My first stop in the series was at the Commonwealth Fund to learn more about health care and how it got so expensive. We solicited a lot of patient stories through social media and at the end of the series i had this bank of woe of patient stories, people who were smart for the most port New York Times readers who had not been able to make the system work. By there time you are finished, you realized you just scratched the service. I felt like i needed to know because it shows how prices had gotten as a physician to tried in the 80, i knew health care had not always been this way. I wanted to understand how did we get to this system which literally nobody seems to like right now. And by understanding that how can we get to a better place. We have seen so many efforts reform and everybody agrees to needs to be reformed but as see see on the hill today we are still arguing. As you mentioned, you are a physician i am a physician. We went to the same medical school. Harvard medical school.
Within the military construction of veterans, a portion of this bill and i thank the chairman for his leadership military infrastructure funding has increased by 25 above current levels. Continue our efforts to rebuild our armed forces, ensuring our war fighters have the support they need. We cannot forget those who served. This measure increases funding for the department of Veterans Affairs by 5 over current levels to provide veterans and a and their families with access to medical care and other benefits they have earned and deserve. Within the energy and water section of this legislation, i thank chairman simpson for his leadership. Funding is prioritized for Critical Nuclear programs that will help strengthen our security and deter threats around the globe. We also support the maintenance of our nations waterways and support the work of our army corps and to ensure security of our electricity infrastructure. We recommit to opening Yucca Mountain as a safe location to permanently s
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Potential immediate shut down of the entire daca program, President Trump took the step of announcing the administration will be phasing out the program over the next two years. Today, september 5th deadline was set by the plaintiffs presenting the administration with two and only two real options to choose from. The likely sudden cancellation of the program by a judge or an orderly wind down that preserves the rule of law and returns the question to the legislative branch where it belongs. The president chose the latter of the two options. The president made the best decision in light of the fact that the system set up by the Obama Administration in clear violation of federal law, president obama even admitted this himself when announcing the program calling it a temporary stopgap measure. And calling on congress to act. Daca was initiated after congress rejected the same proposal in legislative form. In other words, president obama didnt just suspend federal law, but implemented a po
Program take hundred thousand mostly adult illegal aliens. 800,000 mostly its old aliens. It was after congress rejected legislative proposals to extend similar benefits to the same group of illegal aliens. In other words, it deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions. Such an openended circumvention of Immigration Law wasnt unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive ranch. Executiveeral amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border that yielded horrible humanitarian consequences, and also denied jobs to americans by allowing the same illegal alien to take our jobs. We inherited from our founders have it danced and cap advanced a foundation of our redone, safe the end prosperity. As attorney general, it is my duty to ensure that the laws of the United States arent wars and that the cut are enforced in the constitutional border are is upheld. Than preserving and st