A very good morning to you and welcome to aljazeera america. Its god to have you with us. The rollout of president obamas signature legislation, the Affordable Care act has been taking a beating on many fronts, but most criticism is focused on the federal website where people are supposed to sign up for insurance plans. Its still not working properly. Later today, some of the contractors who built the website will have some explaining to do. Theyre going to appear at the house energy committee. We begin our coverage. Lawmakers will be ready to pounce today at the first of three hearings to probe the glitches on the federal website healthealth care. Gov. The departmentors are expected to the grilled. The rollout of obamacare is nothing short of a debacle. On wednesday, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius met with Insurance Companies c. E. O. s at the white house, the contractors responsible for the nuts and boats say the initial high volume of users clogged the system,
Word, straight from panettis website, you can ask our speakers a question this afternoon by clicking on the q a box at the bottom of your screen, and we will try to get to as many of those questions as we can towards the end the program. But we apologize in advance if we dont have the time to address your question. Also, there are auto captions for this event by hitting the live caption button at the bottom of your screen, let me introduce our guests for this afternoon. Randall kennedy is the Michael Klein professor at harvard law school, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the bar of the district of columbia, the Law Institute and the American Academy of arts and sciences. He is the author of seven books. Kennedy will be in congress a conversation with layman. The author of the genre bending novel Long Division in the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Lehmanns bestselling memoir,
Live caption button at the bottom of your screen, let me introduce our guests for this afternoon. Randall kennedy is the Michael Klein professor at harvard law school, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the bar of the district of columbia, the Law Institute and the American Academy of arts and sciences. He is the author of seven books. Kennedy will be in congress a conversation with layman. The author of the genre bending novel Long Division in the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Lehmanns bestselling memoir, heavy an american memoir, one multiple awards, including the 2019 Andrew Carnegie mellon medal for excellence in nonfiction. Lehmann is a recipient of the 2023 2021 radcliffe fellowship in harvard. He is the founder of the catharine coleman literary arts and justice initiative, a program aimed at getting mississippi kids and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, r
Word, straight from panettis website, you can ask our speakers a question this afternoon by clicking on the q a box at the bottom of your screen, and we will try to get to as many of those questions as we can towards the end the program. But we apologize in advance if we dont have the time to address your question. Also, there are auto captions for this event by hitting the live caption button at the bottom of your screen, let me introduce our guests for this afternoon. Randall kennedy is the Michael Klein professor at harvard law school, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the bar of the district of columbia, the Law Institute and the American Academy of arts and sciences. He is the author of seven books. Kennedy will be in congress a conversation with layman. The author of the genre bending novel Long Division in the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Lehmanns bestselling memoir,
That happened in the morning of friday may 11th. An inch man entices and 11 yearold girl away from our school after all other students had already gone inside. A man had apparently supplied the girl with alcohol. According to the familys lawsuit that teachers failed to report this or the gross absence. Sheen and tell the principal. She called the parents of 5 00 at night. The school is closed this week for a fall break. I think it is really horrible that Something Like this happened. Im surprised we were not notified in the neighborhood. The girl continues to recover. For this to occur right outside of the school is unthinkable. The fact that it occurred and was seen by a teacher and allowed to have happen that is a problem appeared. An autopsy will be performed today on Human Remains Found in the citys south side. A decomposed body was discovered behind a building at 91st and harper yesterday morning. The body is believed to be female, but it has not yet been identified. A utility wor