Transcripts For CSPAN Morning Hour 20131028 : comparemela.co

Transcripts For CSPAN Morning Hour 20131028

Members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leader party for morning hours, since there are n none prursuent to clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the the house will return at 2 00 eastern to begin legislative business. Members will pick up a number of suspension feels bills. Later, lawmakers will consider legislation disapproving of the recent increase in the debt ceiling. Live coverage of the house at 2 00 eastern here on cspan. A lot of pictures this afternoon from fbi headquarters where president obama will deliver remarks at the installation ceremony for james call me, sworn in as fbi director last month, replacing robert moeller. A former Deputy Attorney general during the george w. Bush administration. Live coverage when it gets underway here on cspan. While we wait for that to get underway, a discussion from this mornings washington journal. Joining us to continue on a discussion about the health care law. Joining us for the discussion, Senior Health correspondent. Welcome. What is the latest . But unfortunately the sub contractors that runs the data hub had an outage last night. It was still down this morning. I checked before i arrived. Yet another woe in the long saga that has dogged the website. There was a congressional hearing last night. They recommended more testing earlier. Talked about how federal officials decided to turn off of browsing function that required a double make accounts. That created a backlog. A lot of attention and focus on the website. Www. Cspan. Orghost you get the homepage and then i was able to set up an account. I will give that a try. Got a message the website was down. The smiling girl on the website, a story about that now missing as well. She is gone and have replaced it with more information about what to do if you cannot get on the website. You can call the 1800 number. Even if you are on the story there are stories about how people are having a problem getting on the website. Trying to make it clear there are many ways to apply. Making it clear they are working hard to fix this. They made the changes in leadership about who is taking control. What is his role in talk about what is going on . He has been brought in as a troubleshooter. Well known to the white house. The first chief performance officer at the white house. Rod into thick something called cash for clunkers in 2009. People were offered financial incentives for more info more efficient car. He was brought in to fix that. He is the head guy. Elevated to the status of a contractor that was part of a program to bring guns into say they will now be the chief contractor to do that. That is the Quality Software services known as q ssi. One could say they are part of a faulty always faulty rollout. The thought is to bring in a new contractor at this point. They have a lot of time to get up to speed. Lets go with this company. They are known as the federal data hub, one of the pieces that has been worked in. Host what did you learn from having the contractors testify about what they did to the website. Go guest that there is a lot of blame to go around. They were blaming each other. Members trying to get more specific information about what happened when. It was a window into what is ongoing. The house ways and Means Committee Kathleen Sebelius will be in front of energy and commerce on wednesday. I think the story continues to unfold. Want to invite you into the conversation. If you want to call and comment about the Affordable Care act ask questions about it, we have divided the phone lines. If you find yourself uninsured the number on the screen. Pick a line. You can tweet us as well. What do we expect to hear from the secretary, sebelius . Guest you cant expect a lot of followups. What specific steps did you take . What was the white houses involvement . You can now go on to the site and look at rates without creating an account. You can give them more information about qualifying for the medicaid expansion. It was slightly reduce the sticker shock that you would see on the browsing feature. Host hasnt been any indication on how she might respond . Guest she and other officials have been very open that they should have tested more and tested earlier. Other officials have done that. They will acknowledge what they have done wrong. They are talking about what they are trying to do now. They have a heightened sense of awareness that this has to be done. If you want coverage to start january 1, you need to be enrolled by december 15. That will help people make that deadline. I think people are getting a little nervous about the timeline. There are problems happening with that. Host joe manchin talked about maybe a delay. Guest Jeanne Shaheen has talked about increasing the time for the enrollment period. Right now able and on march 31. Joe manchin is talking about delaying the mandate and penalty for a year. Joe manchin is working with a republican on the individual mandate delay. This is not where the ministration wants to be with the conversation. Host who expects the november deadline will be met . Guest i would say there is a healthy amount of skepticism. Many of these same officials said we will be ready to go on october 1. Lots of things have happened. We didnt anticipate we would have so many people on the site. Host this is dana, insured. Good morning. Caller i would like to see some consideration by the caller i would like to see some consideration by the administration looking into the thousands of embedded bush political operatives that opted to become federal employees at the time that Bush Administration ended. I have not heard anything indicating that over the last six or seven years. An after was made to identify potential