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sh initiative on tax transparency which we'll makeve progress on.i what i will say to him. the reason for replacing with the 45 rate is the 50 rate was not raising proper money. indeed. it raised 7 billion pounds less. that is probably why for tens. years in office, the labor party never put it in place. that is why under theis i government, the 45 rate will be higher than the rate than ever is launched when they wereighe sitting in the casino. >> the widely-disputed economic benefits of hs2 may or may not be realized in 20 years time; however, the anxiety here, this project generates hit my consistents with the announcement of the extended groupings. i now have constints who cannot sell their houses and are uncertain about the future and the potential loss of the 500 million-pound investment and 7,000 jobs in 2016. you address the real concerns of my constints about this project. >> well, i am happy to make surr that what my honorable friend asked for happens. i quite understand when you launch a project like hs2. l it does cause a lot of local it concern and unease. that

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> first, i welcome the fact that the honorable gentleman supports the government's g8 initiative on tax transparencyre going to make some real progress. the reason for replacing the 50p rate with the 45p rate is that the 50p rate was not raising proper money. indeed, it raised £7 billion less. that is probably why for 10 years in office the labour party never put it in place. that is also why under this government the 45p rate will be a higher rate than ever it was when the two croupiers were sitting in the casino. >> the widely disputed economic benefits of hs2 may or may not be realised in 20 years' time. however, the blight, fear and anxiety the project generates hit my constituency on 28 january with the announcement of the extended route. i now have constituents who cannot sell their houses, businesses uncertain about their future and the potential loss of a £500 million private sector investment set to generate 7,000 jobs in 2016. can my right honorable friend ensure that representativesf

we are tracking the process correctly as well as making sure that our value payments and transparency initiatives are working well. finally, we have instituted a patients entered medical home program in midland which is our headquarters. what is exciting about that is, again, we have developed a good metrics. if the metrics are achieved in then we share the savings 50-50 with the co-finders. thank you very much. >> thanks you very much. now we will hear about the health plan perspective which i guess is a good segue to elizabeth, -- elizabeth curren. >> thank you. i have to say, is a privilege to work with such progressive health purchasers. on behalf of aetna, but also as a health purchaser with over 30,000 employees worldwide we commended cpr and the associated health purchasers for their work in demanding transformation of the industry from pay for volume to pay for it value. putting pressure on the industry attract and increase the percentage running through value based contract models is suppressive and a tremendous achievement as we have heard today, but the measure of success of these effo

well, the president promised all sorts of transparency, came out against lobbying initially. when he first ran for office. now here he's doing what democrats have a accused republicans for doing for a long, long time. having these lobbyists and business people being able to contribute unlimited amounts of money. >> first and foremost, the group won't take money from lobbyists. unlike political c-4s, involved in trying to tear down the president's agenda, every contribution and every amount will be disclosed. and -- >> after the fact. >> well you can't disclose it before they give the money. and no corporate contributions will be taken. i think, andrea, it is the best opportunity and the best set of decisions to come to how do you keep millions of people that were excited about the president's agenda and politics involved, obviously that cost money. great care must be taken, though, to insure that as you're doing that, you are not also harming the larger brand. >> you're successor and our buddy, chuck todd were going at it over this at the white house briefing just now. i want

can i welcome the fact that he sports this initiative on tax transparency which we are going to make some real progress. what i would say to him the reason for replacing the rate is the 50-b rate wasn't raising proper money. it raised 7 billion pounds less. that is probably why in 10 years in office, the labour party never put it in place and that is why under this government, the 45-b rate will be higher than when the two of them were sitting in the casino. >> the widely benefits may or may not be realized in 20 years' time. the anxiety that this project generates hit on the 20th of january. and concerns over houses and businesses uncertain and potential loss of the private sector investment, can you ensure that representatives visit my constituencies about this project? >> i'm happy to make sure that what my honorable friend asked for happens. i quite understand that when you launch a project like hs-2 concerns ease. we are putting a large national consultation and put in place a very generous compensation scheme. if we are going to win in the global race economically, we have to m

transparency. you talked internationally and we are talking on u.s. soil. you say it was heroic. why? >> the senate refused to really talk about it. even the questioning of john brennan, the initial questioning and hearing was really cloaked in such politics that i was wondering almost what do these people, what are they afraid to say and why aren't they afraid to say that he was killed in addition his father. why aren't they saying these vast numbers of people have been killed by drones over the last four years. it took this 13-hour marathon to get people to start talking about it. to get senators to talk about it at least. >> gloria borger, do the john mccain and lindsay grahams, do they have a point? this is serious policy. they are talking and saying look, i don't know if this could be someone anti-american or against the president or shoots an e-mail to his cousin in the mideast and all of a sudden, red flags start flying and the government wants to take this person out without due process and saying that's not okay. do they have a valid point there? >> i think what the point was the way i was hearing it, don't belittle the real issue. everybody knows the laws and the presid

