So beautiful, so congratulations. Thank you so much for having us. Cassius and mark did a great job. They really did. Thank you very much. Mayor, you have made quite the name for yourself. Youre not even 30 yet, for being such a young mayor to the mayors for guaranteed program, to the universal basic Income Program but stockton often gets a bad rap so what do you hope people learn about you from this film and about your city . Well, mostly, help the people of this nation learn that cities like stockton matter. The community, the young people, the formerly incarcerated, teachers and essential workers are the life of the democracy and the solutions starts with listening and doing work that helps their dreams and aspirations, typically, young people. And hope people learn that in every community, theres a kid right now who may have a father whos incarcerated. They have a mother who had them young, who may be going to a school whos just as talented, just intelligent as kids anywhere else i
Commissions will please come to order. We are holding our second hearings on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here today. Thank you, gentlemen. You have come long distances to be here. We look forward to learning from you. We will each have an Opening Statement and introduce the five governors after almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it . Senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. We just left a meeting. We had 30 senators there, similar to yesterday when we had the state Insurance Commissioners here. We had 31 senators, most of them not on the Committee Meet for an hour and at the hearing we had 22 of our 23 Committee Members. So for two consecutive days we have had them focus on a single narrow objective. What can we do in the next couple of weeks . Thats a tall order. The next couple of
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