that is secretary sibelius' decision to review. know you did not direct the question to me, that i do want to editorialize this for second on guns. i think all of your mexican counterparts understand and as i spoke with president pena nieto, we recognize we have obligations when it comes to guns that are often times being shifted down south and contribute into violence in mexico. but frankly, what i am most moved by are the victims of gun violence in mexico and back home. i said the day the legislation that was proposed, the date it failed to get 60 votes, that was not the end, but the beginning. it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get that. things happen somewhat slowly in washington. this is only the first round. when you have got 90% of the american people supporting the initiative that we put forward on background checks and making sure that they cannot just send someone with a clean record to buy a gun on their behalf, when have commonsense legislation like that but the overwhelming majority of americans, including gun owners, those of u

secretary sibelius has pointed that out in the administration proposals.ll be required if we are to put medicare on a sustainable long-run path. let me close by saying, as who hason the platform been up close and personal with medicare for 10 months, and with social security for a bit longer -- i can attest to the critical importance of these programs. we need to ensure that they are made sustainable for current as well as future generations of beneficiaries and taxpayers. thank you. >> [indiscernible] the recent role of healthcare costs, and what that has played in the projections, and whether it is a permanent benefit for medicare? >> i think there are some recent reports of economists who have looked at what is the third of significant slowdown in healthcare costs, not only in medicare, but in medicaid and the private health sector are. the most common interpretation is that while some of the early slowdown was thought to be contributing -- contributed to only by the recession -- that as these cost reductions are astained, and particularly you look at t

to one another issue, i wouldn't be very, very curious if it weren't for the fact that secretary sibeliusct together, but the disparity has me. what's your beef with dick durbin? >> went onen fo on "fox news su" and he was asked, you were demanding that they investigate a conservative policy group, and dick durbin, to his credit, didn't back down like other democrats, and he said, yeah, i admit that, and chris wallace asked, why didn't you ask you about liberal groups, and he said i thought if they investigated them the rest of the rest. ifç the irs was investigatingpm crossroads, that i helped raise money for as a volunteer, the only people laughing would be liberal 501(c)(4)s, operating for decades in the way across roads gps did.ç durbin had no clear defense. heç wanted to target acros cros because we're a conservative group and he's a liberal. he said they were boasting about raising a lot of money. that's not true. the only thing that comes close, on october 13th, after he sent his letter to the irs, two days after he sent the letter to the irs, that after president obama attacked

kathleen sibelius and janet napolitano.hey were governors of very red states and are leading cabinets incredibly well as secretaries. wave good pool of women who could take this on. >> a lot of women on the reproductive issue are not at all happy with what the white house has done. a tough issue. the morning after pill counter manneding the fda. >> and as we, i always want to step back here and think about what president obama has done in opening up health care options for women in this country. the fact that the health care reform came through not only ensuring that i as a woman was not a preexisting condition but covering birth control for millions and millions of women in this country is a fantastic thing. i'm glad we're having this conversation. these are conversations we need to be having in this country. and i certainly hope at the end of the day to be quite honest, that science will overrule politics here. but i think a conversation we should be having and i think we have to keep pushing the envelope. >> madam presid

in the press there certainly is a lot of talk about the hub was not funded and secretary sibelius has done that out of her discretionary fund. what else do we know about that? we know there has been a debate, senator harkin was quite concerned about the money out of the prevention fund to certain activities to essentially find the resources necessary. the estimates for what was required by treasury, by hhs and other agencies was quite substantial and there is no question it had an impact on their ability and potentially going forward the ability of treasury for example to participate in the required information sharing could well have an impact. >> anybody else? >> not as much in maryland because of the way the law was written for state based exchange and away the funding goes. >> we will see this in the federal one. >> i don't think we know the exact numbers. we do know there was money in the original legislation and we know it was a petition to take care of all of the costs associated with implementation, more money is needed and it seems a peculiar strategy of governance to make le

secretary sibelius has been to do that -- had to do that out of discretionary funds. what is doing no but that? -- what else do we know about that? >> there is any concern about the move of money out of the prevention fund to find the resources necessary. the estimate for what was required by treasury by hhs and other agencies was substantial. there is no question that it has had an impact on their ability, and going forward, the ability of treasury to participate in the required information sharing. it could well have an impact. >> not as much in maryland, because of the way the law is written. >> i think we will see this in the federal ones. the don't think we know exact numbers. we know there was money in the original legislation. i think we know it was insufficient to take care of all withe costs associated implementation. more money is needed, and it seems a peculiar strategy of governance to try and make legislation faile by appropriating so little money that it cannot be properly administered. that is a luddite approach to politics. it is deplorable. >> it is o

