Interesting and newsworthy highlights. These points of interest markers appear on the right hand side of your screen when you hit play on select videos. This makes it easy to get an idea of what is being debated and decided on in washington. And now a hearing on the state of assisted living facilities. One witness of a Family Member in assisted living details the poor Living Conditions and cost of care. The Senate Hearing is abetted one hour and 40 minutes. The Senate National committee on aging will come to order. As chairman, my top priority is keeping our promises to Older Americans the Senate Special committee on aging will come to order. As chairman of the ag committee my top priority is keeping our promises to Older Americans and to americans with disabilities. We owe it to every person with a disability, and their family, to have the necessary information to decide when, where and how to receive care as they age. That has motivated by advocacy, for example, for home and communit
Americans disposal income than i than 30 years. Then theres a 31 in energy costs. The 10 increase in housing costs. The 27 increase in the cost of car repairs and the list goes on. The president likes to talk about giving American Families breathing room. Ent, President Biden has eliminated the breathing room for a lot of American Families. Along with prices much higher prices on everything from groceries to guess americans are also dealing with the high Interest Rateseral reserve with President Bidens in inflation crisis. Interest rates have helped them drive credit card rates and interestrate creating hardship for lot of americans. Its no wonder in the recent pull one in three voters said thec track. Of that 57 of respondents in another recent poll rated the economy as fairly bad or very bad. And 60 of respondents in the same poll said things in america are going somewhat or very badly. Inflation crisis, National Security crisis at our southern border, a potential energy crisis. Itso
Informed. A republic thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nations capitol to where ever you are because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. I charleston, South Carolina repuican nikki haley announced the suspension of her campaig for president after o winning one state in yesterdays super esday primary. She can graduate former President Trump but she did not endorse him for it she spoke for just under five minutes. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] good morning. ■y just over a year ago i launched my campaign for president. When i began i saidn my love for country. Just last week my mother, a firstgeneration immigrant got to vote for her daughter for president. Only in america. Im filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we m all across our great country. But the time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said i wanted i have
Yesterday President Biden was in brownsville, texas. Trump made the chaos on the border a campaign issue. We want to hear your thoughts about this. Our phone lines for democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001, for independents 202 7488002 we have a special line set up for border states that 202 7488003 you can use that mind to text us with your first name, city, state and you can also reach us on social media at facebook on facebook. Com cspan and x at cspanwj. Congress passes a shortterm spending measure. The shutdown would have started this weekend if it had not passed. They extended the funding for federal agencies into march keying up another scramble with another shutdown deadline a week away. This stopgap passed on thursday evening and the funding deadline was pushed until march 8 and march 22. Lets get back to our topic which is the border in those visits as i mentioned President Biden was in brownsville. [video clip] the speaker of the house needs to put this on the f
With great internet. Wow supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudibleh conversations] the hearing will come to order. I welcome you all to todays hearing [inaudible] servicemembers put their lives on the line [inaudible] make sure the nations [inaudible] okay. That could be trouble. All right. Can we get the other brokerages like a started here . Servicemembers put their lives and their health on the line when they put on their uniforms here and in return we have a profound responsibility to make sure that the nation is doing all that he can to keep them safe, to prevent battlefields and training casualties, and to provide the best possible care for those who are injured. We are holding this hearing over there . Good. We are holding this hearing because dod is not beating its responsibilities when it comes to traumatic brain injuries and other injuri