We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Accountable care. Preventing rehospitalization, avoiding costly medical errors that lead to complications all those are steps that Accountable Care organizations like the hospitals, now that the payments for readmissions are being reduced those organizations have stronger incentives to address. Are there any areas where you are worried about the other direction, that the higherquality care may actually expensive, maybe for some specialty conditions, where there are extensive treatments needed . Any particular areas stand out there . Anything to Pay Attention to . What i would say about that is, we have had some technology firms, medical device firms, come and say, this payment is wonderful, but you are going to squelch innovation. What we have said is, we dont want to squelch innovation. There is a type of innovation that reduces costs, but even ones that may increase costs that are lifesaving or lifeenhancing. We are trying to find ways to measure that. We have been working closely wi
Discretion. Us in the interest of time and out of respect for all candidates, asked the Live Audience to refrain from clapping, sharing, or otherwise making noise with two exceptions. We welcome our candidates. [applause] thank you again for joining us. Good luck. Time is short, so lets get started. The first question will go to dr. Reeves. The department of justice has warned all School Districts they are required to educate all children regardless of immigration status. One estimate puts the cost in all 50 states and at least 760 milliont dollars. Should this be the cost of local School District or the federal government . I think the funding is coming from the federal government, and for thed be responsible federal government. Just take a look at the corridor of shame. President obama came down to South Carolina, and the corridor of shame refers to schools that have been neglected in rural areas. Children on free lunch or partial free lunch, and we turn that money down. That is what
She knew when she took office we had a crisis. She knew caseworkers had too many cases. They lied about the numbers they had on caseworkers. Get now . E suddenly they found the money to hire 120 new caseworkers. When we needed them . We could have saved so many lives. The same question please. I am a libertarian because i believe in small government. I believe government does have a role in our education, police and fire. We are being fined 1 million a year because we dont even have a childsupport Online Network system required by law. Years of this. We have a backlog on child fatalities. This is about prioritizing. Money tove plenty of the things we want by decriminalizing marijuana. Said workers are overworked and underpaid. We have the legislative branch, the executive branch. I will double the pay of everybody in the state of South Carolina. Want to be a republican and be broke, vote for them. I am trying to double the pay of our citizens. A young wife doesnt need to jobs. Wo or th
You trust to make these decisions about their own reproductive health. I trust women 100 of the time. I think they should be able to make those decisions with their families come a with their physicians. Scott brown voted against that when it came to appointing a new justice to the Supreme Court who was prochoice. He was opposed to elena kagan. When it came to supporting the freedom of choice act when he ran in 2010, he opposed that. Lets move to dante. He has been next question for senator shaheen. Winter is up. That is not a reference to the tv show, is it . [laughter] regardless of who is elected, electricity bills are about to skyrocket for many homeowners. What is the best way to ensure affordable rates . Energy is an important issue for us here in new england. We lowered rates by about 16 . It is why i have worked with the senate to come up with an Energy Strategy because i believe we have got to support new energy technologies, alternative sources of energy. I dont think we are