We are holding our first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to into intervals Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in individual Insurance Market. Manyve an idea of how people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which is about a quarter of the senate on this committee to come to a coffee with commissioners that we have completed for an hour and 31 senators were there. That is a remarkable level of we will have an Opening Statement and we will introduce the five witnesses. Ask questionskend in fiveminute rounds. This committee includes 23 United States senators. It includes senators with the whitest diversions of abuse. It has a republican majority of only one. Working together during the last two years, we have been able to agree on big steps, big issues, about which we have
Of state and Homeland Security share their thoughts for strengthening the program. Currently individuals from socalled friendly countries are not required to have a visa when entering the u. S. For stays of 90 days or less. This is about an hour and a half. Call to order here. I want to thank the witnesses. There may have been a little miscommunication in terms of the timing. I thought we wanted to start this at 11 00, we had the vote at 10 45. Thats why our attendance is not as strong. Also appreciate we were able to set this up as a roundtable. I want to have Administration People and people from the outside sitting together so we can have a good discussion. This will be pretty much a free flowing discussion which is also nice. Rather than have it structured and seven minutes per senator. When were on a topic ill encourage my colleague to jump in. So its not disjointed. We have four witnesses here, miss kelly parisi. Shes the deputy secretary of the office in the office of policy. Sh
Not required to have a visa when entering the u. S. For stays of 90 days or less. This is about an hour and a half. Call to order here. I want to thank the witnesses. There may have been a little miscommunication in terms of the timing. I thought we wanted to start this at 11 00, we had the vote at 10 45. Thats why our attendance is not as strong. Also appreciate we were able to set this up as a roundtable. I want to have Administration People and people from the outside sitting together so we can have a good discussion. This will be pretty much a free flowing discussion which is also nice. Rather than have it structured and seven minutes per senator. When were on a topic ill encourage my colleague to jump in. So its not disjointed. We have four witnesses here, miss kelly parisi. Shes the deputy secretary of the office in the office of policy. She can speak to the enhancements that dhs is thinking of strengthening the currents visa program. Mr. John wagner is here for customers and Bor
October the congressman needed to extend the debt limit. We kept him closely informed literally every week. And there was not a negotiation over the debt limit. It was a question of congress figuring out how it was going to deal with the thing they had to deal with. That is protecting the full faith and credit of the United States. An budget conference is intrinsically congressional process. One of the few things that does not come to the president to be signed. The house and the senate agree on a resolution and it sets their government on how they will handle operations in budgetary matters. Budget Experts Consult with people on the hill and answer questions. It is intrinsically a congressional process. Clear. W is quite the president has budget is something he sticks by. It represents what he offered to the speaker at the end of last year. It is i think the right solution. We have to see where this conference goes. Lex let me ask you one specific issue on appropriations. Max baucus,
Hell be remembered for chaos and misery. He was dissnanengaged from h attempt to find this solution. He was present when the bomb went off. Right now, there is no indication that any other persons were involved. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is monday, december 28th, 6 00 here in new york. Jim sciutto joins me. Great to have you. Great to be here. So much news this week. A little bit of happy news going into the new year. Often holidays are slow news weeks. Not now. Lets get right to it. Breaking overnight, President Trump signing into law a 900 sorry, 900 billion relief package and Government Spending bill. But by signing it after 7 00 p. M. , the president averted a government shutdown, but his late action will punish millions of unemployed americans by letting their benefits will lapse for days. President trump resisted signing the bill, then spent the