First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for five minutes. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If they need to step away from the proceeding, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Third, we will discuss instead go in order of seniority. Alternating between minority and majority beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee first. Finally without objection, representative judy chu is authorized to serve as chair any event that i have some technical difficulties or whatever. I thank you all for your continued patience and to navigate this technology in order to continue serving our function together in this time of need. With that i will now turn to the important topic of todays hearing. Maximizing Health Coverage involvement administration sabotage. Sounds like aen movie. So
This is the opportunity to get some clarity about the candidates and where they stand clear whoring one holding this form in person however with the senate so in session Susan Collins cannot attend in person we were told sarah would not appear in person is senator collins did not so we are having a virtual gathering. The candidates tonight in alphabetical order Susan Collins, sarah gideon and max went and lisa savage. Will be posing questions to the candidates each have one minute to answer each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate with the same time limit and each will have a time limit for a closing statement and senator collins i will begin with you so to block consideration of expensive pandemic when he falls and rest confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee and things you have disagreed with the Washington Post to white house not to strike a deal with pelosi before the election with the planned confirmation of judge. Next me to the Supreme Court
In the texas 32nd congressional district, the incumbent democrat faces this challenger. They rate this race likely democratic. Democratic. Just want to review the rules of it. They are fairly simple. Two minutes for Opening Statements from the candidates. Nd for questions there will be a 92nd response for each candidate and a 45 second rebuttal for each candidate. Any further response or followup will be up to me. There the timekeeping, will be about four boxes on the one of those will have questions for use in this debate. When the candidate gets down to about 15 seconds left in their answer, that box will turn yellow. It will time is up, turn red. We will also have one minute closing statements in reverse order of opening. So, in keeping with the agreement reached between the two candidates, the opening genevievewill go to collins. Ms. Collins good evening. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you to the congressman for joining me and being flexible. Thank you to all of you for tuning in.
Anything to in conjunction with the chamber of commerce we are the four candidates for u. S. Senate and maine the 300,000 and residents have cast ballots but many will do so with absentee voting are at the polls on november 3rd this is the opportunity to get some clarity about the candidates and where they stand clear whoring one holding this form in person however with the senate so in session Susan Collins cannot attend in person we were told sarah would not appear in person is senator collins did not so we are having a virtual gathering. The candidates tonight in alphabetical order Susan Collins, sarah gideon and max went and lisa savage. Will be posing questions to the candidates each have one minute to answer each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate with the same time limit and each will have a time limit for a closing statement and senator collins i will begin with you so to block consideration of expensive pandemic when he falls and rest con
Joining us to start this off, monica alba, across the street from the white house, and nbc news correspondent Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Lets begin with you. Amid the new controversies and calls for Resignations Swirling around Marjorie Taylor greene, weve just learned that missouri Congresswoman Corey Bush moved her office after she said greene berated her and her staff in a hallway. How long can leaders ignore these issues being brought up by Marjorie Taylor greem . Yeah. A pretty disturbing report there. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded with a video that she claims is of the incident. A selfie style video in which she can be heard yelling back and forthwith someone who we dont see on camera. So its not entirely clear whats going on here. The lack of response from Republican Leadership is the thing to watch. The resolutions about censure or expulsion. Other things that have been raised in discussions of miss greene are not going to go anywhere unless Republican Leadership dec