Touted it in the weeks leading up to this march. Conservatives are still happy that at least this bill, which was considered last year is now being considered on the floor. It is an issue that also came up last september in the gao report that said some of the federal subsidies under the health law were being used to cover some abortion services. Is this the kind of measure that we we mentioned at the top that the march for life happening in washington this week, is this the sort of measure that these abortion bills that really have to be passed by the house . Yeah. Theyre pretty much messaging bills at this point. In the senate it will be difficult for them to pass and obama issued a veto threat last year on this federal funding for abortion bill. Melanie covering it all covering Health Policy and the abortion bill debate in the house. You can follow her reporting on twitter at mzanona. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. And legislation is being voted on the house floor right now. We w
When the ebola has been such a big concern for many, including politicians who in some cases ran campaigns on ebola, we have have thethe senate opportunity to confirm a Surgeon General for this country. There are a number of nominations that must work its way in before the end of the year. We believe that we heard the public right. We will stick to trying to help as much as possible all those families that are survived the difficult times as a result of the wall street crash. We will focus most importantly on the middle class. We can build on the more than 10 10. 5 million jobs created over the last 54 months. We can hope to continue that progression of more than 200 thousand jobs created for the last nine months we continue to have more americans with Health Security that we take for granted in this room. We learned just recently that we have the highest rate of High School Graduation in our country ever. We saw that five states, four of them red, the people in those states said, we s
Administrations goal. When is your reaction to that . Thanks you, senator. Let me take an initial response and ask my colleague to jump in. First, the request h that we are making here that we are support a u. S. To government funded total number of 20 treatment units. Number in aarger global strategy and one of the things we have been doing at the state department is to encourage donations from partner governments around the world. Expertse view of the fix unit number of treatment beds is critical to controlling the epidemic but we resources for Community Care centers that can into rural places and be mobile for spikes in the disease isolation and containment. Let me ask nancy to join in here. Simply that. Looking at a strategy that is care and isolation and safe burials and intensive social to that people change their habits all take be together is what we are all is what we are seeing in how many of the highly toective areas is beginning yield results and we need to keep at that in
Distribution. Thats why we have put in the con ticontingency fund. We getof it is if something and at that point believe we need to support further distribution, thats would do asat we well. So distribute a successful vaccine. Allows for largescale manufacture and then distribution . Right now we have put in funds that will help us get to manufacturing. That is what we are focused on in the barta element. Okay. Thank you. You very much, senator hogan. Hearing,p up todays first of all id like to thank forwitnesses here today their cogent testimony. Lot. Nk weve learned a i think it gives us great insight into the president s why that significant amount of money is needed and why, even though it might not be headline, the urgency continues. Follow the like to model that was established under withdent bush and then president obama when we had an disease situation before. Before i wrap up, i also want to comment about dr. Frieden and dr. Fauci, who spent a lot of time, both dealing with th
Isis there in iraq. Mr. The isis threat is among several issues currently before congress. Although there was a vote in september to allow for the training of syrian forces, there was not a vote on authorizing specific military action. That is an issue which could come up in the current lameduck session. On capitol hill, the next congressional session was the focus for house republicans, who chose their leaders for the 114th congress. , the majority whip, and the conference chair were among those voted to continue in their positions when the new session begins. They are expected to be joined by House Speaker jon weiner, who must be voted into his post by the entire House Chamber when mammals members assemble in january. About their agenda for the lameduck session, as well as their goals going into 2015. Good afternoon. Americans have trusted republicans with control of both the house and the senate. We are humbled by this opportunity. Im proud of our Leadership Team that is assembled h