Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a vereces of the committee at any time. This full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administration ee administrations attack on the aca. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. We are hear today because of on march 25th, 2019, the Trump Administration filed a two sentence letter with the United States court of appeals with the fifth circuit reversing its own previous position in the case of texas versus United States and asserting for the first time that it would not defend any portion of the Affordable Care act in the court. If the Trump Administrations position prevails and the entire aca is struck down, there will be catastrophic implications for millions of americans in the entire United States Health Care System. Ive often said that voting for the Affordable Care act was the most important vote of my career. And let me tell you why. When Congress Passed the aca in
The report exonerated President Trump and he has said time or Counsel Robert Mueller said no. Things for democrats and republicans to light for a number of reasons, but in terms of moving the needle on impeachment, questionable if the first hearing would do anything to do as much. David we have a second hearing shortly after theyre done with this one. If they are not moving the needle, might this be good news for Speaker Pelosi . She has made no secret of the fact that she would not fight the 2020 election on impeachment. Kevin from her perspective, yes. Respective,akers impeachment would impose a significant political risk. In terms of also the Agenda Setting for the democratic party. From the progressive bases perspective, they feel that this is something it is time to come to fruition. They feel the base once this and they feel their voters and constituents, particularly in altra progressive district, have been calling on this for several years in ultra progressive districts, have b
Its time to wake up because shingles could wake up in, you solomon in new york cnn coming out swinging President Biden, hammering donald trump on the Campaign Trail while his republican rival returns the favor with insults as the race heats up following last weeks state of the Union Address. Meantime, the rebuttal to that speech leading to controversy of its own. Senator katie britt wanted to focus on which she describes as President Bidens failures, but now the spotlight is on one of her own mistakes we have more fallout from britts response as she denies misleading the country with a story she told in her speech and out of the public eye, but very much on their minds, people in britain and really the whole world want to know what is going on with the princess of wales as an edited photo only fuels concerns about her health were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central were going to be hearing from President Biden soon from th
Good evening everybody. My distinct pleasure to be here this evening or this next panel of women and girls in politics zones and their participation. Its been a fantastic afternoon so far. Im also frustrated that we are still having to say womensightd human rights or womens rights. When it comes to conflict as well. Theyve been focused on the u. S. So far in the economy here and how to be more inclusive here and we are going to take you overseas now where this extraordinary panel i will introduce but i want to have you focus your mind on what it means to be going overseas to talk about conflict abroad. They can be easy to think of them as far away, other would urge you to think of these other places where you have conflict is not exactly the se deal withe issues come for sams the. Systemic biases in the same gender pay gaps in conflict. I think the panel we have here will help us figure out how we can get suchre practical advice that we have from secretary raymonda for example of how w
Ood evening. Its my distinct pleasure to be here for this next panel about women and girls in conflict zones and the participation has been a fantastic afternoon so far, i am frustrated we are still having to say womens rights are human rights particularly when it comes to conflict abroad. We have been focused on the u. S. So far and were going to take you overseas with the extrrdinary panel. I want to help you woke us your minds about what it means to talk about conflict abroad. We could think about faraway complex, but i would think of places where you have complex that biases, gender pay gaps and on top of tha, conflict. The panel we have will help us figure out how we can get practical advice conflict to sod include women in the Peace Process. 0 i will start by introducing te panel. Everyone here has an illustrious ogi will keep it short. We have a cofounder and president of the school of leadership in afghanistan, the first and only boarding school for afghan girls that operated 2