The hearing will come to order. My understanding is that the democrat caucus has not designated who all the members are. We need to do unanimous consent that all members be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing without objection, so ordered. Welcome to the new congress. If you would like a we have mr. Mitchell and i know a number of other new members will be joining us from the democrats side, as well. So i want to welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses. And we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average incr
Vacuuming up water. You can see water dripping fromr the elevators. Take a look at that. T. Thats extraordinary. Ats we have a Flood Warning in effect. Lets get right to caitlyn roth in the Weather Center for the latest. We have had such a busy afternoon with Severe Weather s far that is ongoing. Heavy rain in the district righ now. Th i would suspect everyone roadsrn to a standstill. We urge you not to go out on thh roads. There is a flash Flood Warning. We have several rounds of thunderstorms, all of that rain causing the rain. Ain lots of wind damage like whatat you just saw out from Howard County. Its really just a dangerousdang evening. Well show you round two of severe thunderstorms sweepinghu through the baltimore, bal washington area. Wash a lot of lightning with thesehee storms and they keep formingform back towards our west. This is an ongoing Severe Weather thea that watch in effect untilunti 9 00 p. M. Right over the heart of the district, rain lightning, Severe Weather war
A drunk driver blew through a stop sign and hit them at full speed. They narrowly survived. This family has been fighting every since to prevent an accident like that from happening again. A story sadly been told one too many times. Times. His blood alcohol level. 3 times the legal limit. How much have you had to drink tonight. Couple beers. Whats more specifically. Whats a couple beers. He failed every test officers asked him to he was charged with his sixth duiment his sentence. Five years probation. 75 hour of community service. Im scared. Heres why. In all the research that we did, so that we could testify. We found out that for every time a drunk driver is caught. Hes driven 80 times and not gotten caught. Spent years fighting lt strength in colorado law. A stop sign. And hit her son. Last year colorado finally joined 45 other states in making a fourth dui a felony. What the law didnt do is mandate jail time. For most repeat offenders. Its watered down. He served 3 years in prison
A drunk driver blew through a stop sign and hit them at full speed. They narrowly survived. This family has been fighting every since to prevent accident like that from happening again. A story sadly been told one too many times. Its one hes lived too many times. His blood alcohol level. 3 times the legal limit. How much have you had to drink tonight. Couple beers. Whats more specifically. Whats a couple beers. Asked him to perform. He was charged with his sixth duiment his sentence. Five years probation. 75 hour of community service. Im scared. Heres why. In all the research that we did, so that we could testify. We found out that for every time a drunk driver is caught. Hes driven gotten caught. Spent years fighting lt strength in colorado law. After a repeat drunk driver ran a stop sign. And hit her son. Last year colorado finally joined 45 other states in making a fourth dui a felony. What the law didnt do is mandate jail time. For most repeat offenders. Its watered down. He served
West philadelphia funeral home today to pay respects to officer Robert Wilson iii. At one point today the line wrapped around the block all to honor the man who lost his life protecting this community. G evening, im Chris Oconnell good evening im dawn timmeney. A city in mourning begins its final farewell to officer wilson wilson. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live outside the funeral home where tonights viewing wrapped all little while ago. Shawnette, a tough night for phillys finest. Reporter no question about that dawn it wrapped up after 8 00 oclock tonight. And let me tell you a lot of teary eyes, heavy hearts as you can imagine from those who knew officer wilson even those who did not but were certainly touched by what happened. Steady stream of people in and out of this West Philadelphia funeral home at 52nd and witness guy the end to emotional day of people paying respect and honor to Fallen Police officer Robert Wilson. He was killed in the line of duty last thursday sending the