Will open up access to up to 50000000000 dollars of very importantly for important and a large amount of money for states and territories or localities in our shared fight against this disease in furtherance of the order emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately youre going to be hearing from some of the Largest Companies and greatest retailers and medical companies in the world as to anyway. Behind me and that side of me im also asking every hospital in this country to activated some urgency prepared as planned so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged in new york and various other places are also very sing gauge i just spoke with Governor Cuomo we had a very good conversation and were working very strongly with many states including new york. The merging see orders im issuing today will also confer broad new authority to the secretary of health and Human Services the secretary of h. H. S. Will be able
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much , everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden. Appreciate everybody being here. I would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus. We have been working very hard on this, we have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, it is pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as a hot right now. And we closed that border while ago, so i was lucky, through talent or luck, call it whatever you want, but through a very collective action and shared sacrifice, national determination, we will overcome the threat of the virus. I announced wednesday night, following the advice of our medical
Democracy. When we can look our brothers and sisters in the eyes, black, latino, young, women, so sameday registration, getting out there and thinking about what were passing legislatively , racial inequality. We must be on the forefront. Really being there on the ground. The black lives Matter Movement is a movement afoot, a Climate Change movement afoot. They can register. They are registering people to vote, but we have to commit to them that we are going to deliver for them, not just take that vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] Robert Weissman has led Public Citizen since 2009. As well as anate expert on a wide variety of issues. The floor is yours. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thank you to the committee for your leadership, and thank you for your stamina. Solve itsll not greatest problems if we dont rescue our democracy, severe inequality, catastrophic climate get there ifll not we dont deal with the democratic def
Madam chair and fellow delegates, we ask that the 2016 Democratic National convention approve a resolution conveying profound appreciation to all the individuals and organizations that have helped to make the 47th quadrennial convention a success. [cheers and applause] our resolution thanks the city of philadelphia, its mayor, former mayor, along with his residents, acknowledges the support of pennsylvania s governor [cheers and applause] our gratitude to all the Law Enforcement officers, firefighters, and first responders. [cheers and applause] we thank you for your 2016ce, recognize the philadelphia Host Committee, and applaud the tireless work of the thousands of convention volunteers. The convention approve this honorary resolution. [applause] delegates, you have heard the motion to approve the honorary resolution. Thanking those individuals and organizations that have helped to make our convention such a success. Is there a second . All in favor of the honorary resolution, please
With the expansion of medicaid. In addition, it dumps 15 million to 18 million lowincome americans into a Medicaid Program that none of us would want to be a part of because 50 of the doctors wont see new patients. So its like giving someone a ticket to a bus line when the bus only runs half the time. Thats what i said 5 1 2 years ago. Medicaid had already always been one of the federal governments biggest unfunded federal mandates. And expanding that mandate on states would only wreak more havoc on state budgets that especially at that time during the height of the recession were already struggling. Our former tennessee governor, bill bradison, a democrat, said the proposed Medicaid Expansion under obamacare would represen represent quote the mother of all unfunded mandates. When i was governor of tennessee in the 1980s, medicaid made up only about 8 of tennessees state budget. By last year, it was 30. 6 . States paying more and more to expand medicaid means less to spend on other pri