Students in grades 612 and students may work alone or in groups of up to three. Contestants are asked to produce a 57 minute video documentary supporting their chosen topic and to include some cspan programming. That 100,000 in cash prizes will go to 150 students and the 53 teachers, and the grand prize winner with the best overall entry will win 5,000. The deadline for entries this year is january 20, 2015, and winners will be announced in march. Visit www. Studentcam. Org for more information on this years contest, the three branches and you. Coming up next, a discussion on the costs and benefits connected to the Health Care Law implementation. Then a forum on nsa surveillance programs x. Live at 12 30 p. M. Eastern, film maker ken burns talks about his pbs documentary on the roosevelts. Health Care Industry leaders recently took part in a Panel Discussion on Health Care Costs and innovations. The event was hosted by the National Institute of Health Care Management foundation. Paneli
He has been on the floor for 5. 5 hours. We will show you some of his speech over the next couple of hours. You can continue to watch it on cspan two. We have put up a poll. Speech ond cruzs defunding obamacare. Here is the poll. Do you support ted cruz as he speaks in the u. S. Senate to defund Health Care Law . 1225 are in support voting against 394. We will also give you a choice chance to weigh in on twitter. Were also looking at some of the congressional reporters. This could be a late night up at capitol hill. It was a tweet a short while ago ed okeefe. The way you join that conversation is the cspan tage page. The senate takes its first procedural vote on the stopgap bill. Wednesday will vote and likely overwhelmingly to limit the spending bill. We will get to the u. N. Speeches just a it later on. Back to the senate, ted cruz cruzs speech. One thing we learned from henry that it willts is be short. Comments. Nator reeds we will hear from the republican leader after that. The se
Leave the chamber for any reason without risking control of the floor. When the senator started yesterday, he said he would speak in support of defunding obamacare, if you will, until he can no longer stand. This is not an official filibuster. Its more symbolic since he will not be able to prevent a cloture vote which harry reid scheduled for midday today. During his nearly 20 hours, senator cruz has read tweets, hes read dr. Sues ss green eggs and ham to his kids. Now, moments ago we were told this could come to a close shortly. You can watch it on our companion network on cspan2. We smoke with alexander bolton, congressional reporter, who writes for the hill newspaper earlier today. Well, sometime this afternoon theres going to be this vote to end debate on the motion to proceed and this is the first step to getting on the bill. Cloture will be invoked. It will end debate. It a motion to proceed itself, at that point and thats also expected to pass. The senate will then be on the bil
Toi think it is important remember there is no open enrollment for medicaid. We have i think had a very. Ich discussion here i think it cannot be understated whats an Important Role commitment at the state level to making this work is in terms of being able to move forward and get people connected to insurance. We have also seen from individuals here that we are really building on the experience of the chip program where we learn to do outreach to children and use perry is mechanism to reach people in the community. I think all activities are going to be local and really does depend on mountain on the groundwork. Important thing we have learned is also takes a Real Partnership between people working at the state level tom inside of State Government, outside of State Government and especially with providers and communitybased partners. This is a big effort going forward. Starts open enrollment but does not stop the effort to get many people the kind of coverage they need either through
Your entertainment last night. I want to call to order the meeting of the health and Human Services committee. By saying we have a few administrative items to take care of. The governors should have received briefing books in advance including the agenda and nga updates. Sitting next to me is melinda becker, legislative director for health and Human Services for nga, and she will be available after the services if anyone needs further details about what we are talking about. A reminder that the proceedings for this committee are open to the press, and all meeting attendees, i would ask you to silence your cell phones and electronic devices. The discussion will focus on two issues every governor spent a lot of time picking about and working on, first given the democratic demographic changes, rising cost of health care, and other factors, how can we expect the u. S. Health system to evolve over the next decade . For all of us, im willing to make the save that that Health Care Costs save