Congressional Actions and Hubris
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Clem72
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Wasn't expecting to actually watch the entire thing, but I did. I think he had some good ideas, but he is overselling the benefit of "AI" quite a bit. I have no doubt we will get to the point where 80% of claims/billing/help calls can be handled by AI but it's a long ways off and won't provide the savings expected.
What his presentation really told me was that the only way we lower the deficit is to have another pandemic that takes out all the diabetics and hypertension patients.
AI is going to start consuming the low level / Tier One JOBS .... In my previous industry Tier One Help Desk Assistance
Contact Tech support AI throws the basic questions at the caller the Go through the basic trouble shooting steps ... This can be done with speech ... the issue will be people with accents, speaking ebonics, or old folks not speaking clearly ....
Did you power cycle the Computer Yet ....
But for other jobs, most any job handled by huge Indian Call Centers .... these will be the 1st to go.
Rising Heathcare Costs is why Reagan Emptied the Mental Asylums ....
the projected cost increases were rising to 100's of millions dollars IN THE 80s
Money is Fungible .... you could make the claim
ALL INCOME TAX Goes to X Program ... he just chose Medicare and Interest
These are 13 yrs Old .....
How Congress Is Forced to Adapt Post-Chevron SCOTUS Ruling
“This institution is going to have to change; how we staff committees is going to have to change, and how we work with the administrative state will have to change,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told The Epoch Times.
“We’re going to have to be much more specific in the lawmaking exercise ... we’re going to have to have committees that have more staff in order to accommodate specific legislative writing.”
He said Congress will “have to have some changes in our internal processes of what comes to the floor.”
“We don’t have the muscle memory of how to write laws specific enough ... it’s muscle memory that has to be recreated here. And it’s possible but it’s going to be hard,” Mr. McHenry said. He briefly acted as the House Speaker pro tempore in 2023 after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was stripped of the gavel.
The Supreme Court in Loper Bright opined that non-specificity in statutes is unintentional, suggesting that Congress could now intentionally write laws more specifically.
NO Congress is going to FINALLY DO THEIR FUKING JOBS
For decades Democrats intentionally made vague laws KNOWING their supporting Groups like Sierra Club and other environmental groups would sue, then the Administrative State cave and let case law be built for regulations that NEVER WOULD HAVE PASSED CONGRESS or the Administrative State would just roll out rules and regulations NOBODY asked for, beyond the Enviro Groups
House Leaders Urged to Save AM Radios in New Vehicles
According to Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., one of the leading backers of the bill, it would “[d]irect the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to issue a rule that requires automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee, or surcharge.”
The American Principles Project letter notes bipartisan support for the legislation from “256 members of the House and 62 senators.” Additionally, notable figures such as radio talk-show hosts Erick Erickson, Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, and Mark Levin “have expressed their support for maintaining AM radio in vehicles.”
Automakers, meanwhile, are spending millions of dollars on lobbyists in an effort to kill the bill, the Radio+Television Business Report reported Tuesday.
The letter outlines three reasons why AM radio remains important: It’s an integral part of emergency “communications infrastructure,” it’s “the lifeline of local communities,” and it’s valuable “for political discourse.”
When electric power and cell services go down, AM radio still supplies people with “free, local, and trusted news and information,” the letter states.
House demands info from dozens of major businesses over ties to shadowy ad cartel GARM in collusion probe over free speech
The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent letters to more than 40 major companies in its ongoing probe of a left-leaning advertising cartel that has allegedly sought to defund news outlets and platforms, including The Post.
The panel, chaired by Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), asked the companies — which included Adidas, American Express, Bayer, BP, Carhartt, Chanel, CVS, General Motors and Goldman Sachs — to preserve documents and provide information pertaining to their activities with the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM).
“The Committee has learned that collusive activity is occurring within the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, of which your company is a member,” the letter began.
“In particular, the Committee has uncovered evidence of coordinated action by GARM and its member companies, including boycotts of disfavored social media platforms, podcasts, and news outlets.”
GARM, an initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers headed by radical activist Rob Rakowitz, exerts control over some 90% of global marketing spending — and uses its big-bucks leverage to go after free speech online, according to a bombshell House Judiciary Committee report released this month.
GARM “has deviated far from its original intent, and has collectively used its immense market power to demonetize voices and viewpoints the group disagrees with,” the committee’s letter said.
House Oversight Chair Threatens Subpoenas If White House Doesn’t Cough Up ‘Bidenbucks’ Plans
The powerful House Oversight Committee is threatening to force the White House to comply if it doesn’t quickly turn over the documents and information the committee requested regarding the controversial directive, according to a letter I obtained exclusively from Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young.
Executive Order 14019 on “Promoting Access to Voting” requires offices under the control of the Biden-Harris administration — from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Education — to register the millions of people with whom they interact, the many beneficiaries of the programs these agencies administer. Not only that, but the executive order suggests that the agencies partner with putatively nonpartisan third-party organizations to do so.
The White House issued the order in March 2021 with the explicit intent of registering more nonwhite voters — cohorts that tend to vote disproportionately Democrat — claiming they face “significant obstacles,” rooted in discriminatory policies, to participate in elections.
The ideas in the order largely originated inside the leftist Demos think tank, and the order seemingly includes built-in bias toward turning out likely Democrat voters under Democrat-dominated agencies. Due to those factors, plus left-wing NGOs’ support of and compliance with the order, many have likened this public-private voting initiative to the “Zuckbucks” effort of the 2020 election, dubbing the 2024 effort “Bidenbucks.”