fortunately, hoosiers have found a better way. in indiana we have found the way to base the program on away we know how to improve health and lowers costs, consumer-driven health care using health savings accounts. let me brag on the hoosier state for a second, and we think indiana is the birthplace of health savings accounts. some of you in the policy community remember the name j. patrick rooney. he was an insurance executive and a visionary. in addition to his idea, which he called medical savings account, which he perhaps more than any other american popularized on capitol hill, and was able to achieve being added into the tax code as a pilot program, he also personally financed the first privately funded educational choice program in the united states of america. he was my friend, but he was a visionary hoosier, and we miss him. beginning with his vision, indiana became a centerpiece for the discussion about consumer-driven health care. today indiana has more public employees, 96% in our government enrolled with state plans,

fortunately, hoosiers have found a better way. in indiana we have found the way to base the program on away we know how to improve health and lowers costs, consumer-driven health care, using health savings accounts. let me brag on the hoosier state for a second, and we think indiana is the birthplace of health savings accounts. some of you in the policy community remember the name j. patrick rooney. he was an insurance executive and a visionary. in addition to his idea, which he called medical savings account, which he perhaps more than any other american popularized on capitol hill, and was able to achieve being added into the tax code as a pilot program, he also personally financed the first privately funded educational choice program in the united states of america. he was my friend, but he was a visionary hoosier, and we miss him. beginning with his vision, indiana became a centerpiece for the discussion about consumer-driven health care. today indiana has more public employees, 96% in our government enrolled with state plans,

people like becky kincade, proud hoosiers all.who find themselves essentially for all intents and purposes caught in that gap where the income simply doesn't give them the ability to purchase health insurance for themselves and for their families. now, some of our neighbors across the midwest have chosen to address the coverage gap by expanding traditional medicaid, and i respect the decisions that others have made. i'm here to talk about indiana's decision. from the beginning of my tenure as governor we've been saying no to obamacare in indiana. we declined a state-based exchange and i've made it clear from the outset that we would not expand traditional medicaid on my watch. medicaid is not only broken, it's broken. medicaid is not a program we need to expand. medicaid is a program we need to reform. it was nobly created some 50 years ago to help the poor and those with disability access quality health care. truth be told medicaid has morphed into a bureaucratic and fiscal monstrosity that does less to help low income people tha

i think diana is like a lot of working hoosiers. people who don't want a handout but they need a hand up. in indiana we have long cherished the principle of love your neighbor love yourself and we should never walk by on the opposite side of the road if someone is hurting and they need. i think it's what makes indiana special. let me just say that is what hip 2.0 is really about respecting the dignity of every hoosier including our working poor to find a way to cover themselves and their families. respecting their ability to make their own health care choices and empowering them to lead healthier better lives. i think the healthy indiana plan is a better way. it's a better way to better health, better coverage and a better health care system and a better future for working people in the state of indiana and beyond. i hope that our success with this program will help other states as well and serve as yet another reason why we should start over on health care reform in america why we should repeal obamacare and replace it with a plan

or generally hoosiers have that fortunately hoosiers have found a better way. in indiana we have found the way to base the program on away we know how to improve health and lowers costs, consumer-driven health care. using health savings accounts. state brag on the hoosier for a second, and we think indiana is the birthplace of health savings accounts. some of you in the policy community remember the name j patrick rooney. he was an insurance executive and a visionary. in addition to his idea, which he called medical savings account, which he perhaps more than any other american popularized on capitol hill, and was able to achieve being added into the tax code as a pilot program, he also personally financed the first privately funded educational choice for graham in the united states of america. he was my friend, but he was a visionary hoosier, and we miss him. beginning with his vision, indiana became a centerpiece for the discussion about consumer-driven health care. today indiana has more public our governmentin and rolled with state plans, more than any othe

let me brag on the hoosier state for just a second.we think indiana is actually the birthplace of health savings accounts. some of you in the policy community here in our nation's capital remember the name j. patrick rooney. he was an insurance adjuster and the visionary. in addition to his ideological of medical savings account which he, perhaps more than any other american, popularized on capitol hill was able to achieve being added to the tax code as a pilot program. he also personally finance the first private funded educational choice program in the united states of america. j. patrick rooney was my friend, but he was a visionary hoosier, and we miss him. but beginning with his vision in the early 1990's, indiana became a centerpiece for the discussion about consumer-driven health care. in fact, today india has more public employees, 96 percent and roll with health service accounts plans, then any other state. out private marketplace has a higher percentage compared to many other states. so the health the indiana plan built, as it

