Expectancy and what is it based on? guest: life expectancy usually is a summary matrix indicator. It is based on the current mortality rates of people from birth to death. Hypothetically it says, if a baby was born today, how long would they live if the current mortality rates persisted throughout their lifetime? essentially it is a model, an indicator, but it is clearly unrealistic because mortality will change over time. Host: is there an average? guest: it is the expected value. It is like a mean. Host: an explanation. Guest: when you say the life expectancy of someone is 25, it says on average, for the average person who is alive at a specific age, this is what their expected life would look like. If those rates persisted throughout the remainder of their lives. Host: you were quoted on a new report, or information that came out from the cdc when it took a look at life expectancy showing an overall decline. Could you talk about what that report found? guest: the overall report said
While we are yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for inperson attendance, live video is available on our committee web site at help. Senate. Gov and if anyone is in need of accommodations, including closed captioning, please reap out to the committee or the office of congressional accessibility services. We are at a point of great promise and peril in the fight against covid19. While i am encouraged by the fact that 2/3 of adults in our country have received their first dose of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and how driven by the delta variant rates of covid19 cases and deaths are once again on the rise. Five counties in my state currently have high levels of transmission according to the centers for disease control and prevention. For example, in walla walla county, cases are up in july from june, and they were up in june from april and may, and even though 99% of the covid deaths nationwide last month were among peop
Last year we had a budget across our three organizations. We have a foundation, a o 1 c4, and one off to the side. We raised a combined $20 billion and had 50,000 different donors. And your organization in the past had been founded by the coke brothers. Is it still? i m glad you asked that question because we ve never been funded by the cokes. And so you said over 20 million donations and your primary midterm elections, what part of freedomworks handles that. So, that s where we ll do the door knocking, texting, handtohand work you do in an election. The foundation can comment on policies and pall esacies we believe in. And the c4 side can talk about bills we support. The politics comes from the side called freedom works for america. We ve seen your piece in news week talking about calling for a new contract in america. Of course, the first, 1994, from nute gingrich was very successful for the republican party then. Let s go through what you would like to see. I was in high school in 1
the hearing will come back to order. senator klobuchar. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. chairman. hello, judge. i want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isn t normal, we shouldn t be here right now. we are in the middle of a pandemic and people are sick. we are in the middle of an election and people are voting. and here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. i know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. and that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. people s lives depend on the affordable care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and relies on his prescription medication. emily from minneapolis, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. janet from rochester whose brother has a mental illness. or christie, a mom from bloomington whose daughter had a tumor. that is what is on the line. health care is on the line and
company and the public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. day three ofrom judge amy coney barrett s confirmation hearing. this includes lessons from senator klobuchar, codes, and on thought. among others. thank you. the hearing will come back to order. senator klobuchar. sen. klobuchar: thank you very much, mr. chairman. hello, judge. judge barrett: hi senator. sen. klobuchar: hello. i want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isn t normal. we shouldn t be here right now. we are in the middle of a pandemic, and people are sick. we are in the middle of an election, and people are voting. and yet here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. i know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. and that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. people s lives depend on the affordable care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who ha