the first time around are there was no age restrictions, secretary sibelius expressed concerns and ipported those oncerns. i gave voice to them back in a ress room back in d.c. i -- the role that has been put forward by the fda secretary sibelius has shown choose comfortable with it. i'm very comfortable with contraception. it is important that women have control over their healthcare choices and when they are starting a family. that is their decision to make. we want to make sure they have access to contraception. we have a little bit of a fuss around what we're doing with the affordable care act. but i think that is the right thing to do. the current ruling, you phrase it as prohibiting, but i phrase it as they are now allowing contraception to be sold over-the-counter for 15-year-olds and older. it does not resolve the question of girls younger than 15. there was a court case that came up that is being appealed by the justice department that is a justice department decision. my understanding is part of it has to do with the president and the way in which the judge handled that cas

secretary sibelius says the country is on track and they will be rolled out.t is very different in different states. some have not embraced, so it will be handled differently. host: is your test like a pet -- is your state like a past state? asst: we are doing this best as we can. there is a lot of choice for a state to figure out how much education is required. with my background, i think the more education happens i had so that they understand -- most people have not taken advantage of opportunities to stay healthy, and that is what we want to have in front of people. healthier lives is the goal. host: redding, california. and, republican line. twoer: i watched one of our local health -- heart surgeons talk about obamacare last weekend and he stated in the federal guidelines we have 21 part surgeons listed to -- heart surgeons listed to serve our area, and in fact we have two, and the interesting part is the two active surgeons were not listed in the directory. , itypical government work is wrong. all of the information is wrong. we hardly have any doctors u

this is what i call the kathryn sibelius shakedown. what i want to know is what issue promising those businesses she talks to and what is to threatening them with? kathleen sibelius has been found in nowation of the hack chack companies anddown executives throughout the country. looking for money to cover over the train wreck happening with the president health care law. but nothing scares the american people like the letters irs. if the reports of the last 24 hours are true, including the one senator hatch just made irs anditing the getting misinformation back. report yesterday was the the acting commissioner stephen miller learned about this in may of 2012. in responding to members of the house, senate, and a committee in the house, failed to answer the question what information he had. if pastor and he was aware of the the conservative groups are being targeted and was asked about that and gave incorrect information, he should step aside or be removed. this is something we should not tolerate. the american people would not want us t

secretary sibelius has pointed that out in the administration proposals.his will be required if we are to put medicare on a sustainable long-run path. let me close by saying, as someone on the platform who has been up close and personal with medicare for 10 months, and with social security for a bit longer, i can attest to the critical importance of these programs. we need to ensure that they are made sustainable for current as well as future generations of beneficiaries and taxpayers. thank you. >> [indiscernible] can you discuss the recent slowdown of healthcare costs, and what that has played in the projections, and whether it is a permanent benefit for medicare? >> i think there are some recent reports of economists who have looked at what is the third year of significant slowdown in healthcare costs, not only in medicare, but in medicaid and the private health sector. the most common interpretation is that while some of the early slowdown was thought to be contributing -- contributed to only by the recession, that as these cost reductions are sustaine

of the scandals unfold, whether it is the concerns about benghazi, the secretarye irs, sibelius makingls soliciting donations from people she will to the doj and ap phonorecords. ofmakes us miss the days harry truman when the bucs stopped at the president's office. i am pleased this week, the house will be doing something positive to try and turn this economy around. i repeal of the obamacare law. as cap he just laid out, the american people were promised some the things and they were misled. we have seen over $1 trillion in tax increases because of the healthcare law, cuts to medicare advantage to prop up the law. we have seen craniums rather than being decreased -- premiums rather than being decreased, increase to the tune of 3000 dollars. most importantly, a drag on the economy and jobs. the uncertainty surrounding the president's health care law has cost about 7 million jobs. or, will cost millions and millions of job. a lot already proven to of people that we will have layoffs. i am pleased the house will be working on the appeal vote today. after months of misleading testimony an