glamour people -- david letterman will be there, one of the team owners, but also the grassroots hoosiers on the infield. >> it use todd be growing up, my friends would say, david shuster why would you ever want to go to the indianapolis 500 because look at all of those rednecks. but it really has changed, you mentioned it has become much more upscale? >> yeah, yeah, it really has. and i think there's a real focus on catering to a more upscale crowd and a younger crowd as well. the demographics tended to skew older, trying to get a younger demographic there. so aside from the glamorous stuff and those high-end things, they are really trying to ramp up things like what is known as the snake pit. and ali you may remember that from your days. this year a big country star will be at the speedway they have already sold 45,000 tickets for that. so lots of changes. >> and it's becoming much more of a festival? what is the overall economic impact that it has on indiana? not just this but events around the year. >> yeah, absolutely, ali, and motorsports are estimated more than 400 businesses are s

in recognition of memorial day, i'd like to take a moment to honor and remember three hoosier service members -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. we're in a quorum call. mr. donnelly: i ask that the quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. donnelly: thank you, mr. president. in recognition of memorial day, i'd like to take a moment today to honor three hoosier service members we lost in the last year. we remember army staff sergeant jesse williams of elk hart, killed in action after his blackhawk helicopter crashed in afghanistan on december 17, 2013. staff sergeant williams attended elkheart central high school and completed basic training in 2006. he was deployed three times, once to iraq in 2007 and twice to afghanistan in 2010 and 2013. staff sergeant williams is survived by his daughter and his parents, grandparents and siblings. his family accepted the purple heart on his behalf last month. we remember air force tech sergeant dale mathews from rolling prairie, indiana, who died in a plane crash during a training exercise in engla

how likely is it that the chinese will introduce new stimulus hoosiers at the extent of their economic reforms? >> À la, good to be with you today. al, good to be with you today. it is roundly interested to the chinese and to us. thathave a lot of tools they will continue to grow but they have to make the right policy decisions. the challenge they have is the trade-off before reform and short-term growth. there's the market determining prices between domestic and international. we all have to balance short and long-term decisions that we make. what they cannot do is treat the long-term reforms on something they can just put off. >> property prices are falling and there is a prospect that china is in a bubble about to burst that will affect the global economy. is that a real angel? -- is that a real danger? tochina has the capacity deal with its problems internally. the question is whether they managed some of the things going on in their economy whether it is price fluctuation in housing, or the localg provincial finance. >> you don't see them in a bubble right now? theyey have challen

johnny wooten, a hoosier, communicated the same message in a slightly different way.he said inch by inch, life is a cinch. yard by yard, life is hard. both quotes teach inessential -- an essential lesson. to reach your goals, you must move past the abstract world of dreams and start doing the specific tasks needed to achieve them. when you begin working with specifics, it is amazing how quickly progress comes. let me give you an example from my own life. it was my 27th birthday and i had just heard this inspiring speech from henry marsh. i was two years into my law career, feeling very uninspired by the work i was doing. i was ready for a career change. as i assessed my options at that crossroads, my biggest interests were coaching basketball, working in movies, and serving in politics. a career in basketball was unlikely. the movies were out too. that left me with politics. as a trained lawyer, it seemed like a reasonable option. i left my steady job, focused on the specific tasks, and entered a decade-plus of twists and turns that led me here today. my first job was

here with me is sponsor representative sheila of hoosiers mercy and kate deputy director is here along with jeff white housing manager and courtney who works in the department of ocii >> supervisor kim any questions. >> colleagues, any questions. seeing none, if there's are are there any members of the public who wish to speak please step forward >> good afternoon. i'm dr. espanola jackson again that i you know when i heard the word a mississippi m ii asked the body to hold a hearing concerning the a m i when you talk about affordable housing this all started in 1970 i talked about affordable i've been saying for the loss thirty or 40 years affordable to whom not affordable to the people in the community in which i reside. where did this come from g did you all law the staff of the mayor's office to come up with the a m i and then i approved it? because who in my community make 46 or $48,000 a year to get a one bedroom that's get real here that's why we have homeless in san francisco because the people that live here don't make this kind of money i lived here since 1948 i get less than

