Students to produce documentaries telling us what is the most urgent issue for the new president and congress to address in 2017. Students competed for the chance to win one of 150 prizes totaling 100,000 in prize money. We received almost 3,000 entries from 46 states, plus the district of columbia, england, germany, singapore, and taiwan. Now were happy to announce our first place winners. In the middle school category, the first Prize Winners are 8th graders molly doherty, camden lewis and tony decker for their documentary, u. S. Gun violence, a complicated puzzle. The first place winner is 11th grader Matthew Gannon from washington d. C. For his documentary titled invisible which deals with homelessness. Matthew also won this years fan favorite contest and will receive an additional 500. In the High School Central category, our winner is 12th grader jared clark from Royal Oak High School in royal oak, michigan for his piece, enough is enough, dealing with pharmaceutical pricing. Our
Friday a hearing on marine Corps Readiness and modernization efforts. A House Armed Services subcommittee hears from the deputy commandant Lieutenant General gary thomas. Live 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2. And later representatives from indigenous and tribal groups gather in washington, d. C. For a rally in response to the Dakota Access pipeline and the excel peepline project. Thats live also on cspan 2. Your documentary has been selected as this years grand prize winner. Oh seventh and ninth grade sisters ava and mia lazar of blacksburg, virginia, this years grand Prize Winners of our student cam video documentary competition. Their winning documentary is titled the tempest tossed, which explores refugees and immigration policy. A refugee is defined as someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence and cannot return safely. With so many people fleeing their countries, desperate, without a home, politicians and institutes today are argui
The idea of the government requiring, most americans, rather, to have insurance or pay a fine. Thats why they put that into the proposal. To be clear, it is repealing the insurance penalty, but not the insurance mandate. Why . Right. Well, as we know, the first part of this effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act has to go through a budget process called reconciliation. Theyre doing this because that allows the bill to pass with 51 votes in the senate, not 60. The bill could not be filibustered. And so why they focus on the penalty is under budget reconciliation, everything has to have an impact on the budget. So the penalty creates a fee, there is a revenue impact and so thats why they have focused on the financial penalty itself. And this Republican House plan also includes tax credits. So how do they work . What they would do is they differ from the tax credits and the aca. The difference is that under the House Republican plan, they would be geared more to age and not
[inaudible conversations] one [inaudible conversations] mr. Thune good morning. Welcome to todays hearing on oversight of the fcc. I should point out since this committee has jurisdiction over sports. Last night, the South Dakota State University jackrabbits plunged their ticket to the tournament by winning the Summer League tournament. I am getting gaveled down by someone. [laughter] last time we met, a lot exchanged since then with the new fcc chairman with several members of this committee. This is the first sec oversight hearing is that i hope to see changes how the commission operates. I urge them to treat each other fairly, to be willing to ask congress for guidance whenever possible. While still in the early days, they seem to heed the advice that actions under chairman pai to improve the of process of transparency. And those that seem to amass power the chairman office that they could instead empower the public and other commissioners. Chairman pai says purging the divide to gu
59 oppose them. Californians also think caltrans should be more efficient. Only 23 of californians think caltrans needs more money. 61 believe caltrans should make better use of the money it already has. And we asked Governor Brown about these poll results. His response . Trust me. This is the heavy lift. I know that. Im telling you, im the governor for 14 years, my father was governor for eight years, i know what im talking about. You have to pay for it with new money. Voters arent buying what Governor Brown is selling. Reporter the legislative director at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association really, its a question of priorities. General funds spending in california has increased by 36 billion over the last 6 years. And yet not one penny has gone towards transportation funding. Reporter now, we havent seen the final language of the proposal but theres probably a restriction that this new tax money would have to go to transportation projects although that could include public transit