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, because everybody hated hcla and they can't hate mama. now it's called cms. those acronyms are going to ring in your ears. cms. cer is going to be the holy grail by which cms grabs this comparative effective research, and if we aim right at cost-cutting only, they will determine, not you and your determine, how many mris you might have, how many x-rays you might have. all the duplicate things we know add to cost. regardless of the circumstance, mark my words, the way it is written now and the way the secretary of health and human services, a good friend of mine, kathleen sebelius has stated it, cer is going to be used -- its main purpose is going to be cost. if we do that, mr. chairman, we're headed for trouble. because that decision between you and your doctor will be taken away. i'm offering several amendments, mr. chairman, which i hope my colleagues will consider seriously and also hopefully accept. in an attempt to improve upon this bill. they'll include provisions to protect patient choice. the patient-doctor relationship. ensure th
, because everybody hated hcla and they can't hate mama. now it's called cms. those acronyms are going to ring in your ears. cms. cer is going to be the holy grail by which cms grabs this comparative effective research, and if we aim right at cost-cutting only, they will determine, not you and your determine, how many mris you might have, how many x-rays you might have. all the duplicate things we know add to cost. regardless of the circumstance, mark my words, the way it is written now and the...
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the abba -- the abba musicel, "mama mia" which is being performed at the winter garden theater whereonderful town was performed. and i'm not about to pass judgment on the quality of broadway musicals or the taste of the people who attend them but it seems there's been some noticeable decline between wonderful town and mama mia but that's ju!Ñq me. but, you know, it was -- it was a d('le expense at least which is fortunate because broadway plays were not cheap. those were the plays they saw when they were in new york. >> my other question is, rarely, did we see pictures of bess truman without her hat on. >> yeah, bess liked her hats. >> was she wearing her hats riding shotgun to new york and o back? >>vjlj she have it on in the cover. yeah, she does. she does on the cover. and i guess -- i was a little curious when they said the 11 pieces of luggage that harry packed into the chrysler, whether they counted the hat boxes as a separate piece of luggage because they would tend to mitigate the overpacking thing if they count the hat boxes as a separate piece of luggage. bess, did likehsw
the abba -- the abba musicel, "mama mia" which is being performed at the winter garden theater whereonderful town was performed. and i'm not about to pass judgment on the quality of broadway musicals or the taste of the people who attend them but it seems there's been some noticeable decline between wonderful town and mama mia but that's ju!Ñq me. but, you know, it was -- it was a d('le expense at least which is fortunate because broadway plays were not cheap. those were the plays...
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[laughter] and we know exactly what it means to take your mama with you program looking at share ande just came in with her mom, her grand mom? fed has beene1 extraordinary, the whole experience for black women to tell us their feelings about the first lady and something about the title of the book people always ask us about that. "go, tell michelle" it started out as dear michele, letters of love and support and encouragement but we send it into the publisher but they said how about this title? we don't want anyone bossing us around but we boughtlp it. those of us who like poetry we said it is not just go tell michelle but go tell it on the mound 10. so doing a little research and finding now calling the publisher back but there has to be a, after the word go and it signifies that we were either identifying
[laughter] and we know exactly what it means to take your mama with you program looking at share ande just came in with her mom, her grand mom? fed has beene1 extraordinary, the whole experience for black women to tell us their feelings about the first lady and something about the title of the book people always ask us about that. "go, tell michelle" it started out as dear michele, letters of love and support and encouragement but we send it into the publisher but they said how about...
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this project will connect 3 major western metro mama ted -- metropolitan regions. each project meeting the criteria set up by our commission. this takes leadership and courage to get it done. it can be done and should be done. having grown up in south dakota, it would have been nice to take a 60 minute train lied for my thanksgiving holiday but instead i was stuck at home in a. it because we had to travel by car. these systems will be costly to design but we can do this. this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have something for this policy to commander -- consider. we must agree upon a bold new vision and make a cultural shift in the way we do transportation, a vision the american public can invest in and believe in and includes passenger rail that connect america like the eisenhower interstate highway system. we must do today what our parents and grandparents did for us. invest in a new vision. reform the current program and revolutionize the way we do transportation policy and funding. we must reduce the time it takes to deliver a rail project in t
this project will connect 3 major western metro mama ted -- metropolitan regions. each project meeting the criteria set up by our commission. this takes leadership and courage to get it done. it can be done and should be done. having grown up in south dakota, it would have been nice to take a 60 minute train lied for my thanksgiving holiday but instead i was stuck at home in a. it because we had to travel by car. these systems will be costly to design but we can do this. this is the united...
