Good evening. And he represents rhode island in the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory
Good evening. And he represents rhode island in the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory
In the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory capture as, say, Railroad Barons running the
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She cant be denied insurance or made to pay higher premiums either because of her gender or because of these preexisting conditions. She expressed to me astonishment. Many of us are engaged and interested in this because we care about the constitution, we care about constitutional law. And the ways in which it impacts a majority of all americans, frankly all americans. Help me explain to her how is it that the Affordable Care act settled eight years ago is back in front of the Supreme Court . Well, senator, i spent some time with senator sasse talking about how a case winds its way up and it is because litigants chose to challenge the law again. And, you know it went through the District Court and the fifth circuit and now the Supreme Court has granted certiorari on it. But as to the broader question, which i think is a political one, which is why are people fighting the Affordable Care act, you have to ask the litigants. I dont i dont know why theyre fighting the Affordable Care act.