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We wanted to be on the steps of the capitol, and we will do this again soon and constantly. It is an honor to be here with Chuck Schumer and with the chair of the hispanic caucus in the house, congresswoman of new mexico, senator durbin has been a champion of the dreamers that first introduced the bill in 2001 even before 9 11. The champion on this issue now serves as the ranking democrat on the Homeland Security committee where again, she continues her work to be diligent protecting the dreamer...

Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats...

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[inaudible conversations] please come to order. We are holding the first hearing on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individuals Health Insurance market for 2018. How to help the 18 million americans and the individual Insurance Market to give an idea of how many people are interested in this, we invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate on the committee. To come to. Weve got senators there so that is remarkable interest. We will each ...

Commissions will please come to order. We are holding our second hearings on stabilizing premiums and ensuring access to the individual Health Insurance market for the year 2018. Thats our focus. We are delighted and honored to have the governors of five states here today. Thank you, gentlemen. You have come long distances to be here. We look forward to learning from you. We will each have an Opening Statement and introduce the five governors after almost sounds like a singing group, doesnt it ....

This hearing is about taking one small step. A small step on the big issue that has been locked for seven years, Health Insurance. It is a step Congress Needs to pick by the end of this month. By the end of this month. To the 18 million americans, songwriters and selfemployed farmers, those that dont get their Health Insurance from the government or onthejob committees 18 million by their Health Insurance in the individual market and about half of them have zero Government Support to help buy th...

Before i begin, lets call the meeting to order. Before we begin to take just a moment to say that our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have been impacted over the past few days by hurricane irma. Of course, we continue to keep those suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our c...

Of Hurricane Harvey in our thoughts and prayers as well. These have truly been horrific events, and i hope and pray for the safety of everyone involved. I join with my colleagues in the commitment to doing all we can to assist our citizens who are in need at this extremely difficult time. We will see what we can do to help alleviate some of the pain. Now, the hearing were having today will come to order. 20 years ago senator ted kennedy and i came together to create the Childrens Health Insuranc...

[applause] so i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we tho...