Well kpix 5s andrea borba breaks it down for us tonight. Two votes, two different outcomes today for the Republican Health care plan, but the political maneuvering on the bill has just begun. Reporter with Vice President pence casting the tie breaking vote, the motion to open debate on the Gop Health Care plan moved forward in the senate by just a 51 50 margin. Arizona senator john mccain returned for the vote. I will not vote for this bill as it is today. Its a shell of a bill right now. Reporter hours later though, mccain did in fact vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. In all nine republicans voted against repealing and replacing the aca, falling short of the necessary threshold of 57 votes, including vocal opposition from maines senator susan collins. Many of us made commitments to our constituents to provide relief for this failed left wing experiment, and now we have a real opportunity to keep those commitments by voting to begin debate and ultimately to send smart
Well kpix 5s andrea borba breaks it down for us tonight. Two votes, two different outcomes today for the Republican Health care plan, but the political maneuvering on the bill has just begun. Reporter with Vice President pence casting the tie breaking vote, the motion to open debate on the Gop Health Care plan moved forward in the senate by just a 51 50 margin. Arizona senator john mccain returned for the vote. I will not vote for this bill as it is today. Its a shell of a bill right now. Reporter hours later though, mccain did in fact vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. In all nine republicans voted against repealing and replacing the aca, falling short of the necessary threshold of 57 votes, including vocal opposition from maines senator susan collins. Many of us made commitments to our constituents to provide relief for this failed left wing experiment, and now we have a real opportunity to keep those commitments by voting to begin debate and ultimately to send smart
He served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins childrens center. A position he assumed when he was just 33 years old. He became the youngest Major Division directors in the Hospital Division director in the hospitals history. He performed the first ever successful separation of twins conjoined at the back of the head. He has received dozens of honors and awards and recognitions for his achievements including the president ial medal of freedom which is the nationscivilian honor. Nations highest civilian honor. ,e has written several books and he has been named among americas best leaders in 2008. Dr. Carson and his wife cofounded the Scholarship Fund which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academics and two minutes area in accompaniments. And humanitarian accomplishments. The fund has recognized more than 7300 scholars and awarded more than 7. 3 million in scholarships. He and his wife are the proud parents of three adult sons and three gra
[applause] [cheers] host this year, dr. Ben carson was sworn in as the 17th secretary of the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Born in detroit to a single mother with a third grade education that worked multiple jobs to support the family, secretary carson was raised to love reading and education. He graduated from Yale University and earned his diploma from the university of ichigan medical school. He has served as director of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins childrens center, a position he assumed when he was just 33 years old, becoming the youngest Major Division director in the hospitals history. But dr. Carson is no stranger to making history. In 1987, he successfully performed the first ever separation of twins conjoined at the back of the head. Dr. Carson has received dozens of honors and awards in recognition of his achievements, including the president ial medal of freedom, the nations highest civilian honor. He is also the recipient of the highest honor best
I want to thank you and kathy for sponsoring this program and for organizing it. I am very pleased to be here, so good morning to all of you. I would like to talk a little bit about the genesis of the high risk list, and efforts associated with helping the agencies navigate their way off the list. When i was at my confirmation hearing, and Congress Asked me what some of my Top Priorities were, in addition to trying to get the federal government on a path, itainable fiscal mention the high risk list. It was not only to identify areas of high risk, but the help agencies appropriately giving our agencies get off the list. That is the way we view success at gao, is helping the government operate more effectively by solving these highrisk problems. The High Risk Program had its 1980s in the late some scandals that have occurred in the federal government. Congress became concerned that these major breakdowns occurred in their view with little warning. Ao to come up g ofh a list of programs h