By your television provider. Now an update on cleanup efforts related to water contamination at u. S. Military bases. A task force was created in july last year to address the issue. Military representatives on the task force testify about cleanup efforts, coordination between various governmental agencies involved and research on a safe chemical replacement. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this committee of the readiness subcommittee to order. Ive got to do the boilerplate, so stand by. Ill do it as quickly as i possibly can. I would like to welcome the members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of identifying verification when joining the proceeding, establishing and maintaining a quorum participating in the proceeding and voting. Members participating remotely must continues to use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connec
Into removal little bit of the suspense about october, that on october 28 we learned that David Axelrod will be joining us. Most of you know, was the chief strategist during the Obama Campaign and the Senior Advisor to president obama, and we are very eager to hear what he has to say only a few days before the election. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome congresswoman karen bass. In the past few weeks, all of america for the first time learned quite a bit about karen bass. But we in los angeles have known what a gem she is for years. As a member of the california assembly, her colleagues elected her speaker of the assembly at a particularly critical time, and her depth ofime, leadership was essential in rescuing californias economy from the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression at least until now. In congress, she quickly gained the respect of her colleagues due to her judgment and temperament, and just plain hard work, and her legislative skill. Ime of the legislative s
Source at i. C. E. I am told agents have more leeway to operate under Trump Administration than under obama, agents are going after undocumented immigrants who committed crimes and have no desire to separate mothers from their children. Coming up at 6 00, the efforts that one local organization is taking to make sure that immigrants in the area are prepared for anything that comes their way. Live in annandale, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you very much. Meanwhile today on a related noted, the Associated Press learned about a proposal. This was to use up to 100,000 National Guard troops to round up socalled unauthorized immigrants in 11 different states. Now the white house quickly dismissed this report. Said it was 100 false. The department of Homeland Security says it was an idea never seriously considered. Larry . Larry well, President Trump toured the boeing plant in South Carolina this afternoon before heading to florida for the weekend. But today a lot of people were sti
Facebook. Com cspan. Here are a couple of the front pages this morning. Heres the Washington Times. Conservatives call for delay of repeal vote on obamacare. The New York Times says republicans face dilemma on health bill. And here is the Washington Post, g. O. P. Holdouts leaves Health Care Bills vote in doubt. Jennifer haberkorn with politico, where do we stand with the Health Care Bill . Guest i think your definition of uncertainty is the right way to put it. Republican leaders still are planning to put the vote today. They never set a time for this bill except to they told members yerl this week it would be a late night. But as of right now they dont have the 215 votes that they would need. Paul ight House Speaker ryan met with the tuesday group, a group of moderates, and members left that meeting and still werent really excited about what was in this bill. One of the leaders of that group, charlie dent from pennsylvania, put out a statement late last night saying he would be a no
These options today. Thank you, i look forward to your questions. Let me start was in questions. Many factors contributed to the failure of the coops. Lower than higher expected enrollments, restrictions on investors, risk adjustment formulas, lots of those. Let me start off. What are the top reasons the coop failed in your state . Thank you for your question. Our coop had challenges from inception, in that as the commissioner mentioned, going into a state without Provider Networks cause the company to have to lease those. There were a ministry of cost that were new to the startup, that any startup would have. But in 2014, we had disastrously low enrollment. Truly come at most, 1000 people signed up for the coop plan. Mostly because the rates were somewhat higher than the leader and the wellestablished companies in tennessee. Overcoming those challenges became extremely difficult. And is why we saw significant rate increases for 2015 and beyond because of the enrollees across the marke