Future of the Affordable Care act under the Trump Administration. The House Oversight and Reform Committee heard from advocates, opponents of aca, as well as patient who benefited from the law. This hearing is just under four hours. Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convening regarding the administrations attack on the aca. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are here today because on march 25th, 2019 nk, the Trump Administration filed a twosentence letter with the United States court of appeals before the 5th circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States in asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in court. If the Trump Administrations position prevail s and the entie aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions
Letter was sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. A copy of the letter is in my office, here in washington, d. C. You can see that the times were now. Greta over the generations, what has your family done for living . Rep. Taylor ive been in commercial real estate, farming, i live one mile away from where my greatgrandfather farmed for the great depression. Our family has a great love for our state and it has been an incredible ride. I am honored to represent the people of the Third District of texas in congress. Greta what was your childhood like . Who are your parents . Rep. Taylor my father was an attorney and businessman. My mother is a homemaker. I grew up in midland texas and i was born in dallas. I lived 50 miles from where i 15 miles from where i was born. Not too far from home. I joined the marine corps after i graduated from college, served on active duty for several years, i continued to serve my country and i got my mba from the Harvard Business school. And t
Travel to missoula, montana. With a population of about 66,000, montanas second largest city sits on the western part of the state in the heart of the northern rocky mountains. Over the next hour, well learn about the history of missoula and the surrounding region. Missoula is located in the western part of montana. We probably claim it to be the largest city inside the rocky mountains. Because we have a branch to our east and a branch to the west. So were located in the heart of western montana. In a very ferre tile area. When captain christopher p. Higgins established missoula, actually established hellgate first, which is the immediate predecessor, it was because, it was the nexus, it was the hub in western montana. Because to the north youve got the mission and to the south youve got an increasing settlement in the Bitterroot Valley and in 1860 you have lieutenant john mullin completing the military road from fort benton in the east to walla walla in the west. So anything everybody
Witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had the first directed attack. 710 shooting since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed. 12 students, one teacher. 20 one were injured. Sandy hook in 2012. 26 killed, two injured. Parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Toll ish and casualty simply unbelievable, honestly. I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We were concerned about nuclear holocaust. We would hold drills and tuck under our desks. We never had to worry about somebody entering our school and opening fire. This is
Republican on the subcommittee of communications and technology. The most significant subcommittee when it comes to technology and telecommunications in congress. He is our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman latta, what has your subcommittee been up to . Good news for the american citizens, we passed the robo call legislation. That is significant. When you think of the almost 50 billion rollcalls made every year into this country, it is going to hopefully provide relief to the american citizens. It is important, because in front of the top issues that people contact me about, it is also the top issue that the fcc year,e ftc receive every it is about robo calls. People say i thought i signed up for this do not call list, what happened . You signed up, but the calls are coming from overseas. There has been great work that has occurred on this. Not only in congress, but with the fcc and the carriers. Earlier this year, in the meetings i had with the fcc, they have call iden