In. Ks for taking us [laughter] sen. Harris at the last minute as you all know. Because you are here and you shifted the plan and you came here. I want to thank you on a rainy afternoon for being here. Very touched, so thank you. I am Kamala Harris, i am running for president of the United States. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris and so i wanted to share with you a couple of my thoughts and i am forward to taking questions. As you probably heard me say before, i fully intend to win this election. I really do. Part of the measure of our success is going to be at the end of this process that we are relevant. And in order to ensure that, it is important to me that i and we listen as much as i talk, especially at this stage of the campaign, so i am here to listen as much as i am to talk but i will share with you a couple of thoughts. Lets get a big shout out for naral. Yay. [cheers and applause] sen. Harris there we are. So i thank you for cohosting this meet and greet and i want to thank
Average lay person . Its important to read it because we see almost everyday issues of massive constitutional importance in the headline news, the presidency and congress. We have calls for concern over the constitution. As an educator i thought it was important to produce a book accessible by regular people to educate how the constitution functions as well as their constitutional right and get on that bike and ride it themselves, make their own decisions how things are going on in this country. Thats the why part. Many constitutional scholars including myself are worried about the democracy and public and whether it can sustain the body blows sustained by the separation of powers right now. If people care about having their individual liberties Going Forward and educating themselves for the sake of their children and grandchildren, what to do at this moment, if anything, make your own decision, thats the why part. You write today, the constitution is at risk of becoming sort of an ant
Were getting this going after votes. The house subcommittee will come to order. Brief Opening Statements and then two panels. Welcome all of you for coming. This is the Third Session of congress in which i have introduced legislation to ban the practice of surprise billing. Todays bipartisan hearing represents an initial effort by this committee to finally offer some relief to patients whove been bearing the brunt of a dispute between their insurers and some of their Health Care Providers. For patients, you can take all the right steps in attempting to see that your care network is covered but you may still face big bills. One in seven americans have received a surprise bill as part of receiving care at a hospital that is actually within their Insurance Network. The problem in san antonio, one of the communities that i represent, has been so extensive that jay avola has initiated an entire Television Series called show me your bill. And i think a quick video clip from that adequately d
They will most likely still lose i polling is any indication, we dont know. They could lose by a historic margin to a front runner, who, lets be, clear has spent more time in court attending His Civil Fraud Trial this week than he has in the state of iowa. Even if now it feels inevitable weve come to this, it was not inevitable. It really wasnt. There was a time in winter 2020, one after january 6th, when donald trump was being impeached for inciting the capitol insurrection, his Approval Rating hit an alltime. Low it looked like very well be sent to do a period of political exile. Then he came back, the 2022 midterms, the elections worked out poorly for most trump endorsed candidates. He backed losers in a ton of winnable races and there seemed to be a daunting wherein us in the Republican Party that he was politically toxic. In 2024 could be a wide open race for republicans. All those folks gotta because if i was beautiful. Not now. Trump is polling at 54 , or 30 points ahead of hale
Atlantic council for a Panel Discussion on u. S. Nuclear strategy and the challenges posed by china and russia. Good afternoon and welcome to the Atlantic Council for todays event. Introducing the strategic investment Posture Commission report. Im Vice President at the Atlantic Council and senior president of the center for strategy and security. This event comes at a time of significant deterioration in the International Security environment. For decades, russia was the only nuclear peer competitor to the United States, but in recent years, china has launched a rapid and farreaching Nuclear Buildup and aims to have 1500 Nuclear Weapons by 2035. This means for the first time in its history, the United States will need to contend with two nuclear peer competitors at the same time. To address this unprecedented challenge, congress established the strategic Posture Commission in the 2022 National Defense authorization act. Congress charged the commission to conduct a review of the strateg