Capitol hill. Gao officials and health and Human Services Department Inspector general testifying in a hearing that just got under way, house subcommittee, hearing about potential areas of fraud and abuse in the 2010 health care law. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan 3. Welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses and we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average increase in premiums just this year. Some americans have experienced even higher premium increases and had to drop coverage because it became too darn ex
His investigation into russias election interference. Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, june 28th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. The political battle lines are already being drawn over the replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony kennedy who has announced he is retiring. Justice kennedy made that announcement yesterday saying he will step down at the end of next month. Now, his decision paves the way for the most significant change in the high courts makeup in nearly half a century. The move will allow President Trump the chance to shape the court into a solidly conservative one for years to come if not generations. Despite his refusal to replace the late justice, mcconnell made it clear yesterday he plans to start the process of replacing Justice Kennedy as soon as possible. We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedys successor this fall. Its imperative that the president s nominee be considered fairly and not subjected to personal attacks.
Federal internal investigators have uncovered alarming failures by universities to require scientists doing taxpayer-funded research to disclose when they also pocket money from China and other foreign countries.