mr. casey: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise, first of all, to thank senator donnelly for his leadership and my colleagues. i'm speaking today on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people in pennsylvania who currently or will rely upon a pension. multiemployer pension programs protect about ten million workers and retirees across about 1,400 pension plans across the country. in pennsylvania that number is 230 multiemployer pension plan with 109,000 rites. -- recipients. many are at risk. in 2017, the pension benefit guaranty corporation paid $462 million to pennsylvanians whose pension plans have failed. that's about $5,000 800 on average. democrats in the senate have been fighting to preserve these earned benefits for our retirees for years, including the nation's coal miners. the fight for coal miners is just half won. we were successful in making sure that their promised health care benefits were there for them, but we

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mr. casey: thank you, mr. chairman. privileged to introduce dr. murphy. dr. murphy is chief innovation officer at geisinger health system. i know her from our hometown. and she has a long record of service in health care. she served our state as pennsylvania's secretary of health. she was president and c.e.o. of the moses taylor health care system, which is just blocks from my home. her education is substantial. doctor of philosophy and business administration from temples fox school of bills. and m.b.a. from marywood university. my mother and my daughter and my sisters will want me to mention marywood. a bachelor of arts from the university of scranton. and a nursing diploma. so whether it's nursing itself, which was her calling, as well as a real commitment to the reform and the health care delivery system, in so many ways karen has brought a passion and a degree of excellence to these issues that i think is unmatched. o, karen, dr. murphy, welcome. mr. hatch: thank you for rounding off our introductions. i'd also like to thank the witnesses for being here

will face mr. caseyu won't have a lot of interest party officials, state party officials, he will his a lot of money in overs and the familiar name of donald trump, according robo call in this primary and endorsed barletta earlier in the year. they are close to each other. appearanceswill see from the president on the ground in pennsylvania once the general moves on. you have a sitting governor there, tom wolf, democrat there. what are challengers to him? guest: three of them. two who you would consider front-runners, but they have run an ugly race. state senator wagner, who owns trash hauling business. he calls himself the garbage man. retired healthcare consultant paul mango, who sort on the from nowhere political landscape, they have race.entious analyst told me he had never anything like this. off rd panelist could pull upset. laura elsworth, she calls for lf the other candidate people sick of the back and forth and punch throwing. should be interesting, a lot of telling me governor wolf is laughing

mr. seran? >> john casey seran, and i go my casey. i just want to say i live and nearby. i go to work however. there's a lot of times where i cannot find a scooter today, so i do not think the cap is a great way of understanding what is good usage and how we're going to actually optimize this. i think if we have not even 12 months of not even full usage, it's going to be difficult to make better decisions. i also think the requirements of the scooter companies, they're technology companies in my mind, and i think they have the ability to access data around misuse of their own probabl products. we heard some of the technology around sharing this information. i think they are responsible for tracking and identifying how people are misusing them, as well. we've heard testimony of them left in inappropriate places. i think it would be not too chaling to share these users or nonusers that are moving these scooters after being used, and use getting smarter about using technology and making better decisions, instead of saying we'll do it later and putting off the cap. >> thank you. next speaker, plea

. >> senator casey. >> mr. chairman, thanks very much. mr. secretary, good to have you here. thank you. i've been in and out of the hearing this morning, i know a number of members of the committee have raised issues that relate to broadband and in particular rural broadband. i live in a state where we have 67 counties but 48 of them are rural counties. in those rural communities the last number that -- and this gets updated as you know by the fcc, i guess on an annual basis -- the last number i saw was 471,000 rural pennsylvanians, just rural pennsylvanians, don't have access to high speed internet. so it's a huge problem. it's a problem in the context of small businesses obviously, in the context of the ag economy. it's also a problem for children in schools that happen to be in rural pennsylvania. i know you understand that. it's positive news that the $600 million initiative was passed for broadband grant -- the broadband grant and loan pilot program to be administered by the rural utility service. we're grateful that happened for so-called unserved as opposed to underser

