Deputy National Security advisor discuss the u. S. Israel alliance that followed by texas representative roy and policy advocates looking at the impact of israels war with hamas in helping the u. S. Best support of israel to defend against terrorist groups. This is from the heritage foundation. Vice president of the heritage foundations Davis Institute for National Security and foreign policy. [applause] thank you all for joining us today for this profoundly timely event on the 75th anniversary of the u. S. Israel alliance. Id like to start with a prayer. Heavenly father we pray for all of our friends in israel. We pray for all americans that they stand with our israeli friends and with the jewish people in this terrible time. We pray for your guidance and wisdom as we go through these discussions today not only celebrating the 75th anniversary of the u. S. History of alliance but the 1400. Amen. I did mention there is something kind of providential about the timing of this event becau
We know you are only two weeks into this job, but we expect you to know everything. We are still reviewing the effects of the recent reforms in the budget caps adjustments that were included in last weeks bipartisan budget act and we look forward to your testimony. Over the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape. It makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients. We recently advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare for the American People, continuing the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. Our committee played a firsthand role in developing legislation repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act that was passed by the house last may, we delivered market Oriented Solutions that would truly increase flexibility, reduce costs and re
Act and we look forward to your testimony. For the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape, makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients we advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare to the American People. Continue the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. In our committee played a firsthand role developing comprehensive legislation repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act passed by the house last may we delivered marketoriented solutions that would truly increase flexibility, reduce costs, and return control of health care to the American People where it belongs. All this bill stalled in the senate, congress continued to deliver relief from obamacare, including repealing the harmful effects of the individual mandate in independ
That exclusive cnbc investigation coming up as power lunch starts right now welcome, everybody i am Brian Sullivan. It may not look like stocks are doing much the dow is up 43 points. Modest gains but dont let the numbers fool you. As michelle said, those are all new intraday highs for the major indexes and hopefully for your money as well. This despite the north korean threat oils recovery helping some of the battered energy stocks, which is helping the overall market some big individual stock stories that you should be following, equifax battered again following a downgrade. That stock now down 35 since the data breach was announced a week ago and oracle down 7 , thats on concerns about its current quarter. Ty brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody im tyler mathisen, and heres what else is happening at this hour macys ramping up for the holidays, hiring 80,000 seasonal workers. But that is down from last year. Google reportedly considering investing a billion dollars in lyft
Csp csp cspspan. Or cspan. Org. Next, a look at hacking attempts by russia which may have targeted as many as 21 u. S. States. We heard yesterday from the person in charge of Cyber Security for the Homeland Security department janet manfra and other intelligence officials. From capitol hill this is a little over three hours. Hearing is in order. Today the committee convenes the sixth open hearing of 2017 to further examine russias interference in the election. This is an opportunity for the committee and the American People to drill down on this vitally important topic. In 2016 a hostile foreign power reached down into the state and local levels to touch voter data. It employed sophisticated cyber tools and capabilities and helped moscow to potentially build detailed knowledge of how our elections work. There was another example of russian efforts to interfere into a democracy with the goal of undermining our system. In 2016 we were woefully unprepared to defend and respond and im hope