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Mr. Thornberry mentioned about ack which situation reform and making sure the system works better. I thank the chairman who has taken the lead on this issue. I think we have made significant improvements while acknowledging that we still have a long way to go to get the efficiency out of the pentagon budget. I think this bill does a great job supporting the troops and their families. Its basically the case we recruit a Service Member but you retain the family, and that means you have to provide ...

Type tax reform. Today is day two of the Senate Committee review live on capitol hill. This is just getting under way. It collects input from amendments that have been filed. Because of a larm number of amendments we have processed the modified mark will be given to members later today as has been discussed with our Ranking Member and everyone can then have time to read over the modifications. After that process we will resume a markup tomorrow morning with the modified mark. Before we proceed t...

Winners and losers. Angry because the misery index for some members is more important for the misery index in my district or the northeast. Five years ago, we were about a month of month after Superstorm Sandy. We had political handtohand combat to get what the rest of the nation has gotten almost automatically with every Natural Disaster in the whole course of our nations history. But no, Superstorm Sandy, there had to be an offset. We barely got the help we needed. And this is all tied in toge...

[inaudible conversations] senate reconsider the consideration of the tax cuts in jobs that and begin by walking through with the chief of staff from the joint committee on taxation following the conclusion of this process which will likely take some time it will be provided to members later today. Because of a large number of amendments we have processed a modified mark will be given to members later today and then everybody can have time to read over the modifications. We will reserve the marku...

For instance. They might find it illuminating and realize that what they have been saying is factually false. Unfortunately, its a much more nefarious condition than ignorance that afflicts this administration on Climate Change. And it is a condition that cannot be cured with facts. This is about fossil fuel money. The malitty is what prevents the stark warnings in the Climate Science report from being a call to action in congress. Mr. President , at the cop23 gathering, we saw that the rest of ...

Begin general debate on the g. O. P. Tax reform plan later this afternoon. Live now to the u. S. House here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by dr. Glynn stone, moberly bam activity church, lorning view, text texas. Dr. Stone thank you lord, god, you are our ho...

Republican leaders of the house are behind closed doors trying to convert noes and neighbors on the health care redo. It is alive and kicking, but will it stand up . There are holdout members, we just got word of one republican who says not only am i not going to vote for the new one, my stance has gotten even tougher and harder. Fair and balanced Freedom Caucus member Mark Stanford and democratic congressman take us inside the closeddoor meetings happening on capitol hill. Lieutenant colonel ra...

Theyre leaning toward the Health Care Deal right now. You know what that means, moderates on board, largely moderates, do you keep conservatives on board. Back and forth we have on that. Well explore that. Goes back to socalled issue of preexisting conditions, what is covered and how is it covered, both crucial, as blake burman can tell you he live from the white house. Hi, blake. Reporter two congressman now yeses as they said outside white house, fred upton, billy long, those two are driving t...

Replacing it instead with federally funded high risk pools. There would be big changes to medicaid after 2020, no new enrollees would be accepted. And the bill scraps obamacares mandate that everyone must enroll in a Health Insurance program or pay a penalty on their taxes. Obamacares dead. So when you compare something to obamacare, obamacare is no longer living. And we have something thats going to be i think one of the best anywhere in the world and we look forward to it. Democrats already ge...

This briefing is part of a series on the future of Health Insurance and we will actually be doing three summits on the future of health care this year starting with the future of Health Insurance, chronic care, and the excited that youre here and its certainly i think fair to say that when it comes to Health Insurance the future starts here and now in the senate. We have a lot to talk about today but before we do i want to thank our sponsors for todays session, our annual Summit Series sponsors ...