The committee on Health Care Benefits will come to order without objection, the chair is authorized. My understanding that democrats caucus is not designated who all the members are. Well. Wrence as we dont know who is all on this committee. We need to do a unanimous consent that all members on the committee be allowed to participate without objection. So ordered. Welcome to the new congress. Mr. Krista morphy, we appreciate you being here and being the making member. We have mr. Mitchell and a number of other new members to the Oversight Committee will be joining us from the democrat side. I want to welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get to our witnesses. We appreciate our witnesses in your today, talking about an important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised that the Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting
We now know the identity of the 109 im notsot109 im not we now know the identity of the worker who was killed yesterday while clearing a mudslide on highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. 54yearold robert gill of los banos died after a dump truck backed up. Hittimg him and another crew member who was pinned under the truck for a time before rescuers were able to pull him out. He was taken to the hospital. And was conscious at the time. Both men worked for a watsonvillebased construction company. Which was subcontracted to caltrans. The accident is being investigated by the chp and state safety investigators. Meantime. Two fundraisers have been set up online. One is to help with funeral expenses for the gill family. Another is for a gratitude meal to thank the crews working so hard to clear the roads. You can find links to both on kron4dotcom also in the south bay. Highway 35 in los gatos is now indefititely closed. You can see why in this video courtsey of our partnership with abc7 ne
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