mrs. hill, welcome. >> thank you, chairman collins, ranking member casey and members of the committee. thank you so much for this opportunity to testify today, it's a real honor to be here. my name is sharon hill, i'm 63 years old and a resident of vanderbilt, pennsylvania. i have two sons and seven grandchildre grandchildren. my youngest grandchild logan was born tuesday. my granddaughter august has joined me here today. she's a volunteer with me at many senior centers i go to. i am a volunteer with the pennsylvania apprise program. nationally apprise is known as the state health insurance assistance program, ship. i also work cleaning my church and i care for my 89-year-old father and help care for my 92-year-old neighbor who is blind. i have a disability myself and rely on the support of state and federal programs to remain active and engaged in my communit community. >> i initially saw an add in our local senior times newspaper asking for volunteers to help people with medicare issues. at that time i was on medicare due to a disability and had recently been left with $67,000 in med

mr. borland. >> thank you. chairman collins, ranking member casey and members of the special committee. i am jim borland, acting deputy commissioner for communications with the social security administration. thank you for inviting me to discuss how we provide information to help workers and their family members decide when to claim social security retirement benefit and went to enroll in medicare. these decisions are important and we are mindful of our responsibility to provide information to help her claimants make informed choices. we believe that workers need to be thinking about their claiming decisions before they arrived at the field office. this is why our outreach and education efforts are crucial. the decisions workers make about starting retirement benefit are very important as they will effect payment amounts for the rest of their lives. for this reason, even before the individuals apply for social security benefits or enroll in medicare, we provide objective information that they may use to plan for retirement. we do this in a variety of ways including our website publicati

casey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. a privilege to introduce doctor murphy. doctor murphy is chief innovation officer at the health system and i know her from our hometown and she has a long record of service in healthcare and served our state as secretary of health and president and ceo of the moses taylor healthcare system which is box for my home and her education is substantial. doctor of philosophy in business administration from temples business school and my mother and my daughter and my sisters would want me to mention marywood. a bachelor of arts from the university of scranton in a nursing diploma. whether it's nursing itself which was her calling as well as a real commitment to the reform in the healthcare delivery system in so many ways karen has brought a passion and a degree of excellence to these issues that is unmatched. welcome. >> thank you senator casey for running off our introduction. we also like to thank the witnesses for being here today and in the testimony and in advance and the flexibility members will be moving in and out of today'

casey. we'll get there, mr. speaker. the work done by mr. smith and others and thankfully the present administration get us closer to that day. i applaud this decision. i thank the gentleman from new jersey and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. smith: it is now an honor and privilege to introduce a member of the house armed services committee, natural resources, doug lamborn. mr. lamb: the trump administration is -- mr. lamborn: the trump administration is set to announced proposed regulations involving the title x family funding stream, similar to reagan-era rules. this is good news and something i have been strongly urging president trump and the secretary to do. i think it is important to remind our sess of something very basic. family planning should determine when to begin new life. abortion ends life. abortion should never be considered an ethical method of family planning. under the new proposed rule, counseling or referral for abortion would no longer be required for family planning grantees and co-location with abortion provi

mr. rummel says sending daily thanks in a one on one message is an alternative use for social media for generation zsot rummel/leadership high school gratitude curriculum: "this is a way to use a type of social media that is strictly positive">it is also away for male students to descreetly give props to one another, something their teacher says can be rather awkward in a group settingsot stand up haaziq madyun/@kron4hmadyun 1:52-1:58the three months research phase of the give thanks curriculm has ended. the data has been sent to researchers who are looking over the results. however after witnessing the positive results in the classroom, mr. rummel has decided to extend the give thanks program and his students are grateful for that decision...in richmond haaziq madyun...kron4news (pam) coming up: a woman badly hurt in a accident.. losing her ear. remarkably... how