Welcome to the Virtual Event we are having. This is concerning confronting the healthcare crisis in Rural America. Today we are releasing recommendations for this. Im bill hoagland, a Senior Vice President with the center, and have the distinct pleasure of working with and overseeing our health care project. We have a very full agenda. Let me get a few logistics out of the way quickly. We are all adjusting to this new way of conducting meetings and events. We hope everything works out as we go through and i want to say thank you to the Production Company for helping us put this on. For those of you who have joined this zoom platform, you will receive a message shortly from one of our staff, morgan bailey, in the chat box function with a link to the report. For the viewers, the cspan viewers and others who wish to get a copy of the report, you can go to our website, bipartisan policy. Org, and a link will be on the bpc events page under the health section. Later this morning, you will h
What you just did so thank you very much. A few moments we have a very special guest is coming out the former Vice President of United States joe biden. [applause] along with Vice President we have a proud president jason romain. Yes, louder. And along with jason romain senator bob dole republican from kansas. They will also have tom daschle democrat from south dakota. And George Mitchell also democrat from maine. Nevertheless this is a very very special moment for us so i would please ask that all of you please silence your cell phones and if you wouldnt mind when the gentlemen come up to the stage if you wouldnt mind doing this. Thank you very much. And of course i just forgot to introduce my boss. So nevertheless im very proud to chase the founding president of the Bipartisan Policy Committee and that is jason romain. Im very nervous tonight, i dont know why. [applause] we will let our gang a symbol for just a moment. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [i
Good evening. This is an important moment for me and the Bipartisan Policy Center. We founded this with the leadership of bob dole, george mitchell, howard baker. Saying those names gives me a and a realof pride confidence in the strength of our democracy. From the beginning the Bipartisan Policy Center has ,een animated by core ideas that americas inspiration flows from our nations on their political and cultural diversity. That our stability and rely on our differences. That politics, like all productive human interactions, is about the integrity of ideas, personal connection, and trust. 10 years later these ideas still guide our work. As proud progresses and staunch conservatives, we have a vibrance and at times in tents come affordable culture intense political culture. Nothing is checked at the door. Staff and the hundreds of people in our negotiations to bring their politics, personal commitments, economic interests all to the table. The only catch is that they will be spending t
Good evening. This is an important moment for me and the Bipartisan Policy Center. We founded this with the leadership of bob dole, george mitchell, howard baker. Saying those names gives me a and a realof pride confidence in the strength of our democracy. From the beginning the Bipartisan Policy Center has ,een animated by core ideas that americas inspiration flows from our nations on their political and cultural diversity. That our stability and rely on our differences. That politics, like all productive human interactions, is about the integrity of ideas, personal connection, and trust. 10 years later these ideas still guide our work. As proud progresses and staunch conservatives, we have a vibrance and at times in tents come affordable culture intense political culture. Nothing is checked at the door. Staff and the hundreds of people in our negotiations to bring their politics, personal commitments, economic interests all to the table. The only catch is that they will be spending t
Biden with a lifetime ievement award heard award. This is about 45 minutes. Good evening. This is a proud moment for me and the Bipartisan Policy Center. We founded this with the leadership of tom daschle, bob dole, George Mitchell, howard baker. Saying those four names gives me a deep sense of pride and a real confidence in the strength of our democracy. From the beginning, the Bipartisan Policy Center has been animated by core ideas that americas inspiration flows from our nations on their political and cultural diversity. That our stability and resilience rely on our differences. That politics, like all productive human interactions, is about the integrity of ideas, personal connection, and trust. 10 years later, these ideas still guide our work. Staunch conservatives, we have as proud progressives and staunch conservatives, we have a vibrant and at times intense political culture. Nothing is checked at the door. We ask our staff and the hundreds of people in our negotiations to bri