Good morning, everybody. Id like to welcome you to our event this morning that aims to bring us together for a dialogue on issues. Id like to thank chairman greg walden for being here today particularly after the news we heard this morning. Here at bloomberg government, our tools, news, and analysis is closely aligned with topics the house energy and Commerce Committee has been working on so we look forward to working with him on health care and other topics. With that id like to introduce my colleague, lauren, who leads content at bloomberg government, who will be chatting with chairman walden this morning. Thank you. [applause] thank you, arielle and thank you for everyone joining us. Were beginning the event under a darker circumstance. I want to ask you, chairman walden what do you know so far and whats the status of your colleagues at the moment . Greg thank you and good morning, everyone. Its not the way i want to start a day any day. I hope well have a moment of silence and put
Dialogue on the current legislative issues. In particular, id really like to thank chairman greg walden for being here today, particularly after the news we all heard this morning. Here at Bloomberg Government our tools, news and analysis are aligned with topics that the house energy and Commerce Committee has been working on. Were looking forward to discussing with him health care, energy, Consumer Protection among other topics. With that id like to introduce my colleague, lauren duggen who leads content at Bloomberg Government and will be chatting with greg walden this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you toerch for joining us today. Obviously were beginning the event under a little bit of a darker circumstance, but i wanted to ask you, chairman walden, what do you know so far and whats the status of your colleagues at the moment . Thank you and good morning. Its not the way we want to start a day any day, and i hope well have a moment of silence and put in our prayers th
Dialogue on the current legislative issues. In particular, id really like to thank chairman greg walden for being here today, particularly after the news we all heard this morning. Here at Bloomberg Government our tools, news and analysis are aligned with topics that the house energy and Commerce Committee has been working on. Were looking forward to discussing with him health care, energy, Consumer Protection among other topics. With that id like to introduce my colleague, lauren duggen who leads content at Bloomberg Government and will be chatting with greg walden this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you toerch for joining us today. Obviously were beginning the event under a little bit of a darker circumstance, but i wanted to ask you, chairman walden, what do you know so far and whats the status of your colleagues at the moment . Thank you and good morning. Its not the way we want to start a day any day, and i hope well have a moment of silence and put in our prayers th
Telecom, technology, all of i would like to start with the biggest issue, which is health care. We know your Senate Colleagues on a bill maybe behind closed doors, circulating language, where do you assess the status of this . Greg in the first few months of the year, when we had this task before us, we got a lot of public suggestions from some of our colleagues across the aisle about what we should or shouldnt do. After we passed the bill and sent it over to the senate thats been kind of radio silence thereafter. They got a tough job. I respect that. I know theyre serious about their work. I know Lamarr Alexander is a terrific legislator. If anyone can help pull this together its him and orrin hatch and the others that are involved. Its hard. Its hard doing major reform of entitlement programs, something involving insurance at any level, especially Health Insurance, its very difficult work. And they have virtually no margin of votes, like we had no margin to work with, theirs is tight
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