Impeachment resolution of President Trump, and members will begin debate on raising the minimum wage. Now to live coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, the reverend john p. Fitzgibbons, regis university, denver, colorado. God, plain most holy please unite and guide the leaders in this house to recognize, to speak for, and to safeguard the vulnerable and the marginalized in all corners of our nation. Help us to hear and to champion the rights of dreamers of all colors, all context, and all ages, especially the young whose ardent desire is to know and to build a better society. Help us to illuminate the path and to advocate for our countrys learners and their teachers so that access to education and the power of knowledge will continue to produce servant leaders committed to democracy, equality, and justice. Help us to unite our hearts and our minds to share freely of our gifts, to reflect crit
For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Rouda madam speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and agree to the bill h. R. 1844. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1844, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 66 grove court in elgin, illinois, as the Corporal Alex martinez Memorial Post Office building. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman california, mr. Rouda, and the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Keller, will each control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california. Mr. Rouda thank you. I ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this measure. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rouda thank you, madam speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. Madam speaker, i am pleased to join my colleag
The day he will take questions from the house intelligence committee. Both open sessions. Mr. Muellers report into russian interference in the 2016 election will air live on cspan3 online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding conspires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system nan the rest of the u. S. Congress funds them through block grants. So when the territories are hit by hurricane they go through funds faster and deplete the grants early. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on why states get continuous medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committees meeting today today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the insular areas under the Affordable Care act also known as the insular areas medicaid cliff. And the Committee Rule 4 f any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman and the ranking
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac this hearing on the medicaid cliff currently facing the u. S. Territories. The medicaid funding is provided provided by the aca is set to expire this calendar year and the lack of a funding solution will be particularly harmful for American Samoa as i know it will be for the other territories. Id like to thank our witnesses for making the long trip to washington to testify before the committee today. Welcome. Each of your firsthand experiences will provide congress with an accurate assessment of the situation. Acas first allotment of funds became available in july of 2011, long before i and many of us here were elected to congress. Those funds were only accessible after the normal annual allotment was exhausted. Medicaid and chip payment and access commission, otherwise moan as mack pack published a fact sheet for American Samoa which has a list for cal table of total medicaid spending from fy 11 to fy 17 taken from reported expenditures from t
Brian has a longer history, he w person for Health Policy change if not reform. Different opinions on that in the trump whitse and prior history on the senate side and on the house side after the enactment of the he has been be a spring board and Research Assistant and the rest isry. He has been able to overcome i. John was over there in the senate which is the important health, education and Labor Committee with senator kennedy and wrote a book about it. 12, 13 years ago. John was a practicing politician and knew how to run forffice and get votes on occasion. Were all recovering in different w speaker. I may have some additional thoughts at the back end and then question and answer. Kind of our basic format for today. Why we are doing it more or less, the speakers and then the format. I have a lot of shutin time. I was streaming a lot, you have to have a tight if you are going to Health Policy comedy. N. And lets see what we got. Hopefully triggering rounds of deeper discussion and re