Good morning. Welcome. Please be seated. We will begin by hearing argument in the two cases that are on that we will hear simultaneously, state of new york et al. Versus United States department of justice and make the road new york versus kuchali. May it please the cord, jerry sinzdak appearing on behalf of the United States. Good morning. Good morning. The District Courts injunctions are flawed in several respects and should be set aside. As a threshold matter plaintiffs have failed to assert recognizable injury and they seek to promote an interest that is diametrically opposed to the purpose of the public charge statute. It therefore lacks standing. On the merits as the District Court found im sorry, as the ninth circuit found the rule easily is a reasonable interpretation of the public charge provision. Congress made clear in 1996 that it sought to ensure that aliens admitted to the country do not rely on Public Benefits but didnt it do that by making them ineligible for the most p
Its still a hail mary pass to get this done, just the tax stuff. For that wait, the well to do are going to have to live with nothing, potentially, or worse, a hike, and yet the markets up. Its wild. Stuart still shaking the head. Neil i know its affecting your spending plans. Stuart i knew you would get to that. Neil thank god youre so cheap, otherwise this would have such an impact. Stuart it would have killed me. Neil thank you, my friend. It is amazing, stuart, that this market follows its own bullish trend and not being interrupted, even with the clear sign of no sign of progress on this health care rework or whatever theyre going to try to call it, because theyre going nowhere fast right now but trying, adam shapiro with the latest on capitol hill. Reporter hi, neil, where we stand right now is waiting for a vote on the rand paul amendment, a version of the 2015 repeal bill. Now this amendment would essentially be a repeal of the Affordable Care act. Obamacare. But with a twoyear
Chocolate chip cookies once for a study group. Her side of the story, from the day of those chocolate chip cookies, i was a goner. We started dating in the middle of that year and weve been together ever since, married 32 years this november. She is my Public Service hero. She has been a legal aid lawyer and a juvenile judge. And now she is secretary of education in virginia. She is a Public Servant and mother and sister and wife. She juggles all of those roles and makes it seem so easy. Thomas jeffersons daughter patsy, jefferson was virginias second governor. Patsy was the wife of a governor. My wife is the only person to have lived in the Governors Mansion as a child and then as an adult. One really special memory of me becoming governor in 2006 was at the end of the long day of being sworn in and inaugural events, we go back to the Governors Mansion and they say to me, welcome home, governor. And they say to my wife, welcome back home. She had told all the kids about the tricks the
Leave the chamber for any reason without risking control of the floor. When the senator started yesterday, he said he would speak in support of defunding obamacare, if you will, until he can no longer stand. This is not an official filibuster. Its more symbolic since he will not be able to prevent a cloture vote which harry reid scheduled for midday today. During his nearly 20 hours, senator cruz has read tweets, hes read dr. Sues ss green eggs and ham to his kids. Now, moments ago we were told this could come to a close shortly. You can watch it on our companion network on cspan2. We smoke with alexander bolton, congressional reporter, who writes for the hill newspaper earlier today. Well, sometime this afternoon theres going to be this vote to end debate on the motion to proceed and this is the first step to getting on the bill. Cloture will be invoked. It will end debate. It a motion to proceed itself, at that point and thats also expected to pass. The senate will then be on the bil
Toi think it is important remember there is no open enrollment for medicaid. We have i think had a very. Ich discussion here i think it cannot be understated whats an Important Role commitment at the state level to making this work is in terms of being able to move forward and get people connected to insurance. We have also seen from individuals here that we are really building on the experience of the chip program where we learn to do outreach to children and use perry is mechanism to reach people in the community. I think all activities are going to be local and really does depend on mountain on the groundwork. Important thing we have learned is also takes a Real Partnership between people working at the state level tom inside of State Government, outside of State Government and especially with providers and communitybased partners. This is a big effort going forward. Starts open enrollment but does not stop the effort to get many people the kind of coverage they need either through