And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace,head cade, and chip. Medicaid, etplace, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson help from persons in their communities. You made sure they knew about the opportunities for Financial Assistance, which finally made Health Insurance a reality for millions who couldnt afford it in the past and you stood ready to handle the surge in signups as the deadline approach
Since may and will double it again by october. There has been a transformation. But we are not there yet. How can he reassure a school in my constituency, which has a child who has tested positive, but they only get a quote of tests every three weeks. They are worried that they may have people who are passing on the virus a symptomatically that they are not able to identify. What would he say to them and schools up and down the country that are trying so and down the country that are trying so hard to do the right thing . He is right that we are and have massively increased testing across the country. We are now prioritising teachers, as he knows, he raises a very important point about School Pupils. There, there is a very interesting fact, the rates of infection and transmission amongst School Pupils are much lower than in the rest of the population. But i am not to hide that from him that the way to defeat this virus is massively to expand testing and not just for teachers, notjust m
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That the panel is being televised by cspan and one of our speakers michael corner will be zooming in for her remarks and you can see her right here on the screen. Unfortunately another panelists kerry lane merritt had a family emergency a while ago and and let us know that she would not be to participate today. So just in terms of this panel, i would like to just put forward a few framing remarks on the 1862 moment and then let the speakers go for around 10 minutes each. I deliver their remarks maybe talk amongst each other raise some questions for each other. Ill be happy to facilitate that and then really open it up for q a with the audience and another reminder do come up to the mic if you have a question. So in most conventional histories of the civil war the year 1863 is often taken as the turning point of the war the euro Significant Union military victories at gettysburg and vicksburg and most importantly the year president Abraham Lincoln issued the historic emancipation procla
Cspan shop. Org is the online store. Shop for apparel, books, home to core and assess threes. There is something for every cspan fan. Every purchase helps support our nonprofit organizations. Shop now or anytime at cspanshop. Org. I will republican senator Chuck Grassley seeking an eighth term here he faced his democratic challenger, michael franken, and eight bait hosted by iowa pbs. And a debate hosted by iowa pbs. Explore the views of the two men running to represent iowans in the u. S. Senate for the next six years. Lets meet the candidates. Democrat mike franken is from sioux city. Hes a retired navy admiral, seeking his first elected office. Republican Chuck Grassley, of new hartford, was first elected to the u. S. Senate in 1980. He is seeking in a storm. Welcome to you both an eighth term. Welcome to you both. Reporters joining me in the questioning are aaron murphy and breanne p. Chuck grassley, for years youve honored significant bipartisan support as youve run for reelection