Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webx. Some members are appearing in person. Let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the attending physician, all individuals attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask unless you are speaking. Members not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for these members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking in what is known as webx as active speaker view. The timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with webx by now, but let me remind you of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing, whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webx set to active speak
Remains optimistic he could support a bill if changes were made. It would be brought to the floor as early as thursday. The possibility of a Government Shutdown looms. Here to discuss heater higgins, president and ceo of independent womens voice and Ford Oconnell and kayleigh macini. How many cornhusker kickback deals can be made between now and thursday . There will be a large bevy of amendments that will come forward. I think this bill continually gets better. But the differences are not irreconcilable. They believe in empowering the American People and keeping more of their wealth. Charles you send a lot of time in d. C. And new york so you understand this as well as anyone else. People are hard pressed to think that people would mess up tax reform but it happened with obamacare. There will be serious lastminute negotiations. But i think most of of them will improve the bill. Charles what is an improved bill . I think ron johnson and steve d air, nes if they can and steve daines, if
Good morning everyone. Im joe the American Enterprise institute and i want to welcomen everyone here in our comforter and everyone watching through electronic means to conference t today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the Health Insurance market under the Affordable Care act and, in particular, some proposal made by a group of eight governors will actually be following the panel. You may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us and the answer is travel considerations. Fortunately, although this panel is certainly not obligated to confine their remarks solely to the governors proposal, fortunately, the governor did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. I will start by summarizing and raising the point so that everyone has a basic grounding in what the governors are talking about and, to some extent, the basic grounding about what were talking about, as well. So, they identify really three categories of actions
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang the somber tallies keep mounting tonight in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The death toll has risen to 48, many thousands are struggling to get home across florida, and officials are rushing aid to the states hardesthit sections. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter roads leading to the shattered florida keys reopened early this morning. People lined up in cars, anxious to return to their homes, or whatever remains of them, and tensions were running high. Right now we dont know where to go. Reporter some found lawns filled with debris, siding ripped off their houses, trailer homes and boats knocked over like toy models. Governor rick scott flew over floridas coast on monday. The negative is, if you were in the keys, youve
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang the somber tallies keep mounting tonight in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The death toll has risen to 48, many thousands are struggling to get home across florida, and officials are rushing aid to the states hardesthit sections. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter roads leading to the shattered florida keys reopened early this morning. People lined up in cars, anxious to return to their homes, or whatever remains of them, and tensions were running high. Right now we dont know where to go. Reporter some found lawns filled with debris, siding ripped off their houses, trailer homes and boats knocked over like toy models. Governor rick scott flew over floridas coast on monday. The negative is, if you were in the keys, youve