meter we've baufrnd last, as part of the ongoing efforts to create more public awareness in the hoosiers world i'll call it not a data piece our data disburse reduce are in the front row but at the office of economic workforce development we've had access to inspectors get an account and put this on the website so we we talk about data all the data will think synced up that data will not be if you try to break down the data f it won't line up because if it's a final certificate certificate of the occupancy so as we get to the end of the year we'll have more to sync that up that's a meter to make it ease for people to look at easily. >> thank you commissioner antonini. >> yeah. a few observations i noticed that peter cowen talked about a lot of projects approved but not being built there maybe some of those i'm not sure they're not but this year a good year for projects approved over the last 12 years they're getting approved now the funding has come through and a lot of them under construction. i just wanted to ask staff for a definition with when we talk about unit built that's our fing

there is this world economic forum its opening being a hoosier with the chinese prime minister coming this tuesday. this was billed as a big celebration of nigeria leapfrog being soft and he mentioned that income inequality. the house in the have nots in nigeria go a long way towards explaining what's going on with full color on. do you believe that to nigeria becoming the world's that can skew the continent's top economy is something worth celebrating in this current context. it's it's an interesting question in a tough one to this end time and you know forty percent of the indigenous population in the pool ricky on the deposit and the cheese something terrible. and then efforts being made to answer is that it's not easy to make the country completely over tea free. i mean i see homeless people in thirty minutes. in also. we have to know we have to put things in perspective. do you want economic forum being held in abuja for the first time since its creation. into the land. he's a big leap for west africa and for nigerian practically her. i believe that this occasion we did go for th

but i wanted standards in indiana to be written by hoosiers for hoosiers and to be uncommonly high and to get your reaction to this, since 2011, governors of states who are democrats have enacted over $58 billion worth of tax increases. meanwhile, as you can see screen right, $36 billion of cuts to taxes by republicans. >> i think we've heard that before. >> it sounds like one party wants to raise your taxes and the other party wants to lower them. >> it explains why in 29 states led by republican governors, you're seeing the kind of growth that we're seeing. i'm proud that indiana has the lowest unemployment rate in the midwest. we've been able to pass balanced budgets, have strong reserves, invest increased funding in roads and schools and education innovation. but since i was elected governor, we've also passed some $650 million in annual tax relief. and all of that creates an environment where we're seeing real growth in indiana. we got one of the fastest growing labor forces in the country, unemployment is on the downward trend and more hoosiers are going back to work. i think the

they went to the winners bract to face the indiana hoosiers.fl, davis not at the team's otas because he is holding out for a new contract. he says he might be at the team's camp in june. the heat, they reached into the pacers' heart. pulled it out, showed it to them, and then they chucked it. game six, a little frisky at the start, but not at the finish. second quarter, pacers george hill misses badly. lebron james rebound ahead. d. wade, forget about it. 117-92. they advance to the nba finals for the fourth straight year eliminating indiana three straight years running. to the ice. la kings looking to move to the stanley cup finals. but they had to beat chicago in white. and the black hawks patrick cane wouldn't let it happen tonight. they beat the kings 4-3 forcing a game seven in the windy city on sunday. and we take time out to say congratulations to the alhambra girls softball sectionals in division two. they won 5-0. royce in baseball beat saint joe's. third straight sectional title in division 5. >> we'll be back. >> all right. ,,,,,, gr

mid- term primary in the hoosier state don't historically draw a lot of supporters. the most divisive race including whether to a mend indiana's constitution to ban same- sex marriage. >> the next story is potentially impactful. new questions raised in the benghazi investigation. kathryn harris is responding to a fox news report in the days after the attack on americans in benghazi. and may suggest and spin what happened. others obviously disagreement the e-mail is with held by the administration. earlier on happening now, south carolina senator lindsay graham had to this is a about it. >> the new e-mail, all i can say there is a continuing pattern of deception, and delay and stone walling and we'll see where it goes. >> we'll look closer at the political fallout potentially of all of this. >> we are awaiting new reaction from law makers as a critical vote in the house. at issue whether to hold lois lerner contempt of congress on the tax agencies targeting of conservative groups. mike emmanuel joins us live from capitol hill. where are we in the house's consideration

