Health insurance, provided by the Affordable Care act. Called to order, subcommittee and oversight, thank you everyone for joining us today. We are holding this hearing virtually. In compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings. House resolution 965. Before we turn to todays important topics, i want to remind everyone of a few procedures to help you navigate this virtual hearing. , consistent with regulations. The committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for an muting themselves. Members are witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Rule, we will observe the and go in order of seniority. Ultimately between minority and majority. Beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee first. , thely, without objection representative is authorized to serve as chair in an event that i have some technical difficulties
The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. The presiding officer madam president , last week the Judiciary Committee held its hearing on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination and it was easy to see why judge barrett is held in such high regard by her colleagues, students, and peers and why the American Bar Association gave her its highest rating of well qualified. We knew well before the hearing that judge barrett possesses an extraordinary intelligence and comprehensive command of the law. After three days of testimony americans got to see her qualifications for themselves. They saw why she has been described as a jurist, a formidable intellect, a brilliant and conscientious lawyer and staggering academic mind. Even the democratRanking Member on the committee couldnt hide the fact that she was impressed. Judge barrett understands the proper role of a judge in our system of government. As judge barrett made clear, she understands the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not
Former congresswoman tenney is looking to regain her seat after narrowly losing to representative brindisi in 2018. She represented the district from 27 to 2019. Health care, rachel justice, the u. S. Supreme court are just some of the topics we feature tonight. This is ny22, a league of women voters debate. We have the three candidates and members of our crew socially distant in our studio. Thank you to the candidates for joining us on wskg tv and radio. Good evening. This debate is a partnership between wksg public media, that league of women voters of broome and tioga counties, and the Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote anywhere initiative. Our candidates are congressman Anthony Brindisi, republican nominee former congresswoman tenney, and libertarian candidate keith price. Absentee ballots are already in the mail. Voting access has been expanded to address concerns amid the pandemic. Here are the ground rules. Each candidate has one minute for opening and closing statements. Drawing de
Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
Independent dr. Al gross who is here in the studio and senator sullivan is joining us remotely from washington, d. C. Welcome to both of you. Mike you might have noticed were having some technical complications with this setup. If you hear a little screech every once in a while, dr. Gross is wearing an earpiece so he can hear what the senator is saying. Taylor perez will be getting questions from our viewers on social media. Were distanced here because of the pandemic. We are taking precautions. Well feature video questions from rural alaska and young alaska here in anchorage. Be sure to tune into Facebook Live immediately after this program for some debate analysis. Lori all questions and answers will be timed. A single bell will signal 10 seconds left and the bell will ring twice when the time is up. The candidates will have an opportunity to ask a question of each other during the debate. The candidate also start with a oneminute opening statement. The order was determined earlier b