Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, after seven years we have heard the stories from our constituents, from our patients, from our friends, from our families who have suffered under the Affordable Care act. Today, well have a chance to vote on a plan that will rescue and revitalize the market and lower costs and increase flexibility for patients to choose and keep a Health Insurance plan that works for them and their families. However, before we can do that, we have to pass a bill that will insure that members of congress and their staffs are treated the same way as the rest of america. So lets be clear. We firmly believe that members of congress should live by the same rules as everyone else. Period. The bill were considering now will make a simple technical correction to insure that the American Health care act and its amendments apply equally to everyone when signed into law. Over the last several months we have worked thoughtfully and thoroughly with our colleagues in the senate to achieve ou
Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, after seven years we have heard the stories from our constituents, from our patients, from our friends, from our families who have suffered under the Affordable Care act. Today, well have a chance to vote on a plan that will rescue and revitalize the market and lower costs and increase flexibility for patients to choose and keep a Health Insurance plan that works for them and their families. However, before we can do that, we have to pass a bill that will insure that members of congress and their staffs are treated the same way as the rest of america. So lets be clear. We firmly believe that members of congress should live by the same rules as everyone else. Period. The bill were considering now will make a simple technical correction to insure that the American Health care act and its amendments apply equally to everyone when signed into law. Over the last several months we have worked thoughtfully and thoroughly with our colleagues in the senate to achieve ou
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This is the third point of significance of collaboration in order to get this done. And its not even the subject of this hearing. And im wondering if you could just spend less than a minute talking about where you are and where you think that we are headed. I will be brief. Thank you for the kind words. Theres essentially two problems. And one is that we need relief from liability with the clean water act and we are making progress and then second of all we need more funding to clean that up. Thank you. I am from colorado. I am on the western end of the planes. The smoke is building and we know that we have a problem. All right, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this hearing. It is good to hear from stakeholders on this issue and its a really important issue which deals with budgetary impacts on threats to the National Resources on federal and state and private land. So i am pleased to have these wildlife communities who recognize the need for change in our current policies. And i th
The only thing that the jury tells the judge is, we recommend life death by a vote of x versus y. Right, but they cant recommend death unless they find the aggravator, right . Well, no. No. As a matter of state law, thats not correct. They cant recommend death unless seven of them each believe that some aggravator is satisfied. All right. But the Florida Supreme Court and this is a this is another ring problem here. The Florida Supreme Court has recognized that where two aggravators are presented, it is impossible to know even if a simple majority agreed on a single aggravator. Well, thats a common feature, though, of jury deliberations. An aggravator is whether the murder is particularly heinous and it can be for for a number of factors. One, the victim is a juvenile, so maybe three jurors find that. Or an officer was also killed, or it was in the commission in the course of another felony. In a typical case, a finding that the murder was heinous, you have no idea whether the juror ju