Holiday. The president bushed hard for it last night and middleclass tax cut that would put 4,000 into the pockets of middleclass families. One more for you. The Justice Department is confronting 7 sanctuary cities, obey federal law or lose federal funds. Last chance. With all these policy statements, whats going on with your money . Stocks will open slightly lower. Lets not forget after hitting the 56th record on wednesday the dow is just 127 points away from 23,000. We say it every day, could you believe this . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart the news from Northern California is grim, the fire still rage through wine country. 23 now dead. 3,500 homes and businesses damaged and the fire has burned, now 170,000 acres, its a very human tragedy. The fires concentrated around the vineyards. Ashley, do we have any handle of the Wine Industry . Extremely difficult to figure out what damage has been done to wineries. Two things, theres the wineries and vineyards, five win ris, the b
Good morning. President trump and his administration are committed to ensuring hardworking americans have access to Affordable Health care. Mr. President , your executive order signed today is an important step in achieving that goal. I want to thank you and your administration for continuing to focus in finding Affordable Health care solutions. In addition to instructions given to the treasury and health and Human Services departments, the president will task the department of labor with considering ways to deliver quality, Affordable Health care to the american workforce. I would i like to call upon senator randy hall to say a few brief words. Thank you. Secretaryou, acosta. Todays a big day. President trump is doing what i believe is the biggest free market reform of health care in a generation. This reform, if it works and goes as planned, will allow millions of people to get insurance across state lines at an inexpensive price. 28 Million People were left behind by obamacare. Do n
The committee on health, education, pensions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , inst
Sions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , instead oftors talking about drug prices, w
More choices of help Health Insurance policies and to extend cautionary production subsidies during 2018in and 2019. The subsidies pay for copays and aboutor the bulls for millis of low income americans who buy Health Insurance on the Affordable Care act exchanges. Our goal is to stabilize a number where the cost of premiums and to enable americans to have access to Health Insurance. I legislation will be based on the four hearing and other meetings that the Senate Health education and Labor Pension Committee held last month. Chairman of the committee and senator murray is the rankingom democratic member. Thesee hearings were bipartisan. They were lengthy and they were remarkable in this sense. Then came nearly 60 senators from bothat Political Parties in the discussion to not only have the four hearing which involve the members of our Health Committee, but we invited any to come to a Committee Meeting and meet the governors and state commissioners and others who are testifying. 37 did