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Legislation was in the sanders veterans bill last week, and it was in the burr alternative. It was in both the democratic and the republican veterans packages. Neither of those packages passed. The sanders bill was defeated on a budget point of order, which i supported, because i dont think its properly paid for and is sustainable both in terms of our budget and, even more importantly for veterans, how the veteran system works and handles its current patient load. The burr bill never even got a ...

People have to turn to Student Loans to help finance their education. In just a few moments you will hear from britney jones. Shes going to be talking about how taking out Student Loans made it possible for her to get a College Degree and britney id look forward to hearing more about your experiences. You were to start a teaching career and the same time paying down the student loan the but later college. Of course britney is not alone. Dealing with overbearing student debt is becoming a reality...

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Production. And so there have been there are some things in the farm bill that would restrict Crop Insurance a little bit. Thats thats in the senate in the senate bill. But then there are other pressures to increase Crop Insurance for crops that dont have it. Its much harder to do Crop Insurance for the specialty crops, the fruits and vegetables, the nuts, et cetera, because theyre grown on smaller acreages and so its hard to develop the program in which you figure out what the what the rules wo...

No, that would be great. Let me share with you a story from michigan that was highlighted in an article in the l. A. Times that talked about a woman named judith, 48 years old, work in a department store, had an Insurance Plan that costs are 65 per month that was a was affordable, she thought she had insurance, but then she was diagnosed with cancer and found out that her plan had a 2000 annual limit for treatment, so she delayed her care and it got worse, she was in a difficult situation. Madam...

Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this ...

Cms test performed. Let me continue because i have a short time. A lot of stories from constituents. Onuy says he tried to get for two leaks and found that his coverage was doubled. A woman called in having tough time making ends meet. Telephoneof call and says she still has not heard back. The stories are out there. 12 Million People nationally will lose the coverage they have. We talked about a lot of promises that were made. How many ohioans had their Insurance Plans canceled . Do we know . I...

Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak ...

Sorry i had to excuse myself during the testimony. A couple points. One is i like myself and a handful of other staffers make sure that we were enrolled in our new Health Care Plan because we couldnt get confirmation. Fortunately i got confirmation that im finding out like everybody else i have less coverage at a higher cost. The concern is as it is exhibited by the constituents on Medicare Advantage we will see the same thing of her in Medicare Advantage and so i think that this is a timely hea...

Cutting it back. Rex thank you so much. Thank you to all of you and thank you to the chairman. I went to my times of thank you for allowing me to do so. That concludes our first round of questions. We will go to one followup per side. Dr. Burgess will begin with five minutes of followup. I wanted to followup with talkingff we were about. There is a crisis of confidence. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on a raft of us premises. You can keep your plan, false. You can keep your docto...