Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing will convene regarding the administrations attack on the aca and i now recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an opening statement. We are here today because on march 25, 2019 the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals of 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. If the Trump Administration position prevails and the entire aca is struck down there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans and the entire United States Healthcare System. I have often said that voting for the Affordable Care act was the most important vote of my career. Let me tell you why. When Congress Passed the aca in 2010 we enshrined into law the promise
Advocates on opposing sides of the healthcare law also testified patients who benefited from the law speaking on the potential impact of repeal. This hearing is three hours and 50 minutes. Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing will convene regarding the administrations attack on the aca and i now recognize myself for 5 minutes to give an opening statement. We are here today because on march 25, 2019 the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals of 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. If the Trump Administration position prevails and the entire aca is struck down there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans and the entire United States Healthcare System. I h
Welcome to brookings. My name is ron haskins, im the codirector along with Richard Reeves of the center on children and family serving brookings. Today we are releasing the 29th volume of the future of children. When i read that and we added these up, i almost died of exhaustion. It takes a lot to put these volumes up weve been doing this 10 or 11 years. This is the 27th policy brief. We have produced a lot of work. In this volume in policy brief we addressed vital issues of how to achieve broadscale impacts with social programs. We focused for several years on evidencebased policy, on developing programs that high quality evaluations show are capable of producing impacts on important child and family outcomes. The goal we are promoting today is to ensure highquality programs could have a broad range of impacts. We are trying to help as Many Community as possible to build up their capacity to help families provide Effective Services for their children, especially their families and chi
Ready to get started. We have the after lunch session. Vicki and i happen tasked with getting everyone really ready to go. Do not embarrass us. My mom is watching. All right. Im excited to start the second part of our program today. We still have a time of candidates to hear from. I am so, because they are not just articulating how they will protect access. They are talking about expanding it and getting bolding getting visionary. Exactly. Do you feel like you are hearing what you want to hear . [applause] ok. A couple reminders on our ground rules. Make sure our storytellers who are being so brave and sharing arer testimony, that we listening to those folks. Second ground rule. We are on the record, so our hair is right and tight because we are getting good love on social media from folks watching all across the country. Number three, this is a glitter, not shade environment. If youre not feeling moved, you do not have to cheer, but we will save the shade for the ballot box, all right
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