Friday on cspan2 and cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house will be in order. For 40 years cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress. The white house. The supreme court. And Public Policy events from washington d. C. And around the country. You can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1978. Cspan is brought by the local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a hearing on Agriculture Research and the status of the implementation of the 2018 farm bill. We hear about relocating parts of the Agriculture Department to the kansas city region. This hearing was held by the Senate Agriculture committee. Good morning. I call this meeting to order. Over two years ago we kicked off the 2018 farm bill, and that whole process was by holding a hearing at Kansas State University of our Land Grant Institution. A few months later there was a hearing in this room. What we heard from the officials representatives fro
Priorities for the 2018 farm bill. The needs are certainly great. Every day our producers encounter extreme and unpredictable weather and pests to name a few. Researches and institutions tasked with these challenges are directed to do so with minimal federal resources and an aging infrastructure. Crafting the agriculture improvement act of and i along with members of this committee recognized that we had to continue to build on the strong history of Agriculture Research in the United States. With the enactment of the bill, the primary department of Agriculture Research education authorities were reauthorize z including the Agriculture Research and the National Institute of food and agriculture. Funds including the hatch act and the smith lever mccann tis sten nis and evans allen were extended and competitive Grant Programs were included to support Research Facilities and equipment improvements. Provisions were included to bring incompetent to 1890 and 1994 institutions. The farm and Ra
Resilient is going to be increasingly important because we are going to see more extreme weather events as the result of Climate Change. Deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms. Amy we will spend the hour with new orleans native actor Wendell Pierce, best known for his roles in the wire and treme. Monique harden and journalist. Ary rivlin. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Hundreds more people fleeing violence in syria, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, Subsaharan Africa and other regions have reportedly died en route to europe as the world grapples with whats being described the worst migration crisis since world war ii. As many as 200 people may have drowned when a boat headed to Southern Europe sank off the libyan coast thursday. Another boat with 50 people on board also reportedly capsized thursday. Swedish Officials Say they also found the bodies of more than 50 people who died from breat
Republicans call in at 202 7488001. Independent colors callin at 202 7488002. And a special line this morning for recent immigrants 202 7488003. You can always catch up with us on social media on twitter and on facebook. Good Tuesday Morning to you. The country waking up to a new head of the department of justice today. Dana been taken appointed by donald trump as the acting attorney general after sally gates ordered her staff to refuse to enforce the president s temporary ban on entry to the United States for citizens of the seven muslim majority countries. The Washington Post story said that the white house said that yates betrayed the department of justice. Dana boente said he would enforce the president s directive until he was replaced by senator Jeff Sessions. There is a markup for his nomination taking place this morning at 9 30. We will show that live on cspan3. We will be with you on washington journal until 10 00. Barack obama injected himself into the debate, doing so in the
Somehow not covered by the insurance. We want those folks to be covered. The Insurance Program was to cover the cost in the early years. We know there may have been pent up demand. Day, it isnd of the just to capitalize the business. Dr. Cohen i think it is to keep premiums stable for consumers. You thought earlier in the year that you would be able to move payments and you found out in october that you could not. What is the reason for that . Dr. Cohen it is the math formula. It is the way the data came in from the issuers. That is the way the math worked out. 12 ,re able to pay at which is the dollars coming in, dollars going out. That is the way we are moving forward for this program. We said that we would take from last years collections and pay back. Thank you. I yield back. I now recognize mr. Yarmouth. Thank you very much. Outelp the doctor off a little bit on the background of the coops. One of the things we faced when drafting legislation was that, in certain states, the avail