Maintaining that it is not liable for the fire. And we will be talking to an attorney representing some of those families but that will be coming up later on. All right another big story that were following pg and e being blamed for causing 29 teams kincade fire in Sonoma County cal fire has released the results of its investigation into that very destructive fire. The report says investigators have determined that pg and e on power lines near geyserville and thats to blame not a surprise. The kincade fire burned for more than 13 days covering more than 77,000 acres 374 buildings were destroyed 4 people were injured. Pg and is responding to the cal fire release of the investigation results blaming the company for the kincade fire. The Statement Reads in part were aware of cal fires news release stating that pg and e facilities caused the fire at this time we do not have access to cal fires investigator for port or the evidence it has collected we look forward to reviewing both at the a
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30 minutes. Thank you. Madam president , i welcome you, senator from texas, after thanksgiving break, i have my parents, 94 and 89, with all children and grandchildren, and this and that. I would like to be thankful, blessed to have my mom and dad, happy about it. Now we are back. Precious little time to do it. Funding for the government expires this friday. 800,000 dreamers wait to hear they can live and work in the only country they have ever known. 9 million children reauthorizing the Health Insurance program and millions more waiting to restore funding for Community Health centers, the most costeffective and only healthcare lots of people can get. We need to funds costsharing programs that have pocket costs for low income americans because the administration refuses to do so. Texas, louisiana, puerto rico, the Us Virgin Islands are desperately in need of additional aid to recover from the natural disasters god brought on them and the debt ceiling must be raised again and in short o
In washington dc and trickle down. It bottoms up. People come forward and say that is not the way to go and say here is the way to make our lives better. I yield the floor. I note the absence. Mister president. Senator from massachusetts. I request permission to speak. Senator is recognized. Mister president , seven weeks since the senate voted down three versions of republican bills to repeal the Affordable Care act from each of these terrible bills would have stripped healthcare coverage from tens of millions of american and raise costs for millions more. During the seven weeks followed the last of those votes no one has clamored for another try. With calls for republicans to go one more round in their efforts to rip up the Medicaid Program, emails and letters asking for legislation to jack up the costs for people with preexisting conditions, tweets and facebook posts dont demand insurers get the chance to drop coverage from Mental Health issues and addiction treatment. Instead the f
Talk about the drivers of this. Who are the two senators, what are they interested in. The republican senators working on this plan are built cassidy and lindsey graham. Lindsey graham and him started working on this plan earlier this summer. Looking they were working to overhaul Affordable Care act in july and started coming up with this pla plan. They officially rolled out there updated legislation last week. This girl would take the funding to help people afford insurance and outofpocket payments and medicaidge expansion, put it all into a general fund. Thats what were looking at. Talk a little bit about why they think the blockwa grant system is the way to go. You give the state money. This would be a really big change in terms of how healthcare is funded, going from federal government, state government, the senators are saying federalism is the way to go, give people the chance to really decide whats going on in healthcare or that sort of how theyre looking at the. You talk about