recalls involving tomatoes, jalapenos, peanuts and mustachios have not only it had guns but regrettably acosta listen in some cases even that. many of the themes and ideas that i share today will be similar to those i shared in 2008 but their differences the reflect lessons learned and new witnesses in the existing food safety system identified from the latest recalls. as the purchasing agent for the concern and of the supply chain our industry understands it is vital to ensure that the fda have necessary authority and resources to meet the challenges of today's global marketplace. consumer confidence remains an essential factor in this debate, food safety issues can be extremely complex and consumers weary greatly in their knowledge of the science and other issues affecting the safety of our food supply. however, as food safety issues drawn national headlines consumer awareness is well concern about the safety of commercially prepared food and products purchased at the supermarket tie-ins. mr. chairman, i applaud you, chairman waxman and all members of the committee for your efforts to addres

spend a staggering $60 million on wartime transport including a dollar a pound for cannonballs the acosta fraction of that to produce. the cost of moving all telerate to the major naval or fan on lake erie was more than double its purchase price and transportation to washington to the lake was up to five times the production cost. the blockade of american ports forced coastal shipping on to piven of land routes and one wagoner, of course, applies loaded in massachusetts a rise in charleston, south carolina to a half months later. nothing had changed dramatically in the decade since peace was restored until the erie canal opened on may 5 holiday in 1825. so that sets the stage for what the country was light until the erie canal got built. before trains, planes and automobiles, boats and horses were the only way to travel significant distances and in the days before groce deily to transport numbers of people or things was by water. the natural water route west and the hudson was overland from albany with, bypassing the falls and the mohawk river. and then a backbreaking labor 125 miles of t

state director says that increasing the expansion of medicaid to 150 percent of federal poverty level acosta's teefive under $72 million. the federal government according to the finance committee of my pay for all that i remember a pays about there is one plan 6 million to increase so then pay for all that for the first three or four of five years. sounds good. let's said that. if we pay medicaid providers 110% and pay doctors at the rate of it as another $600 million in tennessee. remember that medicated doctors get paid about 70% of what medicare pays doctors, that is nationally and medicare nationally pays about 80 percent of what private people pay so you can imagine doctors aren't overly enthusiastic about those programs so i'm now that tennessee costs up to one plan to billion dollars and that is 3.3 but then the finance committee says we will gradually quote shift back those cost of the states so here comes the fun governor of tennessee in 2015 a great big $1.2 billion cost that i didn't have before. and where i get the money? it for% increase would have raised $400 billion. that is why