And how many were enslaved including those born free in the north. Enjoy American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Now, a hearing on the Health Concerns of veterans exposed to dangerous chemicals in uzbekistan known as k2. A veteran told members of the House Oversight committee that more Scientific Data is needed before providing health care and disability benefits to veterans who served at the base between 2001 and 2005. Hearin this is about 90 minutes. Ecur ity all right. Good morning, everyone. O welcome to todays hybrid will hearing of the national Oversight Committee on the committee of oversight and me government reform. Pursuant to house rules, some persons will appear remotely anl some in person via webex. Ce mas. Let me remind everyone from thea latest guidance from the house. Physician all individuals attending this hearing in persos will have to wear a face mask. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaki
We are called to order, subcommittee on oversight. Thank everyone for joining us a today. We are holding this hearing virtually if you didnt realize it and compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings her House Resolution 965. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of the few procedures and help you navigate this virtual hearing. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Third, we will dispense with our practice of observing the given to roll and instead go in order of seniority for questioning, alternating between minority and majority, beginning with members of the oversight subcommittee fir
And utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreciate it very much. We look forward to hearing from you. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Well then introduce the five governors, after they almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . After that testimony, the senators will each have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday when we had the state Insurance Commissioners
Governors of massachusetts, montana, tennessee, colorado, and utah. This hearing runs about three hours. [ gavel tapping ] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Were holding our second of four hearings on stabilizing premiums and insuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus, and we are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states with us here today. Thank you, gentlemen. We know how busy you are. Youve come long distances to be here, and we appreciate it very much. We look forward to hearing from you. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Well then introduce the five governors, after they almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . After that testimony, the senators will each have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting where the governors met with senators not on our committee. We had 30 senators there, similar
We are up off the lows of the session actually. Still seeing a decline. We were seeing a drop of about into thisprices going report. Usually it takes a little time for it to shake out. Out later where oil is trading. Whats going on in the stock market today. A little bit of a drowned downdraft. You into thee bloomberg and take a look at the groups on the move. We were just talking about oil prices and energy has been one of the drags in todays session. Discretionary stocks are weaker. Financials are weaker in the wake of earnings from j. P. Morgan and citigroup that the estimates. There were some disappointments in the numbers and Telecom Stocks falling. Lost videot had subscribers last quarter. Weve got them strength in utilities industrials and consumer staples. That is the balancing act we are seeing at the moment. Toside of stocks and forgot mention bitcoin rising to a record yet again. 5,200 for one bitcoin. Jamie dimon when asked about that coin said, im not going to talk about b