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Jun 23, 2009
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center hatch and i have worked on issues on mama is going back to 1994. when we both entered, will meet both introduced the shea bill. i know of his strong support for wallace activities. so, i think there has been some really pretty good suggestions that i have seen from the other side on this. not all knowledge reside here with one person or one staff grouping, but the process i think it's going to lead is towards having some significant reforms, reforms, changes in wellness and prevention. but, i will again repeat, nothing comes free. nothing is free. there's no free lunch here. freer pointage dude we are going to have to put some bucks behind it and if we get into a match where to put the box behind it were quantitate the bugs out of medicare or medicaid or existing structures, propension will never get there so we have got to set the structure up, we have got to fund it. we have got to provide the kind of best practices that senator mikulski has come up with intersection in terms of comparative effectiveness and we have got to do the same thing with
center hatch and i have worked on issues on mama is going back to 1994. when we both entered, will meet both introduced the shea bill. i know of his strong support for wallace activities. so, i think there has been some really pretty good suggestions that i have seen from the other side on this. not all knowledge reside here with one person or one staff grouping, but the process i think it's going to lead is towards having some significant reforms, reforms, changes in wellness and prevention....
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and he walked about 10 feet back into the house and i heard him yell out -- he said mama, get out hereou know that little gal that had been leading that fight against that tax in nashville, she's on the front porch and she is a little bitty. thing [laughter] >> but, you know, that is such a good example for it. i didn't look like anything he would expect to be a leader. he later said, honey, i thought you were going to be a big old tall something. [laughter] >> and i didn't look like the embodiment he would think of as a leader. because it was hot. and he was in my tennis shoes working door to door and this was pretty late in the day. but the point is, leadership today is not as it appears. people don't want to say well, they just look like a leader who would come from central casting. what they want is somebody who is going to take action and solve problems and get the job done. margaret thatcher said it best, you want something said, ask a man. you want something done, ask a woman. [laughter] all you guys in the room, we'll let you stay here because next component, leaders are team-b
and he walked about 10 feet back into the house and i heard him yell out -- he said mama, get out hereou know that little gal that had been leading that fight against that tax in nashville, she's on the front porch and she is a little bitty. thing [laughter] >> but, you know, that is such a good example for it. i didn't look like anything he would expect to be a leader. he later said, honey, i thought you were going to be a big old tall something. [laughter] >> and i didn't look...
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she said, wow, mama, it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] we are living in this incredible time when the pace of change seems to be speeding up. new devices are being developed in -- at an astonishing pace. five years ago, youtube and twitter did not exist, they spoke existed but was hardly the behemoth, and no one was using e-readers. i do not think it would suppress any of us to imagine that our people out there now developing new technologies we can barely imagine. technology but enhances our lives, and at the same time infiltrates our lives it in ways we may not have anticipated. it frees you to work everywhere but d.c. prisoners and others. parents for years have battled with kids of atomic and spent on computers and video games into day students are sometimes fighting a parents to get them off their blackberry. "the wall street journal" have a great article a couple of years ago on a subject, describing one family and texas -- and this woman is 7 year old talks about the blackberry -- i feel annoyed, -- always focusing on th
she said, wow, mama, it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] we are living in this incredible time when the pace of change seems to be speeding up. new devices are being developed in -- at an astonishing pace. five years ago, youtube and twitter did not exist, they spoke existed but was hardly the behemoth, and no one was using e-readers. i do not think it would suppress any of us to imagine that our people out there now developing new technologies we can barely imagine....