Around Pandemic Response and recovery. She champions climate resistance, and improving transit, creating Creative Arts survival and quality of life issues. I am happy to introduce representative james. He was born in round rock. He was a formal Public School teacher. Her youngest member of the texas legislator. He was elected in 2018. He helped passed legislation to reform the state School Financial system. Next, i am happy to introduce representative aaron. She was elected in 2018, she represents county. She is a author, educator, conservationist. She fights for technicalities of community and, since government. Please welcome our panelists. The first question i gave a short bio. Please in your own words introduce yourselves to the audience. Hello, everyone. Vanessa fuentes. I was elected amid the pandemic, 2020. I have been in office for about a year and a half. It is interesting to learn Public Office and to have winter storm hit texas and deal with all of the aftermath of having a
Different weight funding is supported. Thank you all so much. I am happy to introduce on stage, councilmember, vanessa. She represents district to. She very recently took office in 2021. She fights for improved health around Pandemic Response and recovery. She champions climate resistance, and improving transit, creating Creative Arts survival and quality of life issues. I am happy to introduce representative james. He was born in round rock. He was a formal Public School teacher. Her youngest member of the texas legislator. He was elected in 2018. He helped passed legislation to reform the state School Financial system. Next, i am happy to introduce representative aaron. She was elected in 2018, she represents county. She is a author, educator, conservationist. She fights for technicalities of community and, since government. Please welcome our panelists. The first question i gave a short bio. Please in your own words introduce yourselves to the audience. Hello, everyone. Vanessa fuen
She represents district to. She very recently took office in 2021. She fights for improved health around Pandemic Response and recovery. She champions climate resistance, and improving transit, creating Creative Arts survival and quality of life issues. I am happy to introduce representative james. He was born in round rock. He was a formal Public School teacher. Her youngest member of the texas legislator. He was elected in 2018. He helped passed legislation to reform the state School Financial system. Next, i am happy to introduce representative aaron. She was elected in 2018, she represents county. She is a author, educator, conservationist. She fights for technicalities of community and, since government. Please welcome our panelists. The first question i gave a short bio. Please in your own words introduce yourselves to the audience. Hello, everyone. Vanessa fuentes. I was elected amid the pandemic, 2020. I have been in office for about a year and a half. It is interesting to lear
Vote vote vote for those that may not remember with both sides demo at the republicans were usually both in. Its hard to move people off of that. Insurrection of january 6 that situation thats been going on since 1887 shouldve been corrected and have not been but no one ever felt we had what we had and everyone stepped into play. By january the 19th my democratic colleagues were so frustrated that they force the boat on repealing the filibuster to allow that bill to pass with a simple majority among party lines. It appeared to many both inside and outside of washington, d. C. But the senate was fundamentally broken. Senator collins and i have worked together for a long time and we never gave up, we were not convinced it was broken and you just have to work a little bit harder. They call us the most delivered body. To deliberate means to talk. To converse the deliberate body is no longer the deliberate body and we were not going to let that happen to us. We asked our colleagues and frie
Office because americans will be watching to see if you follow through on that promise. I also would like to follow up on senator al frankens question, i think there was something there that did not quite get answered. As you know, congressman, the one goal of the Affordable Care act was to push the Healthcare Industry to provide Higher Quality care at lower costs. And under the aca, medicare was recently allowed to change the way that it pays hospitals for hip and Knee Replacements, to something called a bundle. That means medicare pays a set price for the care associated with hip and Knee Replacement and then the hospitals, not congress, will decide the most effective implant, reduce second surgery, better find infections being fought, how to better spend their money to deliver Better Service at higher cost. I supported this change because the Research Shows that it really means to get better care at lower prices, but i know that the policy is controversial because it affects how hos