Many things that are important for the health of the American People. Not only the Community Health centers, which expire in a few weeks, not only the medicare extenders, which includes the therapy caps for seniors in medicare, the Home Visiting program for seniors, the special Diabetes Program, the Teaching Health sent, the National Health centers, the National Health service corps, all of these things. Also the safety net hospitals. As of january 1, the dish or safety net programs for all these hospitals around the country that have to take care of so many poor people, that funding has expired and theyve actually had to cut the funding. So how do you stand up here and say to me and the American People that somehow you care about these things, you want to deal with these things . You are not dealing with these things. What are you doing here again . Once again youre bringing a bill to the floor that has all kinds of repeal of taxes. I dont even want to get into the deal. These are the
The recently passed tax reform bill and new provisions affecting connecticut taxpayers. This is two hours. Is two hours. You ready . To try that again, that afternoon. Always a pleasure and a delight forums,educational particularly with my two favorite congressman, who i will introduce to you. Not that they really need an introduction. Congressman larson represents connecticuts First District, and is in his tent term. He is on the house ways and , and on aittee committee for Social Security is the ranking member. As as proven himself staunch advocate for working andlies, manufacturing Common Sense Solutions for problems that we face every day. And of course, congressman joe courtney, reduced to be our regional on our regional inisory council, was elected 2006 to represent the second district. He serves on the armed forces and education and workforce committees, and cochairs the congressional shipbuilding caucus and is a member of the , serves onommittee the Pensions Committee as well a
That briefing earlier today. Before the passage in the ways and Means Committee this afternoon of the republican tax reform bill to mark the markup session wrapping up today, the vote was 416. Heres some of the Committee Debate ahead of the final passage vote this afternoon. Mr. Brady are there further questions . Mr. Neal will there be sufficient time to digest the document, understanding were going to the floor quickly to vote for the last series of the week and because of time constraints the obvious view we hold on this side that we want time, to be able to take a look at whats in the managers amendment based on whats happened as of monday evening and the short notice we received on thursday, it appears likely that we will at this schedule and pace have very little time to see the managers amendment and then to professionally react to it. I suppose the second question, based upon what weve seen this morning with the delay is, has there been a possibility for republicans to actually
The committee will come to order. Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. Might i request information as to how we intend to proceed today when we will see the managers amendment and will it be sufficient time to understand the document understanding that we are going to the floor pretty quickly and because time constraints and the view that we hold that we want time to be able to take a look at whats in the managers amendment based on whats happened as a monday evening and short notice that we received on thursday. It appears likely that we will at this schedule and pace have very little time to see the managers amendment and to react to it. I suppose the second question based upon what we have seen this morning with the delay is has there been a possibility for republicans to have seen and read and devoured the managers amendment . So as we laid out at the beginning of the week, we are convening today to finish the democratic amendments. You indicated there were five or six more you wanted to have u
Web. That was referring to Chuck Schumer. We bring you all of this live as it begins. U. S. Trading session, julie hyman is here with the latest. Julie the rally continuing into its second day. We tend to see a flip on the first week of trading on the new year from what we saw last week of the last year. We could see an up week this week of the last if the last five years are any indication. Rally, buta runaway we are seeing gains. I want to talk about auto sales this morning for the united states. They were largely better than estimated. Gm sales, more than double what analysts are estimating. For reporting an unexpected gain in sales of 10 . Fiat, although its sales fell 10 , analysts were predicting a steeper decline. All of them better. Fiat still trading lower. Gm and ford a gain of more than 3 here. It looks like we could surpass last years hurt for annual sales, up 17. 5 million vehicles. Been an interesting phenomenon of People Holding on to their cars longer. This is a monthly