The dest, kcci, moines register, kwwl, and ktiv and senator joni ernst challenger theresa greenfield. In true 2020 spirit, this debate will not be like others you have seen. Steve, myself, and our three moderators are here in person. Our candidates join us remotely. Senator ernst is in washington after several days of confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett. Miss greenfield is live from altoona. Moderators. T our we have the chief politics reporter for the des moines register. And ron steele is the evening news anchor at kwwl. Is anator joni ernst native of red oak, iowa, and served in the military for more than 23 years. Is the first female veteran elected to serve in the u. S. Senate. Democrat theresa greenfield hopes to unseat senator ernst. She was raised on a small farm in minnesota and moved to iowa to attend college. She has a background in urban planning. In 2018, she briefly ran for congress in iowas third district. She lives and oman with her husband. Now for the ru
Health insurance, provided by the Affordable Care act. Called to order, subcommittee and oversight, thank you everyone for joining us today. We are holding this hearing virtually. In compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings. House resolution 965. Before we turn to todays important topics, i want to remind everyone of a few procedures to help you navigate this virtual hearing. , consistent with regulations. The committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for an muting themselves. Members are witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Rule, we will observe the and go in order of seniority. Ultimately between minority and majority. Beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee first. , thely, without objection representative is authorized to serve as chair in an event that i have some technical difficulties
Former congresswoman tenney is looking to regain her seat after narrowly losing to representative brindisi in 2018. She represented the district from 27 to 2019. Health care, rachel justice, the u. S. Supreme court are just some of the topics we feature tonight. This is ny22, a league of women voters debate. We have the three candidates and members of our crew socially distant in our studio. Thank you to the candidates for joining us on wskg tv and radio. Good evening. This debate is a partnership between wksg public media, that league of women voters of broome and tioga counties, and the Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote anywhere initiative. Our candidates are congressman Anthony Brindisi, republican nominee former congresswoman tenney, and libertarian candidate keith price. Absentee ballots are already in the mail. Voting access has been expanded to address concerns amid the pandemic. Here are the ground rules. Each candidate has one minute for opening and closing statements. Drawing de
Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Ms. Cortez masto madam president. The presiding officer the senator from nevada. Ms. Cortez masto i rise today to join my colleagues in opposing the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett as justice of the Supreme Court. This is the wrong time to be choosing a Supreme Court justice. And judge barrett is the wrong candidate for a seat on that court. The timing for todays confirmation vote is shocking. The majority of americans want to be able to weigh in on who should sit in Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs seat on the highest court in the land. They want to vote to choose a president to fill that vacancy. We are eight days away from americans casting the final votes in the 20 election. Over 58 million americans have already voted, including more than 649,000 nevadans. The American People are making their voices heard in response to this administrations disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic which has led to the loss of 225,000 american lives including 1,48 nevadans and sickened o