someone from liverpool or washingtonian or hoosier for someone from indiana. that seems to be sticking but a lot of people use that as their final arbiter whether you have created a word or not and it's interesting if you go to the oxford dictionary the oxford english dictionardictionar y says i was the first one to use it in the english language. now they are fairly dubious. one i am credited with is water picked as a verb and a piece of fiction i once wrote i said so-and-so woke up in the morning and the water picked his teeth. somehow they laid that on me and i have no responsibility for it. they also laid on me strange levy and an adjective pertaining to the world of dr. strangelove. the whole dr. strangelove phenomenon. then there's another one a body part turned into a verb which i will probably not to mention given the cameras are rolling. and i'm credited with that and it was not mine either. my favorite one is phyllis richmond is an old friend of mine who is a writer and the food editor of the "washington post" for many years. she is hounded at the fa

hoosier for indiana. and that sort of seems to be thinking. but the oxford english dictionary, a lot of people use that as the final arbiter of whether you've created a word or not. and it's interesting, if you go to the oxford english dictionary, i'm credited with three first uses, which means the oxford english dictionary says i was the first one to use it in the english language. now, they're fairly dubious. one i was, i'm credited with is waterpicked as a verb. in a little piece of fiction i once wrote, i said so and so woke up in the morning and waterpicked his teeth, and somehow they laid that one on me, and i have no respondent for it. they -- responsibility for it. they also laid on me strangelove an, and then there's another one for a body part turned into a verb which i'll probably not mention given the cameras are rolling. [laughter] and this is going out to a family audience. and i was crepted with that, and it -- credited with that, and it wasn't mine either. but phyllis richmond is an old friend of mine who's a writer, she was th

. >> i yield one minute to the gentlelady from the hoosier state, many walorski. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. miss walorski: i want to thank chairman miller for his work to reform this mismanaged department. our soldiers and their families never hesitated to serve our country. recent reports are disgusting and disgrateful -- disgraceful. we know of dozens of wrongful deaths due to negligence including 13 in my state of indiana. those who oversee this negligence are more likely to receive a bonus than punishment this bill would give the v.a. secretary authority to fire senior employees responsible for failures within this department. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this bill and i'll continue to do my part on the oversight and fighting for the nation's 23 million veterans. i also call on the senate today to bring greater accountability and transparency to the v.a. by passing the numerous bipartisan bills that have left this house, including this one, that are stalled, that could be stalled in the senate. our veterans deserve nothing bu

. >> my family, a bunch of hoosiers over there, and i like to see a little bit -- it's not civil disobedience, it's civil shenanigans because everyone can identify with that. new yorkers, if you look right outside your studio, trucks are losing hubcaps and breaking suspensions. >> can you imagine if they did that out here? everyone in new york -- on sixth avenue here, they drive 80 miles an hour. so you just go out there -- >> it would be like a video game. >> it would be. it would be awful. but you recognize that. this is something this guy is doing and you can relate to and appreciate. >> i can totally appreciate because sometimes it takes an individual pointing out something totally absurd in order for stuff to get done. you know, you see it with kids having lemonade stands. any time the government says you're suspended from school because you brought a butter knife and ridiculous things like that, unfortunately these have to be brought to national attention before policies change. and it shouldn't take that. >> i just hope someone doesn't use this, see, i told you we need more money becau

ooten, aouldn't -- w hoosier, communicated the same message in a slightly different way.he said into by end, life is a cinch. yard by yard, life is hard. both quotes teach inessential lesson. to reach her goals, you must move past the abstract world of dreams and start doing the specific tasks needed to achieve them. when you begin working with specifics, it is amazing how quickly progress comes. let me give you an example from my own life. it was my 27th birthday and i had just heard this inspiring speech from henry marsh. i was two years and my locks where, feeling very uninspired by the work i was doing. i was ready for a career change. as i assessed my options at that crossroads, my biggest interests were coaching basketball, working in movies, and serbian politics. politics. in a career in basketball was unlikely. the movies were out too. that left me with politics. as a trained lawyer, it seemed like a reasonable option. i left my steady job, focused on the specific tasks, and entered andcade-plus of twists turns that led me here today. my first job was as an unpaid

