Solicitor during the george h. W. Bush administration. He was asked about safety, the minimum wage and protections for lgbtq workers among other topics. Good morning. Good morning. Should. Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia to serve as United States secretary of of labor. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome secretary chao, secretary, good to see you, and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. There are so many of them i will the scalias are especially productive family, apparently, so it wont come any of your allotted time for your statement, and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings are a not necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more
The 14th anniversary of the Affordable Care act is later this month. N Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion on how Health Care Law has survived and changed over time. And by republicans efforts to repeal and replace it have failed. This is about 90 minutes. [inaudibleversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to the american Enterprise Institute, and todays event, chasing the ghost of the Affordable Careā n act. Decided not to go with Abraham Lincoln vampire killer, but we work on that. First, i am tom miller, senior fellow at the american Enterprise Institute and periodically i always talke d you do with the Affordable Care act. I think the Obama Administration for necessary. I think the Trump Administration for making it more litigious and regulatory. And i think the biden tion for being more nostalgic and reflective. So thats where we are at the moment. But this is kind an annual newsy in terms of getting with the Affordable Care act. They comes up with the anniversary of the
Yes, i jinked it again. Yes. I know. We have a couple here. Get a block of wood up here you have to tell people it is quiet, you know. Superstitious. A little bit of fog here and there nothing too widespread but it is out there storm scan isnt totally devoid of activity. You will not worry about wet weather, it looks like just a shower or two working its way cross the poconos but that is it. We have a warm front lifting up, right now and that is going to really allow these temperatures to spike. We mentioned 70s. That happens today. Wait until you see outlook for later on today but in the meantime just to give you perspective, look at how much warmer it is, compared to this same time yesterday, 21, 22, 23, even 25 degrees warmer, compared to this same time yesterday. So how does that translate to the thermometer . Well, we were in the 30s and even mount pocono bottomed out in the 20s yesterday. We are at 53 degrees right now , incredibly warm by comparison, so, i mean, might as well be
The house is getting ready to come in for the day, to gavel in. Live coverage begins in just a minute and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and 4 00 a. M. Pacific. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] order. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. June 28, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leader leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allotted allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than th
It is only appropriate everybody take your telephone device and take a photo of yourself. [laughter] because anybody that would start a meeting before a 00 on the eastern time zone cannot be all there. I am assuming that most of you had the opportunity to get at least your first cup of 10 starbucks down your belly and feeling good. Good morning. First of all, i want to make knowledge somebody before you yesterday. Fit campbell for the job he did 2013 the passion and disorganization for our industry has been incredible and part of what this is all about is the type of person that vic is the effort is a Guiding Light for those of us that will have to follow me with all the things that he did. Please stand up everybody give him a round of applause [applause] ladies and gentlemen, this morning i was supposed to be sharing the stage with jim the chairman of the American Hospital association and president and ceo of Presbyterian Health services n new mexico. He was supposed to be here with u