u.s. department of health and human services. >> good afternoon, everyone, and when come to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of july 9, 2015. we're joined today by mayor ed lee. madam clerk

u.s. department of health and human services. issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up fo

u.s. department of health and human services. today, we're honored to have mayor ed lee here to present the city's budget for the next 2 hundred and 50 millin dollar years mayor ed lee welcome floor is yours. >> thank you good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> thank you supervisor president london breed and budget and supervisor mar farrell and members of the board our elected the officials and commissioners and department heads and labor our wonderful community leaders thank you very much for being here and thank you all for being such a great partner in helping me deliver to the people of san francisco a balanced budget that sets our city up for lesson lasting success. >> our city's budget is a reflection of our values and we're making historic investments to make sure our city remains save solvent and successful a city in which everyone what prosper it was just a few short years ago we were suffering from an entrenched economic recession maybe double digit unemployment and massive shortfalls and forced to make very hard di

u.s. department of health and human services for the exclusive use of canbinoids for certain treatments. > a dog in the manger. the federal government is sitting on this wonderful thing, wonderful thing and not letting anybody else do anything with it. >> reporter: when we went to the government to ask about it, none of the agencies involved would comment. >> we're being handcuffed by the government preventing us from doing the right trials. >> reporter: in fact, a 2013 search through the u.s. national library of medicine revealed 2,000 recent papers on marijuana, but the majority of them explored the harm. only 6% investigated the benefits. many believe that's the result of a draconian system gone awry. resulting in marijuana becoming twhoichb country's most controlled substances and many people believe that has to change. but it was one of the experts calling for that change that surprised me the most. dr. nora -- the director of the naushl institute on drug abuse. the very agency that many say blocked a good deal of cannabis research. >> the researchers feel this -- for them doing scien

u.s. department of health and human services the district restricts turn-off when it's 32 degrees or below. maryland has restrictions 32 degrees or below and when it's 95 degrees or above. virginia has no temperature restriction. the d.c. council passes similar emergency legislation each year prompting the question -- why the restriction isn't written into permanent law like maryland and other states. >> well, i think that's a good question. >> reporter: if the restrictions were to be madepermanent public and bypasses congressional review. the chairman thinks it is time to make the restriction permanent. >> we see if there's something we're not aware of. otherwise, yes, we should put it in permanent law. >> reporter: news 4. >>> talking about this and a spokesperson said whether they pass legislation or not, pepco will not disconnect any resident with a heat advisory of 95 degrees or hotter. >>> well the june is beginning just the way may ended in texas with more flooding and it is leaving hundreds without their homes. this apartment complex north of dallas is under three feet of water. mo

u.s. department of health and human services has an actual financial stake in this exact sort of research. use of cannabinoids as neuroprotectants. >> it can protect against further brain damage. >> reporter: this doctor patented hhs. >> how do you patent something that comes from a plant? >> we're not patenting the compound. people are free to use the compound in other ways subject to laws and other patents, so this is a method of using the compound for developing drugs to treat these types of diseases. >> like a progressive degenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or etc. it is caused by concussions or consistent blows to the head. >> hopefully we can intervene in the late stage of -- >> sdeen the ceo of cannalife, the company that bought the patent rights. he believes this plant has so much potential, potential to treat the untreatable, diseases that may also be related in the brain, alzheimer's, cte and ptsd. >> let's study it and get the data. >> veteran shawn kiernan, stay-at-home mom amelia taylor, they are the new faces of ptsd successful, smart, but suffering.

department of health and hospitals and appointed as a the president of the university of louisiana system. he was then called on by president george w. bush to serve as assistant secretary for the u.s. department of health and human services and in 2001 press huseby all of the adviser to the dhs secretary. in 2004 jindal was elected to the 109th nsa's commerce and in 2007 he was elected as governor of louisiana. you believes in reforming the health care systems and offering more choices when it comes to education. jindal was married -- jindal is married and has three young children. >> without governor general thank you for being with us. that is quite a resume when you look at it. when did you decide you wanted to take a hard look at the presidency? >> josh is a great question and is the first -- the reason i ran for governor the first time. i was worried about the direction of louisiana. my wife and i have three great children. back then we had her first child and we were worried if we didn't change or state our children when fields are children when fields are corrupt and louisiana louisiana. at that same concern for america. president obama's changing the american dream into a european nightmare. i want my children on

of volume. cha revised rates for 2015 and was very competitive with the market. in fact, cha grew too big, too quickly and approached the department with a proposal to freeze enrollment under u.s. department of health and human services guidelines. we agreed to the proposed freeze and work with hhs to cease enrollment, thereby effectively taking cha off the marketplace. the decision to freeze enrollment remains the right decision for the company and most importantly for tennessee insurance consumers, but the process has not been as efficient as we had hoped. for 2016 cha has requested an average rate increase of over 32%. we continue to review the rate request as well as the company's frozen status for marketplace purposes. the aca and its implementation has challenged state regulators and carriers by creating and continuing consistent uncertainty. uncertainty in the business of risk nearly always drives up kate gosselin or lessens competition. in the case of the aca i think it has done both from. the early days of the aca until exchanges were rolled out in 2014, governors, insurance regular lay tors and carriers looked for guidance from the federal government on exchange structures and rules.tors and carriers looked

however it's incredibly challenging and the fact is that over the number of years it's the u.s. government department of health and human services with nih and barda and the d.o.d. with our laboratories and our advanced developments who are conducting the research that goes into the development of these products. that's a fundamental point that's important to understand. i'll get back to at the end my comments about the challenge of getting these countermeasures commercialized and available. back to virus detection, we have a couple of assays here. with diagnostics, we're trying to be prepared to respond to upwards of 20 or 30 different threats out there. it would be cost prohibitive to develop fda approved assays for everything in the near term and we haven't been able to do everything we want but what we had is we had assays that were pre-positioned with the food and drug administration that had data that showed that they were safe and effective and when this ebola outbreak hit in less than 30 days we were able to get fda approval under an emergency use authorization to use these assays. and that was a tremendous accomplishmen

