Democrats and republicans have been in the same room talking about those topics. One of the points many of us made republicans and democrats is that the process in the house is broken. Theres no interaction. And the president made the point that the most significant legislation has to have bipartisan support. We havent had that. So in that perspective, it was quite impressive the president invited both sides. On the tax issue coming up, thats the most dominant right now. The president repeat what had he said in his original address about it being progrowth and promiddle class. Indicated explicitly that this would not be a tax cut pardon me . You could find this cameras by yourself . It wasnt that hard. Thanks. And so in terms of the broad general principles, the president recited what he said before. And basically everybody will be a winner. The question is when the ink is dry, will you be able to do the math and see that, in fact, middle class folks particularly Rural America that ele
All members will have five legislative days in which to submit materials for inclusion into the records. The hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine legislation that would impose a secondary legislations on foreign banks whose business support north koreas regime. By encompassing virtually all of north koreas economic activity, these measures would represent the top list financial sanctions yet. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals. And north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. S. Sanctions by where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. The bills countries on notice. The proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea as well as the u. N. Panel of erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. North koreas six tests o
Sen. Sanders let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon. Let me thank our special guests, the media likes to talk about the politics of this event, who is supporting it and why and its impact and blah, blah, blah. But the American People want to know what we will do to fix this dysfunctional Healthcare System that cost us twice as much per person compared to any other country, but leaves 28 Million People uninsured and even more underinsured. That is what the market people the American People want to know in terms of what we are doing. And that is what we will be talking about today. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders and i want to tell you, i want to tell you that i am just very excited about the kind of support that are medicare for all legislation is receiving all across this country and right here in the United States senate. As of today, we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. [applause] [applause] and in order of seniority, because that is the protocol here in t
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
This hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north koreas i recognize myselfe minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine legislation that would impose a secondary legislations on foreign banks whose business support north koreas regime. By encompassing virtually all of north koreas economic activity, these measures would represent the top list financial sanctions yet. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals. And north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. S. Sanctions by where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. The bills countries on notice. The proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea as well as the u. N. Panel of erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. North koreas six tests on september 3 coupled with repeated launching of Ballistic Missiles undermines underlines that more must be done. Legislative draft