Assembled leaders from americas Largest Companies and labor organizations. The united auto workers, the aflcio, theyre all here because they believe the Inflation Reduction Act meets the needs of working families now. Of what our economy needs now for stronger sustained Economic Growth in the years ahead. Let me tell you a few things about what this bill does. First, it will Lower Health Care costs are millions of americans who buy coverage from the Affordable Care act. Locking in the Health Care Premiums that saved 13 Million People an average of 800 a year. This comes on top of the news that we have the lowest percentage of americans that are uninsured than ever before in our history. Thanks to the Affordable Care act, as well as emergent rescue plan that i signed into law last Year American rescue plan that i signed into law last year say families in premiums. Inflation reduction act will also deliver on the promise washington has made for years. Give medicare the power to negotiate
Assisting individuals with federal and state benefit programs. Most navigators are nonprofit, nonpartisan Community Service providers and have effective privacy provisions in place. Those are the facts and the show good news. You talking your Opening Statement about the navigators were going from door to door and that is a concern. Thats why we have to have the real navigators in place so they can sign people up. Just yesterday hhs, doj and the ftc announced a massive antifraud effort. I would suggest we all Work Together to stop any kind of fraud in the system. With that i want to yield the balance of my time to the representative castor. I think the Ranking Member for yielding time. The enthusiasm i am hearing back home from so many of my neighbors, particularly when it comes to now the bar against discrimination for our neighbors that have preexisting conditions. Just over the past few weeks i met with Community Leaders and multiple sclerosis and diabetes, hiv aids, cancer that now
You are citing a circumstance with a lot of asterisks attached. I would refer you to the investigation about that and i would point you to what the joint chiefs said about his successful recovery and the dose that has long been held here in the United States and by our military. My question is not about whether or not there should have been a deal to release him. My question is about the words used to describe him. He was promoted during his captivity. And susan rice said he served with honor and distinction. Is that true . I would refer you to the Defense Department who and you noted his promotion. Since this goes to questions about his initial detention, the Defense Department is the body that has been reviewing that and will continue to review it. Now thats art sergeant board now that Sergeant Bergdahl has been recovered. The fact of the matter is, he was held captive by an enemy force in an Armed Conflict with the United States and our allies. For five years. And consistent with ce
National captioning institute] reminder the Senate Hearing and most of our programming available on our Video Library at www. Cspan. Org. News that david bidder of louisiana will run for governor of that state in 2015. Ites the next Gubernatorial Election is november 15 one week before his term ends. Should he lose, he could keep his seat and decide whether to seek reelection. They write that if he wins, he would have the right to appoint a successor to serve on the final year of his senate term. Although the house and senate are out, pro forma sessions only today, snow in washington is canceling the federal government work today and also a number of events we had planned to cover for you. We did earlier cover a discussion looking at the security and politics of the winter games in sochi, russia which kicks off february 7. A russian expert said no matter how secure the olympics are in russia it only takes one person and a bride to get past the. Here is a look. Heard a lot of discussion
Rather than the end. There are real structural problems. Iwe will be living mean, im not an economic forecaster, but every thing i read suggest we will be living with unusually high levels of unemployment, a lot of pain from over indebtedness. Over a quarter of the country is on food stamps. It is not a great depression. We are not repricing exactly what happened in the 1930s. But it is a version of that. Read more of our conversation with Michael Lewis and other featured interviews from our footnotes and q a programs from 8 00 nowsundays at sundays at eight now available at your favorite bookseller. At a stall and american life. The discussion includes Justice Samuel alito and others. This is a little more than an hour. Good afternoon. As belle allen used to greet his audiences, hello, everyone, and how nice to see you. How wonderful it is to see you to wonderful to welcome you the luncheon on the subject of baseball, americas game. Ome people seem confused they actually think pro foo