates of the congressional budget office will continue to increase in terms of what this law will actually cost. since its enactment for shortly after its enactment the cbo revise its initial 10 year cost estimate to add another $115 billion. that's just the beginning. in any event under any scenario, a trillion dollars addition in federal spending plus the creation of two new entitlement programs is hardly a formula for deficit reduction. ladies and gentlemen, there is one other item that is, in fact, i think a very important driver in this debate. and that is the question about how we are to be governed. it is ac