Debate managed by part of the ways and Means Committee. Might consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal im pleased to join with the speaker and other Committee Chairs to have introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act and welcome consideration of the measure in the house today. Hearing the former chairman of the Energy Committee a few minutes ago, decent guy, he said that there was room for bipartisanship. In the health care debate. I mean, ive been here for a long time. Where was the bipartisanship, and im going to submit something republicans in all the years i have been in this house they have not agreed amongst themselves on health care, never mind agreing with democrats on health care. So for years, weve worked to expand access. Thats what this argument about is about today. We want to make sure that Affordable Health care exists for the American Family and to build on the coverage gains of the Affordable Care act. The c
And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a
Has been the trend we have been watching for quite some time future indicated 44 points by the dow. S p futures by 3. 5 this comes after we saw all three of the major averages sitting at new highs again on friday thats happened a lot recently the dow and the s p 500 up for the last seven of the last eight sessions nasdaq on an eightday winning streak and thats something that youre watching as we kind of rush into the Holiday Season here also look at whats happening in the treasury market. Youll see that right now the ten year looks like it is yielding 1. 91 just below 2 for the ten year we have some news breaking just literally in the past hour now. Report saudi arabia sentencing five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist jamal khashoggi, he was murdered of course in that saudi consulate in istanbul just last year by a team of saudi agents saudistate run tv saying three other people were sentenced to prison over the killings and reports say that the investigation
Fdacurrent ambassador, and commissioner. You can see live coverage on cspan. This week, the Top Republican of the energy and commerce committee, thank you for being here. Rep. Walden thank you. Also with us as a congressional reporter. Go ahead. Thank you for being here today. We know nancy pelosi is plowing ahead with impeachment. It does not look like a single republican will be joining democrats in voting for the articles of impeachment. We do have testimony from a part of these witnesses like colonel vindman, who was on the july phone call, fiona hill, who was in a meeting between Gordon Sondland and ukrainians, who testified they raised concerns about the conduct regarded ukraine. Do you share any of those concerns . Do you think anything you have seen or heard from these fact witnesses is alarming and inappropriate . Rep. Walden i dont think that is the question. The question is does this deserve to have a resident removed. That is the threshold for impeachment. When i read throu
Were getting this going after votes. The house subcommittee will come to order. Brief Opening Statements and then two panels. Welcome all of you for coming. This is the Third Session of congress in which i have introduced legislation to ban the practice of surprise billing. Todays bipartisan hearing represents an initial effort by this committee to finally offer some relief to patients whove been bearing the brunt of a dispute between their insurers and some of their Health Care Providers. For patients, you can take all the right steps in attempting to see that your care network is covered but you may still face big bills. One in seven americans have received a surprise bill as part of receiving care at a hospital that is actually within their Insurance Network. The problem in san antonio, one of the communities that i represent, has been so extensive that jay avola has initiated an entire Television Series called show me your bill. And i think a quick video clip from that adequately d