[inaudible conversations] [applause] this is great. We have a full house tonight. Good evening. I am Jean Mccormick and i have the honor of being the president of the institute for the United States senate. It is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight along with our special guest for this Evenings Program, katie and robin who will be coming through this door in a minute. We are doing something a little different tonight. We are really thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute, membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you who might be visiting the institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. It is truly spectacular in the way that senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate. Every day, students and adults like you and i come in and become senators for a day and try to grapple wit
Special guest for this Evenings Program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. We are thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. Membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. Its truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate and the life of our government and every day students and adults like you and i sit in those seats and they become senators for a day and actually try to grapple with the same issues and be reminded of the Important Role of participation in a democracy. We all have to be involved. Through our interactive programs like tonight our goal is to see ourselves with the new generation and they keep thinking to myself real spy or as of th
Refinery causing evacuations. Im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Lets get to jackie ward live in benicia with the evacuations. Reporter we are live in front of the benicia public library. That is less than three miles away from the refinery. And we are up wind. That is why people here are not concerned with the air quality. That is why the doors behind me are wide open. Happening now. Benicia Fire Department and city officials are meeting with the media to update them and what we know so far is that the Contra Costa County hazmat team has not found any issue in the air quality. So that is good news. Also, the evacuation and shelter in place orders have been lifted. Huge flames and massive dark plumes of smoke poured from the stacks of the valero refinery. Yet, benicia resident Raymond Olsen is remaining calm. Sunrise, heard the whistle and it triggered the shelter in place. I looked outside, saw black smoke. Reporter pg e says the outage happened at 6 40 this morning. It only lasted 18
A vote could come as early as next thursday. Now, a look at the future of healthcare in the u. S. The senates work on healthcare is the topic of the next discussion. Also the longer look at what healthcare might look like in the United States. To guess joining us the senior policy correspondent and joining us for this correspondence is the White House Reporter and to both of you, thank you for joining us. I know you do not write the story but your colleagues say house that there is a plan vote on healthcare especially on the senate side street. Could you give us a sense of the white houses role and what youd like to see happen . Right in at brown now the cbo score early next week and then potentially vote on thursday. Is it was not yet aware that republicans have the votes that they need but a firmer sense at the end of the week and their confident things are heading in the right direction. And what is it being based on . Is the senate willing to take a gamble even at the votes are not
A vote could come as early as next thursday. Now, a look at the future of healthcare in the u. S. The senates work on healthcare is the topic of the next discussion. Also the longer look at what healthcare might look like in the United States. To guess joining us the senior policy correspondent and joining us for this correspondence is the White House Reporter and to both of you, thank you for joining us. I know you do not write the story but your colleagues say house that there is a plan vote on healthcare especially on the senate side street. Could you give us a sense of the white houses role and what youd like to see happen . Right in at brown now the cbo score early next week and then potentially vote on thursday. Is it was not yet aware that republicans have the votes that they need but a firmer sense at the end of the week and their confident things are heading in the right direction. And what is it being based on . Is the senate willing to take a gamble even at the votes are not