Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the future. And also to prevent insurers from leaving the markets where those 18 million americans buy insurance. Last week, between the meetings held before our hearings, such
This hourplus debate before members voted to pass the bill this morning. Se does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition . Mr. Labrador mr. Speaker, i all up the bill h. R. 3697, the criminal alien gang member removal act and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3697, a bill to amend the immigration and nationality act with respect to aliens associated with criminal gangs, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 513, the amendment printed in house report 115307 is adopted and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. The gentleman from idaho, mr. Labrador, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lofgren, each will control 30 minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from idaho. Mr. Labrador mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials to h. R. 3697
Hours. And now for us to declare a recess of the committee at any time, and we will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chairman for inclusion into the record. This hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north kr north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine draft legislation to impose secondary sanctions on foreign banks whose business supports the north korean regime whether directly or indirectly. By encompassing virtually all of north kr north koreas economic activity, these measures would are represent the toughest financial sanctions yet directed at pyongya pyongyang. This the means going after cole, petroleum, textiles and minerals as well as north korean laborers abroad. In addition, the bill would incentivize greater compliance with the u. N. Sanctions by leveraging the vote at the International Financial institutions where certain countries with the lax e
Cutler, u. S. Trade representative during the obama administration. This was hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies examining challenges and opportunities under the u. S. south korean alliance. Good afternoon. We would like to begin session three. Im the moderator of the session. My name is taeho bark. Professor emeritus. I just retired at the end of last month, so i call myself professor emeritus. Seoul national university, and i was the former trade minister of korea. Let me first join our creative speakers in thanking the csis and the Korea Foundation for organizing such a timely conference as one we have today. Since our topic this afternoon is about future state of the current fda, let me briefly introduce the recent development to help the audience better understand the situation. As you know, it started its implementation on march 15th of 2012. Which is about five and a half years ago. The chorus fda as far as i understand seems to be working in the right d
Prayers go to these folks in houston for hurricane army. Im sure you will comment about some of that later on, rob. We are going to talk about the , Monetary Policy, lets start off with u. S. Economy. Where do we stand right now, what is the outlook for the next three to five years . Was 1. 2 , Second Quarter was about 2 . Our own forecast was for the year 2017, it should grow not greately 2. 25 , by historical standards, but certainly sufficient in our view to further take strikeout of the labor market, drive down the Unemployment Rate lightly, and other measures of employment slack. We can talk about a number of reasons why gdp growth is more sluggish now than it was 10 years ago, 15 years ago. The number one reason is aging demographics in the United States. Biggest headwind for Economic Growth in this country is the fact that our population is aging, and workers are aging out of the workforce. A lot has been made to the fact that Labor Participation rate in 20 2007 was about 66 , t