Rising tensions between the u. S. Eastern. At 2 00 p. M. Forre congress adjourned summer recess, the House Oversight Committee Held a theing on the future of Affordable Care act as certain provisions were being challenged in courts. Witnesses included advocates and a. C. A. Ast of the well as patients who have benefited from the law. Hours. Der four rep. Cummings committee will come to order. Objection, the chair is recesszed to declare a of the committee at any time. Full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administrations attack on the a. C. A. I now recognize myself for five openingto give an statement. Because on today the trump2019, administration filed a letter with the United States court of appeals for the fifth circuit reversing its own previous position in the texas vs. United states in asserting for the first time would not defend any the Affordable Care act in court. The Trump Administrations the entireevails and a. C. A. Is struck down, there electric catastrophic
Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a vereces of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administration ee administrations attack on the aca. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are hear today because of on march 25th, 2019, the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals with the fifth circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States and asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in the court. If the Trump Administrations position prevails and the entire aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans in the entire United States Health Care System. Ive often said that voting for the Affordable Care act was the most important vote of my career. And let me tell you why. When Congress Passed the aca in
Yale Law School Professor of health law. Got under way about 40 minutes ago. Live here on cspan. Move to mr. Gibbs. Let me say to our patient witnesses, again i want to thank you for being here. I think your testimony is so important. Mr. Cummings so often here on capitol hill we look at and we read about problems. But there is nothing like having people who go through it second of their lives. Mr. Gibbs. Thank you. Mr. Gibbs thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, members of the committee, for giving me the opportunity to speak today. Today i have heard this law referred to as commonly is by the names either the Affordable Care act or obamacare. For me its important to call this law by its full name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act because the Patient Protections of the a. C. A. Have been a gift from god for people like me and families like mine. My Health Care Story begins in 1974 when my twin brother and i were born with serious medical conditions. He had a condition call
Rent this land, then state communal enterprises should do the same, thank you thank you, dear colleagues, have you understood the 21st amendment authored by peoples deputy haydu, it is taken into account editorially, peoples deputy ivchenko asks to make the following decision regarding taking into account the editorial for confirmation in the hall, i put amendment 21 in the editorial , which is taken into account by the committee for confirmation, i ask the peoples deputies to vote for 271, the decision has been made, what is the next amendment , who will be, is there, or can we go to the vote dear colleagues ivchenko , please amend the number of the amendment 31 dear colleagues in we have 159 amendments for confirmation. I would really like to ask you, ruslan oleksiyovych, to put the amendments that protect National Security and protect the ministry of defenses land to a vote, please. These are the first and second, i would ask the deputies to decide on the right, and peoples deputy b
Still has to be conducted within the framework of international law. Which means that civilians in the lives of civilian and civilian infrastructure has to be protected. You also wanted to put this particular flare up that weve seen over the past couple of days in a larger Historical Context. And i want to quote him in verbatim. Here, he said also in that statement that the most recent violence does not come in a vacuum. Quote. Another quote is, the reality is that it go, that it grows out of a long standing conflict with a 56 year long occupation and no political ends in sight. That is a quote also from his statement where hes trying to explain that there is a Historical Context behind this not justifying the violins but putting it into a context. And so theres really, there was an attempt to really try and strike a balance and to try and calm the situation for, for both sides. And what about the United States and earlier today um at the you in the us reiterated support for is really