and the fact is that over a number of years it's the u.s. government, department of health and human services with nih and barta, and it's been the dod with our laboratories and our advance developers who are conducting the research that goes into the development of these products. and that's really a fundamental point that is important to understand. i'll get back to it at the end with my comments about the challenge of getting these countermeasures actually commercialized and available. so back to virus detection. we've got a couple of assays here, and with diagnostics we're trying to be prepared to respond to upwards of 20-30 different threats out there. it would be cost prohibitive for everything in the near term, and we haven't been able to do everything in we want. but we had assays that were prepositioned with the food and drug administration that had data that showed they were safe and effective. and when this ebola outbreak hit in less than 30 days, we were able to get fda approval under an emergency use authorization to use these assays. and that was a tremendous accomplishment, and

of indian affairs and u.s. department of health and human services administration for children and families. reforms are just commonsense measures designed to protect those native american children who are in need of a good, safe home. in fact, s. 184 has been endorsed by the national indian child welfare association as well as the spirit lake and turtle mountain tribes in my home state of north dakota. mr. president, this bill has undergone many thoughtful efforts on the part of many people and plenty of thoughtful consideration and it's gone through regular order in the senate and it passed unanimously out of the senate committee on indian affairs on february 4, 2015. i'm pleased that this bill now has passed the full senate so that these children can receive the protection they deserve. with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. thank you. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president i ask the senate's indulgence. i actually have three things that i need to discuss here today, one involves this historic flooding that we've experien

and other government contractors. now one that probably hit congress is one in 2013 where the f.b.i. warned that a group called anonymous hacked into the u.s. army department of energy department of health and human services and many agencies by exploiting a weakness in the adobe system. i have that in my office. they could have hacked into my office and probably every other congressional office. then they talk about going into healthcare. they go into the blue cross blue shield system of all the federal employees. it seems like they want a comprehensive package on certain millions of americans, many whom are serving our country, i would say at negotiating tables, commerce, state department probably defense and every other aspect of american life in the world economy. but mr. scott, you have been before this committee before, and you announced you were going to review the agency's cyber security programs to identify risks and implement gaps. i wonder if you could report on what you learned from this review and any specific changes in cyber security policies, procedures or guidance, if you can report on that or that may be classified, too. anything you can share with us on what you have been doing to act t

u.s. department of health and human services. in 2004 he was elected to the house of representatives to represent louisiana's first district. .. he's a fierce protector for those who have been voided. in june 2014 are governor signs for bills into law that would help ensure that criminals prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and victims are identified and protected. [applause] as the cwa director for louisiana i'm especially proud as he has demonstrated an unwavering support for our friend israel. [applause] earlier this year a free beacon statement that the white house admission as part of a pattern of hostility towards israel and that quote it is is inconceivable the white house the jewish people out of the lift of the islamic state targets in a request for authorization for military force. these repeated shots at israel or intentional. these are not mistakes. i'm defining america's long-standing alliance and disrespecting jewish people seems to be a strategic and of the white house end quote. concerned women for america

and other government contractors. now one that probably hit congress is one in 2013 where the f.b.i. warned that a group called anonymous hacked into the u.s. army department of energy, department of health and human services and many agencies by exploiting a weakness in the a-- the adobe system. i have that in my office. they could have hacked into my office and probably every other congressional office. then they talk about going into healthcare. they go into the blue cross, blue shield system of all the federal employees. it seems like they want a comprehensive package on certain million s of americans, many whom are serving our country, i would say at negotiating tables, commerce state department, probably defense and every other aspect of american life in the world economy. but mr. scott, you have been before this committee before, and you announced you were going to review the agency's cyber security programs to identify risks and implement gaps. i wonder if you could report on what you learned from this review and any specific changes in cyber security policies, procedures or guidance, if you can report on that or that may be classified too. anything you can share with us on what you have been doing

and other government contractors. one that probably hit congress is one in 2013 where the fbi warned that a group called anonymous hacked into the u.s. army department of energy, department of health and human services and many agencies by exploiting a weakness in adobe systems. now i have the adobe system in my office and so that means they could have hacked in my office and probably every other congressional office. and then they talk about going into health care. they go into the blue cross blue shield system of all of the forward employees. so it seems they want a come comprehensive package on certain millions of americans many of whom are serving our country, i would say, at negotiating tables and commerce state department, probably defense and every other aspect of american life and the world economy. but mr. scott, you have been before this committee before and you announced you were going to review the agency's cyber security programs to identify risks and im -- implement gaps and i wonder if you could report on what you learned from this review. and any specific changes in cyber security policies, procedures or guidance if you can report on that? or that may be classified too? but anything

of the departments of justice and health and human services, comprising federal state, and local investigators and law-enforcement officials from across the country, joined with seven additional u.s. attorney general's office is against 243 defendants and 17 federal districts for their alleged participation in medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $712 million. this is the largest takedown in the strikeforce's eight year history. it is the largest criminal health care fraud takedown and hit her he -- in the history of the his -- in the history of the department. the defendants charged over the last few days include doctors, patient recruiters, home health care providers, pharmacy owners and others. they are accused of an array of serious crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit health care fraud, wire fraud, to money laundering. they filed for equipment that was not provided and for care that was not needed for services that were not rendered. in one of the more egregious allegations, of exploitation of both the medicare system and vulnerable patients, the owners of a mental health facility in miami filled for intensive psychotherapy sessions that resulted in tens of mil