Nonstop for the past two hours, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius answering tough questions on capitol hill. She is explaining the problems with the troubled Affordable Care website. So let me say directly to these americans. You deserve better. I apologize. I am accountable to you for fixing these problems, and i am committed to earning your confidence back by fixing the site. Randall pinkston is live on capitol hill. Randall, see beal us has apologized but has she said how they are going to fix the problem . Republicans especially are pressing sebelius on the website, and they didnt support the act in the first place, and they are pointing out the fact that president obama promised people that they could keep the insurance that they had if they wanted to, but Many Americans are reporting that that is not happening. Here is an example of the exchange. What do you say to mark and lucinda in my district who had a plan, liked it, it was affordable, but it is being ter
Way back to france. Also. Im in the ecuadorian amazon where the government has gisent the green light to drill for oil. The u. N. Says the long drawn out battle between Government Troops and rebels in the democratic republic of congo is drawing to a close. Congolese soldiers are launching an assault to retake the last town held by armed fighters known as the m23 rebels. A bit of background. The m23 are a group of tute si fighters who defected from the government. The conflicts forced 800,000 people to flee their homes. The push by the congolese troops has been largely successful because they are backed by a u. N. Prevention brigade sent to crush the rebels. The m23 fighters abandoned their military positions in the east and are confined to a small down close to the ugandan border called rumanagabo. They have been fighting hard for days. They are getting ready to fight again. They are congolese Government Troops and have taken a string of towns back from the m23 rebels. The fighters hol
Think that kids see that and they think that what we do is put up banners that do not sometimes reflect the way we treat each other underneath those banners. They are so conditioned you are just giving mae a slogan. So i think we naed to own the way in which respect is used in our cull taur and to say to young people, this is what it looks like it me when we walk down the hall and what it looks like to me as a teacher when i walk down the hall and be respectful, if i hear bad language, what a teacher will say if i had to stop at every fu in the hallway i wouldnt be able to teach. I would spend my entire day doing that. What i would like to think about is those are the small moments that really speak to the culture of the school and so you cant stop every you are a faggot walking down the hallway, you cant stop every retarded. Actually you can and you can do it in a way that really speaks to the dignity of all the children. As a teacher i think sometimes we have forgotten when you are a
Insurance through the coverage california, the exchange for the first time and these patients will be eligible for that. And of course, that is fantastic. And for these patients but as we go forward in the implementation and we know that it is going to be a challenge to sort of implement the new forms of coverage under the Affordable Care act and so i am grateful to the task force and for taking the time to develop, a report and to issue recommendations so as to insure the continuity of the care and maintenance of the high quality comprehensive services for these patients. And first we will hear from two task force members, and courtney, pearson, and the San Francisco aids foundation, and which does amazing work in San Francisco and hofmann from the Mission Neighborhood Health Center and so, we will turn it over to you. Great. So thank you, so much supervisor campos and weiner and mar, and we appreciate the opportunity to present on what took about a year, for us to pull together this
Consolation. Bless as well the men and women who serve our nation this day in our armed forces. May they and their families be assured of our deep gratitude for their service. O god, you have blessed every person with the full measure of your grace and given us the bounty of your spirit, lead us this day in the ways of peace. We pray for peace in our hearts , that we will be freed from selfishness or envy, that we will replace any enmity with goodwill and hatred with charity so we might lead lives of generosity and kindness. May there be peace in our world among all nations. May each nation sense its shared destiny and in a new spirit of hope and trust, one with another. Help us to be men and women without excuse and may all that we do this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The p