They have. This was the president s quote, just visit healthcare. Gov and there you can compare insurance plans side by side the same way youd shop for a plane ticket or a t. V. While yall were testifying i went on amazon and looked for a t. V. Within one minute i had over 300,000 options of t. V. s that i could purchase and they were low cost t. V. s too. I tried to go on healthcare. Gov to register earlier this week. I spent more than two hours. Was kicked out four times. Had to reenter data multiple times. Was given blank screnals a number of times. Ultimately never got to a place i could see Healthcare Plans where i could compare side by side like the president promised. Its not the experience you get when people go online and purchase products. This is a product the federal government said you have to buy by law or you get find. And were asking for at least a delay of the fine while people cant even go to the website that doesnt work. I used to Program Computers for a living. I un
Later today discussion on the nsa trevelyans programs. The meeting will focus on privacy issues and that gets underway live at noon eastern here on cspan. More from the road to the white house 2016 with ted cruz. Hes speaking at the annual Iowa Republican party reagan dinner. You can watch a live at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. A pair of profile interviews. We spoke with joe manchin and Cathy Mcmorris rodgers. Those conversations will air starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. , the yesterdays hearing ministration released figures claiming about 700,000 people have signed up so far. Officials did not write down those numbers per state. Will testifyer before the house ways and Means Committee on tuesday. Check www. Cspan. Org for our coverage plans. Tragediesirsthand the that children face this week when they are not care for by loving parents. It was in the sheriffss office where i first witnessed the horrors of child sex trafficking and it convinced me that we needed to do more to protect o
And judicial nominees ending and ongoing dispute over nominations that had tied up most of the chamber this month. The most highprofile nomination was janet yellen for the federal reserve. The hearing will be held in january and the senate will vote confirmation of the deputy secretary of the department of homeland security, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue service, and a u. S. Allrict judge in florida this morning. Earlier on thursday, senators had been preparing for a rare weekend session as democrats and republicans were at loggerheads on when to help hold votes. Senate democrats were informed during their closed Party Meeting that they would be staying in washington through saturday. Republicans had sketched out a plan ensuring one of their members with stay on the floor to keep their eye on democrats. Six other executive branch nominees were pending, mostly deputy ands for state. That batch of nominees will be sent back to the white house because they were not cleared by t
Point, yes, we have class warfare. Those who are poor are completely left out of the National Dialogue on poverty and hunger. That is a bipartisan effort, to keep people who are poor out of the National Dialogue. That is why i work with low income women to be able to take photographs and provide direct testimony on their experiences with raising children in poverty, how to break cycles with poverty, and there are so many conversations happening. This concept of violence and the trail. People have been silenced for so many years. Betrayal. People have been silenced for so many years. Poverty is solvable. They and expect nothing less. They are raising their children and they expect their child to be the president of the United States, a lawyer, a doctor, and they want the best education, the best type of food, a safe and affordable home to live. The women we work with are investing so much into their children. They are having to trade off paying for rent and paying for food, and trade of
To privatize our schools are setting up academies. Dr. Martin Luther King Academy of leadership and enterprise. Or they will name them for langston hughes, frederick douglass. I do not think a lot people should let them name the schools. [laughter] [applause] they should name it for people they do not like. [laughter] here are a few points. I will be unfashionable tonight. Everyone in washington seems to think the way to solve the problems in our schools is to not give them another cent, another penny, to improve and make the Schools Look Like places that are inviting and respect the value of children. Aesthetics count. Do not do that, but beat up on their teachers. That is the trend today. [applause] attack the unions. I heard about the Teachers Union from teachers in l. A. Last fall. I flew to chicago to stand with them the day they went on strike. They were right to go on strike. [applause] i will tell you something. I am in schools all the time. When i was a young teacher, i rememb