in response, i initiated the most public and most, free handson if post election review of any national party. we wanted an assessment of that is frank, thorough, and transparentwe had to be honest with ourselves and with our voters. we wanted to build our party. we want to do it with bolder strokes to show that we're up to the challenge and that we are done with business as usual. last week i received the opportunities project report and there to under 19 recommendations. there is no one reason we lost. our message was week. we were not conclusive. we were behind and assets and digital. our primary process and needed improvements. there is no one solution. there is a long list of them. today i am going to focus primarily on the five most important areas where we think we need to take immediate, substantive actions, the demographic partners, campaign mechanics, technology, and the primary process. i want to point out that the recommendations are not limited to those five areas are even to the rnc. they can all learn something from this report. each of them is going to have a role to play. we are in the campaign business. our task will be to reach out to the mo

we have been transparent inside this department and with the american people, about the consequences of sequestration. this has been a nearly two-year conversation initially, as no surprise to anyone that these kinds of decisions are coming down the page. >> , go back to karzai's comment? is secretary hagel worried about the morale on the ground about u.s. troops? we are over there trying to train the afghan army and that they'll figure the same as karzai is telling his own people that you're working with the enemy. is that something is expressed in is worried about, what kind of effect that has on the 6000 troops so they are. >> anytime there's allegations made that have no basis in fact can have an effect in many of been nice to include troop morale. of course the secretary would be worried about effects on morale. we saw first hand in jalalabad and bagram and i'll swear that our troops are deeply committed to this tradition. they continue to take their fight to the enemy and appear to be unwavering in their dedication to their mission. as you know, he did a troop talk and 72 and thanked them for their service. it was the start of that he didn't have ma

transparency, we usually come out of it very well. where it doesn't, we stumble and bumble along. .. done, given higher costs for failing to bring down initiative you think and be done to further reducing? let me start with david. >> i guess number one i would say i'm not sure if anything changes. if you look at our track record since the beginning of the jet age, the early '60s, and early 60s to today jet aircraft are about 70% more fuel-efficient than they were then. without caps, without creating other things, it's because of environmental pressures are perfectly aligned with the financial pressures, as you know, on an airline where 35% of the cost is fuel. the only way you can try to maximize profitability, or one of the ways, is by having more fuel-efficient aircraft. for every percent of fuel efficiency, you get 1% reduction in carbon emissions or emissions. so there's a huge incentives on the industry today to continuously improve environmental performance of our products, because we need that in order to have financial success. i don't see that trend changing. if you look at again from the engine perspective, there's kind of a history o

and in response i initiated the most public and most comprehensive postelection review in the history of any national party. we wanted an assessment that was frank, thorough and transparent. to get a fresh start, we had to be honest with ourselves and with our voters. we want to build our party, and we want to do it with bold strokes to show that we're up to the challenge and we're done with business as usual. last week i received the growth and opportunities project's report and their 219 recommendations. as it makes clear, there's no one reason we lost. our message was weak, our ground game was insufficient. we weren't inclusive, we were behind in both data and ding that, and our primary -- ding that, and our primary and debate process needed improvement. so there's no one solution, there's a long list of them. today i'm going to focus primarily on the five most important areas where we think that we need to take immediate, substantive actions; messaging, demographic partners, campaign mechanics, technology and the primary process. but first, i want to point out that the project's recommendations are not limited to those five areas or even to the rnc. our state parties

initiatives? how many people are being helped? how many are getting jobs? how long are they staying in jobs? it is where we need the transparency and then judged by outcomes i think from what i heard -- my worry is if you overregulate the processes, you may actually find you're not going to get good businesses coming in to run and find value for money where government needs it. by publishing outcomes i think is far more powerful. that would be my sort of prejudice, as it were, coming to it, publishing the information on the way out. but i'll have a look at it. >> we need to look at that. can i just say last year the education secretary attacked the p.a.c. in a speech in which he said, and i quote, national audit office and the public accounts committee, the most influential watchdogs in the country, are the most fearest conservatism. and on your behalf as spokesman at the lobby said that you sympathized with that view. why did you seek to undermine the taxpayers champions? >> don't take it personally. i think the p.a.c. does an important job. the national audit office does an important job. we want champions for the taxpayers.

in response, i initiated the most public and most, free handson if post election review of any national party. we wanted an assessment of that is frank, a thorough, and transparent. we had to be honest with ourselves and with our voters. we wanted to build our party. we want to do it with bolder strokes to show that we're up to the challenge and that we are done with business as usual. last week i received the opportunities project report and there to under 19 recommendations. one reason we lost. our message was week. conclusive. we were behind and assets and digital. our primary process and needed improvements. there is no one solution. there is a long list of them. today i am going to focus primarily on the five most important areas where we think we need to take immediate, substantive actions, the demographic partners, campaign mechanics, technology, and the primary process. i want to point out that the recommendations are not limited to those five areas are even to the rnc. they can all learn something from this report. each of them is going to have a role to play. we are in the campaign business. our task will be to reach out to the most voters and build th