Since 2016. That has been the pattern over the last election cycles. An additional 4 million became additional voters. Those who a shout and those who have naturalized and became have aged those who out and those who have naturalized and became citizens. They how does it work if were not born here . Guest in the latino population, you have many who hold a green card. Members of the u. S. Population. Many,s interesting is they have been here 20 years and not applied to become a citizen. It is expensive and it can come over 700 and the price is about to go up. We see about one million latinos between election cycles become able to vote through naturalization. Host what are some of the most important issues . Guest traditional it has been education and health care. There is strong support among latinos for raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour. Many latinos want some Health Care System that is provided by the federal government. When it comes to issues like how big the government should
Coronas outbreak and the federal government coronavirus outbreak in the federal governments preparedness. And the federal governments preparedness. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you, secretary azar, for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated, but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. I think you will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget. My first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully, that will be the case again this time. But you propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the Health Care Workforces and preparedness progr
This is how the debate is playing out in the papers starting with the Washington Post. Democrats hang up on Bernie Sanders in South Carolina debate. Ruckus york times, democratic debate yields no clear challenger to sanders. The wall street journal frames it this way, rivals focus on sanders at South Carolinas debate and the Washington Times this morning, not so friendly fire at sanders. What are your thoughts on it this morning . We will show you one of those moments where the Democratic Candidates go after senator sanders and his electability. The only way you can do this is to actually win the presidency. I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to donald trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s. This is not about the 1970s or the 1980s. This is about the future. This is about 2020. We are not going to survive or succeed and we are not going to win by reliving the cold
Subcommittee onoversight and investigations will now come to order. The subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled sabotage Trump Administration attack on healthcare. The purpose is to examine the efforts of the center for medicaid and Medicaid Services to ensure quality and Affordable Healthcare are all americans. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes or an opening statement. Its no secret the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his first day in Office President trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act to the maximum extent by law. And ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role as administrator. For the centers of medicare and Medicaid Services, seema verma has been behind many of this administrations effort to undermine healthcare. Despite her role, today is the first time adm