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. >> i yield one minute to the gentlelady from the hoosier state, many walorski. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. miss walorski: i want to thank chairman miller for his work to reform this mismanaged department. our soldiers and their families never hesitated to serve our country. recent reports are disgusting and disgrateful -- disgraceful. we know of dozens of wrongful deaths due to negligence including 13 in my state of indiana. those who oversee this negligence are more likely to receive a bonus than punishment this bill would give the v.a. secretary authority to fire senior employees responsible for failures within this department. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this bill and i'll continue to do my part on the oversight and fighting for the nation's 23 million veterans. i also call on the senate today to bring greater accountability and transparency to the v.a. by passing the numerous bipartisan bills that have left this house, including this one, that are stalled, that could be stalled in the senate. our veterans deserve nothing bu

hoosier past, tennessee pass before you get dumped down and to the eagle river valley. so the obvious reason for this kind of varying directors were higher rates. we will go back and really emphasize how high those ranges were running north and south directly west of denver that basically deflected highway routes to the north and south. this is a picture of the upper end of the book. back in the late 1940's. as you can see, later interstate 70. basically and impassible wall between eagle county from summit county and from denver beyond. so topography is an obvious reason why these counties were so remote and why there was not a direct route, but it was not just geography. summit and eagle or mining counties, but they were never as big a deal as some of the other. never as prosperous. perfect set when railroads built up into the high country the bill to the biggest most prosperous, racing each other to get there. and so when the first road camelot, often times it was start out by falling more or less the railroad route emphasizing eagle or summit county. it was not just

and traveling across indiana, i hear these stories from hoosiers over and over. businessmen and women, owners who are reducing hours, laying off hardworking employees, closing their doors because of that's costly retirements. they're very seriously considering dropping any employer-covered insurance whatsoever. they are reducing their workforce, if it's possible, to below 29 hours a workweek so that they don't have to do insurance. one national chain has publicly basically stated that they've put all of their employees -- this is a national chain; we're talking about tens of thousands of employeesder the combles -- l of their imphees on 29-hour-a-week work schedules so they don't have to subject them to the restrictions imposed upon them under the obamacare act. well, i don't know how many of these stories we have to share here before we get some ability given to us to try to make some reforms, replacements or positive solutions to the problems that we face. republicans have met in caucus. we have some alternatives. we would like to have them considered. but in t

great work is being done in the hoosier state, but anti-trafficking advocates agree that much more is needed. that's why i'm proud to co-sponsor the justice for victims of trafficking act and proud to support the bills being voted on today. this bill will provide law enforcement with necessary tools to address the problem of trafficking by helping tackle the demand issue itself and improve services for survivors. it also protects foster children by requiring that the national center for missing and exploited children be notified when children are missing from foster homes or childcare institutions. madam speaker, protecting people trapped in trafficking situations is not a partisan or political issue. it's not an issue that only happens overseas. it happens on american soil and it happens every day all across this country. we must work together to fight this issue, to be the voice for those who are literally trapped and to bring an end to this terrible crime. i urge my colleagues to support the anti-trafficking bills on the floor today, and i yield back the balance of my time. the spe

academy of muncie in my district, one of 76 charter schools in indiana, serving more than 28,000 hoosier students. i was impressed with what i saw. a diverse group of students actively engaged in learning, teachers pioneering, fresh -- pioneering fresh teaching methods and parents heavily involved in their child's education. in the declaration of independence, our founding fathers wrote that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. chief among those rights is the right to pursue happiness. in modern america, that pursuit begins with a high quality education. we cannot rest until every child in america has that chance. i urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. sanchez. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for three minutes. ms. sanchez: thank you, mr. chairman. rye is -- i rise in support of h.r. 10, the success and opportunity through quality charter schools

i welcome the chance to discuss how these ideas who help hoosiers and americans who are struggling in this economy. and i know that many of my colleagues are also eager for the opportunity to discuss and debate real solutions to help our workforce. there are a number of proposals that are -- that have been brought to this floor by my colleagues. senator portman, who sits at the desk next to me, and others have put forward meaningful proposals that we ought to be debating. we shouldn't be talking about nothing can get done because it is an election year 2014. you know, let's put stuff out here that makes the other side look bad. we ought to set that aside and say for the sake of the future of this country and for all of those seeking work that they'll have it. let's debate the real stuff. let's work together to pass something that will make our country stronger and our economy better. one of my former colleagues once said -- and i quote -- "our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of oppo