individuals working in the executive branch that may in fact impede the operations for the purpose of political ends and not for the good of the people. Host why is it important to you . Caller many years ago i learned from it may have been cspan but i learn that tens of thousands of bush people that were put into various executive branches to make sure that the policies of the Bush Administration were being followed by employees in the executive branch. Guest i have not heard that at all and i find it interesting. I will keep my ears open, thank you. Host this is michael from new jersey, uninsured. Michael, good morning. Caller good morning. My opinion everything because generally he is host lets go on to gary who is insured. Caller good morning. My understanding is there were Insurance Companies involved in writing the obamacare policies. If that is true, they lean towards a policy more advantageous for them. Guest Insurance Companies did give their input to capitol hill and every sector, whether it is an Insurance Company or hospital, would want this law to work out well for them. There is no doubt they have lobbied to get provisions they liked and disliked. Congress takes all that information and create the law as they see fit. I do not want to say industries do not influence it. They will get a lot of new customers as part of the creation of the Affordable Care act. They do not like some of the new fees and taxes on their industry. There is probably a next bag for a lot of Companies Involved in health care. Host there was a story by the lost angeles times. Some of their Health Insurance is going to get pricier. Our health Insurance Companies changing their policies for members because of the Affordable Care act . Guest lets talk about what is happening in the individual markets. There are policies that may not offer the same comprehensiveness of coverage that the Affordable Care act has. It covers Maternity Care and hospitalization and so on. They are getting noticed that the current policy will not meet the federal standards. This story has gone a lot of attention in the press this week. This coverage is no longer adequate. You can enroll in a different policy. You may pay more or less for your coverage. This is something that is upsetting to people who like the policy they had. Host jane up next from tampa, florida, uninsured. Caller good morning. I have not applied for the aca but my son did and he didnt have a problem with it. I do not understand why it is such a problem for people to say that the aca is crashing or whatever. A time you apply for food stamps or medicare, you have to wait for it. Anybody that applies for those things know that. There is a long. Of time and i do not understand why it is such a big deal. Guest congratulations to your son. That is great he got through to apply. I understand the point youre making for other americans. There is a period of time where you need to wait. Key elements suggest the Affordable Care act up and running and to spread the risk is to get a lot of Young Healthy people into the system. If you need health care coverage, youre going to hang in there on healthcare. Gov until you can get the coverage locked down. For others who may be on the fence about, do i need this, is a cheaper for me to pay the penalty, the concern is they might get frustrated and not persevere to sign up for health care coverage. Host there is an article in the New York Times about that. See the rest of this discussion at www. Cspan. Org. Going live to at the eye headquarters. President obama speaking at the installation ceremony this afternoon. James calm he was a Deputy Attorney general during the george w. Bush administration. Lex please be seated, everybody. Please be seated everybody. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. My name is sean joyce, Deputy Director of the at the eye. Today we are truly honored to be joined by president barack obama. Mr. President. [applause] mr. President , on behalf of every fbi employee, it is my crib wedge to welcome you back to fbi headquarters. [applause] we also have a number of other special guests here today, including former director webster, sessions and the special warmup welcome back to director mueller and his wife. [applause] we also welcome former attorney general ashcroft. I would also like to have the directors join me on stage including to my far left, robert dortch, a friend and colleague with whom director call me worked to help some of richmond hardest hit areas. Most importantly, director call me his wife. Thank you for taking part in todays ceremony. We are also pleased to have the directors children, maureen, Kate Brian Claire and abby. [applause] also, director call me his brother. We are here for two purposes. First, director call me was sworn in during a private ceremony in attorney general holders office on september 4. We reviewed the rules and regulations and determined that oath was invalid. So officially i have been director. Second equally important, we wanted to be able to officially welcome director call me and his family into the fbi family. [applause] we are all honored to mark the occasion, along with director call mes family and close friends. Now, with those that are seated please rise for the color guard. Please remain standing for the singing of the National Anthem by jimmy wheeler, a retired new York Port Authority Police Officer with whom director call me worked in new york director colmey in new york. O say can you see by the dawnss early light, what so proudly we hail at the twilights last gleaming whose bright broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. Oh the ramparts we walk were so gallantly streaming and the brock rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that spar star spangled banner yet wave, oer the ramparts oer the land of