Including the first africanamerican republican and the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members of congress using congressional chronicle on cspan. Org. The page has lots of useful information, including voting results. New congress, best access on cspan cspan2, cspan radio and cspan. Org. I really weekend, the Democratic National committee released an interim review of the partys losses in the Midterm Elections. It showed the democrats lack a single election strategy. They need to focus on local elections. Kentucky governor steve bashiear talked about some of the points during the winter meeting. This is about an hour and a half. I hereby call the 2015 winter meeting of the Democratic National committee back into session from recess. The colors will be presented by the Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School color guard. Please rise for the presentation of the colors. Join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United State
No one really knows what the impact of that will be, but from a financial standpoint, im eager going to see a lot of businesses do that, and it will change the whole framework of health care in the United States. Recognizing people going to a 30 hour week . Upthere are people growing to only a certain amount of employees, and others reduce the hours. There was a story on the news in ogle the city about a man who was building a storm shelter. We had a terrible storm in may of last year, so hit a storm shelter company, and he had grown into 70 employees. With the new mandates under the Affordable Health care act, his Health Insurance costs were going to go up 250,000. He dropped his employees back to 50,000, and then all of a sudden it got delayed, and he had to let all of them go. That stopped his business from growing. , of whate first affect youre talking about a moment ago. We believe that governors should lead the way. Governors have to find solutions to the problems. A lot of issue
Mandatory minimum sentences in drug cases. Live coverage at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. 3, there will be a hearing on disabled military veterans and we will have live coverage starting at 2 00 eastern. I think there are some myths out there. I think that people think the maraschino cherry is some righteously preserved product and it is no different than a pickled cherry. The brine process is no different than with types of sulfate to use in making wine. Really, it is a i wouldnt call it a healthy product, but i would call it something that is a tasty treat. What you see here is cherries in various stages of process. The cherries that come in, even though they put them in water, they will have right in the fruit and so they will go through an extensive washing to get the sulfur and the call cm calcium salt out of the fruit. The practice of making them is basically, you taking that brine and youre soaking it in a stronger and stronger sugar and color solution. Over the course of that syrup theg
Good morning. In 2014 National Conference participants. Please welcome president of an allamerica. [applause] hello. Good morning, everyone. Morning and welcome. The First National in Rural America conference. Giving america it coverage. Excited to have you here today. [applause] you know, when we first started planning this conference months and months ago our hope was to bring together enrollment leaders from across the country to reflect back on the historic first open enrollment time and share best practices for the future. We thought maybe a few couple hundred of our friends would come to d. C. For this, but we never expected that more than 900 attendees would join as from communities in 48 states [applause] yes, and credible. Not just that, including the District Of Columbia and as far away as qualm. Pretty amazing. So thank you all for being here and a thankyou for our generous sponsors, many of whom are in the room today. Especially those that help make this conference possible
And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace,head cade, and chip. Medicaid, etplace, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson help from persons in their communities. You made sure they knew about the opportunities for Financial Assistance, which finally made Health Insurance a reality for millions who couldnt afford it in the past and you stood ready to handle the surge in signups as the deadline approach