Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the future. And also to prevent insurers from leaving the markets where those 18 million americans buy insurance. Last week, between the meetings held before our hearings, such
Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next hour well feature the areas Literary Community beginning with dante scala on New Hampshires role during a president ial election. New hampshires role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. Nomination process in the nomination process. And thats a spot on the calendar that weve held now for about a century, and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically n
Inside the cold war the unprecedented died to this strategy and key documents of the cold war this should be interesting and historical discussion. On a similar note october october 23rd talking about the book nixon and europe on september 11 we will have the 11th commemoration and on november 7 the daughters of president george w. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush to talk about their book sisters first. And so now to our speaker douglas shown is one of the most influential Democratic Campaign consultants over 30 years his clients include Michael Blumberg and indiana governor procter and gamble and at t also he is a commentator on fox news as well he wrote a comprehensive book on nixons policies called the nixon effect. His new book is covering another presidency looking at Politics Today it is called the mayor cut in the age of trump. Fox news political analyst one williams said all Real Solutions for error people of all political stripes and how americas cando spirit can get back. [appl
The power of the common, the fascist. Thats where we get the word fascism. Todays neofascism is likewise an unbreakable bundle of power, its a group of people bound together so tightly in unbroken compliance, no differences, no diversity, its the rule of the gang. It is unquestioned and unchallenged power, the call to arms of these modernday jacob and, you must omit. So the questions we face today is whether we want to be ruled by the ideological fascism of prevailing across our land or do we want to enjoy intellectual freedom . Let me ask questions just to point out headlines of the past couple years. Should government have the power to force religious syncretism on its students or do we have freedom to believe and behave by the dictates of our conscience unimpeded by government hubris . Should the government have the power to force a jewish owner of the Meat Processing business to process pigs . Should the government have the power to force the muslim owner of a newspaper to publish
New hampshires role is to be the primary, that is first of all the primaries in the nomination process and thats a spot on the calendar that we held now for about a century and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically narrow the field for the rest of the country. New hampshire primary has been the first in the nation for a century and it actually happened by accident. Two accidents. The Fortunate One is for us. One is that New Hampshire decides to hold its primary in conjunction with town meetings which occurred in the springtime and that wasnt to be first, that was essentially to save money, to have multiple elections on the same day. But when we started the president ial primary, we were not first. There were a couple other states ahead of us but remember the time, it wasnt the case that primaries decided who the nominee was going to be. Even though some states he