the free and the home of the creator of the gift called life. We thank you for another day and the breath of your spirit. This fills us with opportunities. We thank you for this moment to celebrate the installation of james colmey to director of fbi. We call on you to bless the ceremony and every one a part of the celebration. We thank you for those of us that go before us and for the opportunities to enjoy life and liberty. We thank you for the men and women and their families. Without fanfare for the weakening joy the proofs of freedom. We thank you for jim and willingness to accept your call to serve as director of the fbi. Equipped with the intellect innovative spirit and integrity for such a time as this, to serve the nation and to bless this world. As we embark on this journey, i ask that you will bless him and his family plus him with all that is needed for him to be successful in this endeavor. There will be good days and not so good days but blessed him with the faith to call on you the fortitude to forge ahead. Bless them with the resilience when setbacks come his way. Now god i pray that not only will you bless jim but you will bless america. Not only do you bless where we live, but i ask that you would bless how we lived. Bless america with a shared vision and purpose while we embrace our differences and continue to strive to Work Together to build a better america where freedom and democracy and justice for all will shine for all americans. Not only do we ask that you would bless us, but blessed the world in which we live where love will be the common part. The world will be a more blessed place for our children and children all over the world. All of gods people together said amen. Amen and amen. God loves you, and god bless you. [applause] thank you for the wonderful blessing. I would like to invite judge walker and director to come forward for the real administration of the oath of office. I will be very brief. It is a very crowded day for jim, denise and his five children. President obama, attorney general holder and a man who hired him 28 years ago. And even prouder day for the women and men of fbi and all of us that care about the Law Enforcement agency, including all of the former fbi directors and former attorney generals, many of whom are here today. Ever since our year together which is great fun by the way as we both learn new jobs. Jim did not mean any talking from me. A modest guy. He has always been serious about his work, but never takes himself too seriously. After that first year, i had high expectations. They were exceeded in no small part due to the open, generous, modest person that he is. Jim is a fine lawyer come off hardworking and smart. He is also an actual leader who inspires those around him. His ability to inspire has been a part of his entire career in Law Enforcement. The u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, Deputy Attorney general under a attorney general ash crop in the Bush Administration he has achieved what one thought was a pinnacle of the life and forced Law Enforcement career, and now it is. All of this past experience makes temperature coolly well suited. Jim appreciates the full worth of what you do. You can be sure that your director will steer a straight course. He will insist investigations be thoroughly pursued for wherever they may go. As a former prosecutor in the frontline against terrorism, he will lead. He will be independent and a town in which politics determine so much. Perhaps too much. He will pay no heed. For him, there will be no room for this. As a law clerk 28 years ago he first took the oath of pumpkin off of office that he will not take, the very same oath. These words have a special meaning. It will guide him as fbi director. Will you administer the oath . Please raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the United States. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this operation freely obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office for which i am about to enter. So help me god. [applause] it is official. The 84th president of the United States, president barack obama. [applause] thank you. Thank you thomas f ei. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, please. Good afternoon, everybody. I am so proud to be here and stand once again with so many dedicated men and women of the at the i. You are the best of the best. Day in and then day out you work power leslie tirelessly to address the crisis our nation faces. You serve with integrity and protect americans at home and abroad. You lock up criminals, secure the homeland against the threat of terrorism. Without a lot of fanfare seeking the spotlight, you do your job. All the while upholding our most cherished values and upholding the rule of law. Bravery, integrity that is your motto. Today we are here to welcome a remarkable new leader for this remarkable new institution. One who lives the principles out every single day. Jim call me. I have to give a special shout out to bob moeller who served longer than he was supposed to but was such an extra narrator leader to some through some of the most difficult times we have had in national security. Thank you very much. [applause] jim has dedicated his life to defending hours. Making sure all americans protect our Justice System writes and there will being. He is the grandson of a meatpacker. Prosecutor who helped bring down the gambinos. The relentless attorney who fought to stem the bloody gun violence. Defeat walk whitecollar crime and defeat terrorist. Just about impossible to find a matter of justice he has not tackled and hard to imagine somebody who is not more uniquely qualified to lead a bureau that covers all of it. Positional threats like i went, organized crime that is constantly

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