Assisting individuals with federal and state benefit programs. Most navigators are nonprofit, nonpartisan Community Service providers and have effective privacy provisions in place. Those are the facts and the show good news. You talking your Opening Statement about the navigators were going from door to door and that is a concern. Thats why we have to have the real navigators in place so they can sign people up. Just yesterday hhs, doj and the ftc announced a massive antifraud effort. I would suggest we all Work Together to stop any kind of fraud in the system. With that i want to yield the balance of my time to the representative castor. I think the Ranking Member for yielding time. The enthusiasm i am hearing back home from so many of my neighbors, particularly when it comes to now the bar against discrimination for our neighbors that have preexisting conditions. Just over the past few weeks i met with Community Leaders and multiple sclerosis and diabetes, hiv aids, cancer that now
Is but heres a point that people miss. Seven other times the president has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant and the law he side in fact was not going to endure. What about the preexisting Condition Program . This law was sold on the backs of people with preexisting conditions across this country and yet when someone showed up on february 1st of this year to enroll in the pcip program, they were told, sorry, sister, the program is closed. For 11 months people with preexisting conditions who were promised relief are simply wandering the country what they were supposed to do. Shop exchanges put off to 2015. Delaying final contracts with contractors. Delaying the employer mandate. Removing outofpocket caps. No premium information. This was promised to me by the administrator of cms in july in this committee that i would have this information by september 15. Mr. Cohen we are going the long way now to september 15th. Go to the website on healthcare. Gov. Come back and
Because our financial position , we havecarious considered to raise prices above the rate of inflation. It is important we discussed this issue today. Directspects have a bearing on pricing decisions that may impact the health of our customers. Quicklyic service is moving down a path to becoming a massive longterm burden to the american taxpayer. The legislation is a great starting point to get as off the path of disaster and onto the path of continued financial stability. We agree with the overall approach that provides important pricing and product flexibility and a strong framework for restructuring. Meet the goal of generating savings of 20 billion by 2017, the legislation must resolve our longterm Health Care Costs. I believe this is achievable. I am greatly encouraged by discussions we have had on this topic which i know we will continue to discuss next week. I would like to thank the committee for tanking this. I look forward to supporting your work. This concludes my remarks. T
The committee on agriculture passed out a bipartisan bill in the last congress and it was never brought before my republican friends. This year the Committee Also passed out a bipartisan bill that was brought to this floor. It could have and should have been passed with a bipartisan vote. Not because i agreed with all of it, but because it was appropriate to have a bill to go to conference with on this important subject. Our republican friends added three amendments which we harmful to clearly those in need in america. As a result, we didnt vote for it, but thats not why it failed, mr. Speaker. It failed because 62 republicans voted against the bill reported out with every republican voting in committee for it. One was mr. Lucas, the chairman of the committee observed, it apparently wasnt good enough for those 62 republicans. Compromise seems very difficult for some people in this house. But i again remind us all it is absolutely essential. It we then passed a farm bill which said, unl
House. The president has invoked executive privilege over the entire Mueller Report and its underlying evidence and that triggers jerry nadler to a accuse the executive branch of sabotaging any negotiations over the report. By invoking executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena, that process has come to a screeching halt. The administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize congress as a coequal branch of government with n independent constitutional oversight authority. But republicans speaking up showing opposition to Holding Bill Barr in contempt. This is a first step. What a cynical meanspirited counter productive irresponsible step is meanwhile economy is surging and unemployment is low and the democrats have no plans, no purpose and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking this administration. The house is more than four months into a democratic majority. How many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law . Lets go