Governors of massachusetts, montana, tennessee, colorado, and utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreciate it very much. We look forward to hearing from you. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Well then introduce the five governors, after they almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . After that testimony, the senators will each have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar
This is an important part of what is going on and theres allies and partners will be key if we are able to move ahead on this regional process to facilitate that and be supportive of it so Coalition Management as you might call it, Partner Management is an important line of action Going Forward. As rick said if you try to break it down into actual lines of action a lot of it is outside afghanistan but working in close coordination with what you are doing, this is a big set of diplomatic tasks and you can look at all the politics and diplomatic maneuvering in pakistan to get a useful dialogue going. There are other tools in this process but the key is the dialogue bringing us closer together for an important objective. I do think as rick was saying there was a lot of definition that still needs to go on in where we want to be. The president s policy talks about the India Pakistan rivalry and a shame this has to be seen in the context. There is a longstanding set of difficult issues. It
A while. We had initially heard that both directions of 880 but it looks like one direction. Nothing is getting through. We will stay on top of the story and bring you more information as soon as it comes into the newsroom. Meanwhile we are keeping an eye on nate. It is now a tropical storm. Nate made landfall twice overnight. The fbi is continuing its investigation into the deadliest shooting in history. Fleet week activities continue and crescendo today. 9 am the ships will open again for two hours tours. You can see the blue angels for the last time today. It was gorgeous yesterday. Thank you rosemary can you give us a pretty forecast . I can do it again although it is going to get a bit breezy. The wind is expected to move into the bay area today. Here is a look at the bay area. There is a little bit of haze. Mostly clear skies in store today. Here is a view at the temperatures. 54 in santa rosa. 49 in oakland. Livermore 51. We have a westerly breeze. Three Miles Per Hour in napa.
Thaw to cspan for filming it. This is a wonderful opportunity to get the story of buffalo bill and the west out to the broad american audience, that is the goal of all of us in this business, to try and inspire others of the story of the American West and show why we love it so much. This morning, we have three folks who are going to inspire you, and make you fall even more in love with the American West. Were going to have them speak in alphabetical order. I learned to do that back in the fifth grade. Thats the way were going to do this. Ill introduce them individually as they appear. First, we have jeff broom. Who ive known for many years. Jeff is very active in not only the academic world but world of Popular History and writes magazine articles for true west and wild west magazine and belongs to many western organizations. He got his ph. D. At the university of colorado of boulder. Colorado seems to be a theme here today because of where people are buried even though they didnt wan
Thanks to the Buffalo Bill Center of the west for holding this symposium. Thaw to cspan for filming it. This is a wonderful opportunity to get the story of buffalo bill and the west out to the broad american audience, that is the goal of all of us in this business, to try and inspire others of the story of the American West and show why we love it so much. This morning, we have three folks who are going to inspire you, and make you fall even more in love with the American West. Were going to have them speak in alphabetical order. I learned to do that back in the fifth grade. Thats the way were going to do this. Ill introduce them individually as they appear. First, we have jeff broom. Who ive known for many years. Jeff is very active in not only the academic world but world of Popular History and writes magazine articles for true west and wild west magazine and belongs to many western organizations. He got his ph. D. At the university of colorado of boulder. Colorado seems to be a them