Committee with ample time to go through them. And after that, most likely tomorrow morning, we will have another walkthrough and give members an opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the modification. Long story short, no one needs to be talking about the individual mandate at this point. Its not part of the mark. Arguments, questions, or statements about the individual mandate are a distraction from the meet weerg having nre havi frankly theyre a west of this committees time. Members have told me they have additional questions about the mark, and i want to be reasonable, accommodating. So i ask, do any members have any questions or comments about anything other than obamacare or the individual mandate . I do, mr. Chairman. I do. Mr. Chairman . Yes, yes. Lots. Thank you, mr. Chairman. First, the press is reporting that what will be offered tomorrow will contain a repeal of the individual mandate under the Affordable Care act. Are those press reports correct . It quotes mitch m
Welcome, everybody. Lets thank the First Unitarian Church for welcoming us here this evening. Church steps up and stands out and steps up for equal rights and social justice, and we want to thank them for that. I think we should thank comes blumenauer for holding this congressman blumenauer for holding this event. We think this is a major step toward to have this forum to talk about where we would like to go, and how you can get involved to move toward this goal. Let me outline the plan and i will get out of the way. We have some Major National and local experts on this issue about Health Reform who can help us understand these terms like singlepayer, medicare for all. And help us understand the National Landscape and then known and the local landscape in the state. They will be introduced in turn. Will endbefore 7 00, of that part of the program and have questions and answers. , whatwho have questions we will do is there will be people with microphones up top and down below, and when
Office on the Health Care Bill. Minority leader Chuck Schumer called it a jawdropping report to the cbo determined 22 million americans would lose Health Insurance. Okay, everyone. Thank you for coming. Id like to thank senator murray for being here. We expect senator wyden in a few minutes but we will start. I would like to thank my colleagues for joining me here today to discuss this jawdropping report from the congressional budget office. Todays report confirms what doc or is, patient advocates, democrats and republicans have been saying for weeks. Trump care will lead to higher costs, less care and will be to tens of millions of americans left without any insurance. For weeks, Senate Republicans try to tell us that their bill would be better than the house bill. He would be different than the house bill. Many house members even said they only voted for the house bill because the senate bill would make it better. Cbos report today makes it clear that this bill is every bit as mean a
Seen bond yields go higher and feel some gains within the financial world. We will get to that in a minute. As you look at the major averages, we are seeing gains across the board. The nasdaq is particular, bouncing off its 50 day moving average, are getting close to it. And the highs of the session here are up 1. 26 . But this is outpacing even the nasdaq, and small caps have regained their recent momentum, now at 1. 6 . But take a look at the bloomberg here. Chart i have been watching since the election because small caps came out so strong postelection, and now they are bouncing, this is a ratio of the russell 2002 the s p 500. They have both been bouncing to some degree or outperforming since the beginning of june. After the financials, to get back there to them, this is trading at its highest in three months. We have the second round of the stress test coming out after the close of trading, and following that we will hear about these Companies Capital return plans, whether they ha
Seen bond yields go higher and feel some gains within the financial world. We will get to that in a minute. As you look at the major averages, we are seeing gains across the board. The nasdaq is particular, bouncing off its 50 day moving average, are getting close to it. And the highs of the session here are up 1. 26 . But this is outpacing even the nasdaq, and small caps have regained their recent momentum, now at 1. 6 . But take a look at the bloomberg here. Chart i have been watching since the election because small caps came out so strong postelection, and now they are bouncing, this is a ratio of the russell 2002 the s p 500. They have both been bouncing to some degree or outperforming since the beginning of june. After the financials, to get back there to them, this is trading at its highest in three months. We have the second round of the stress test coming out after the close of trading, and following that we will hear about these Companies Capital return plans, whether they ha