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Good morning. I want to welcome the secretary back today. This is her first times since being confirmed. I want to thank you for appearing before us today to discuss the reauthorization. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill hopefully during this work. How and we appreciate the administrations engagement. Already this year the committee has held hearings on a range of topics underpinning the effort including safety, drone policy, aircraft certification, consumer concerns an...

On wednesday, following the chaodents speech, elaine testified before the senate commerce, science and Transportation Committee on the future of the federal Aviation Administration and the president s proposal to privatize the air Traffic Control system. This is just over two hours. Good morning. I want good morning. I want welcome elaine chao back today. We are working hard on a bipartisan basis to produce a bill ropefully during the work period and we appreciate the administrations end in gage...

And im Francine Lacqua. Lets quickly check on your markets. Global stocks are definitely rising. Shares in japan are probably advancing the most. The yen weakening after the bank of japan left Monetary Policy unchanged. Treasuries holding onto losses. Traders still, i think trying to digest the more hawkish tone struck by the federal reserve. I wanted to put gold in there as well, practically flat. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter russia has verified that the Islamic ...

Story. These are millions of americans across the country, by the way, of all income levels. People think of medicaid as people who are financially not in a position to get care at any given moment. Thats true. It does take care of the poor, but it also takes care of nursing home care for people who worked all their lives and just dont have enough. Its 9,000 a month in the state of hawaii for nursing home care. Its more than that for hospice care. We all know, nobody escapes endofflife care. Ric...

Story. These are millions of americans across the country, by the way, of all income levels. People think of medicaid as people who are financially not in a position to get care at any given moment. Thats true. It does take care of the poor, but it also takes care of nursing home care for people who worked all their lives and just dont have enough. Its 9,000 a month in the state of hawaii for nursing home care. Its more than that for hospice care. We all know, nobody escapes endofflife care. Ric...

Body. Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator plop . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell i come to the floor tonight to raise concern about a proposed Senate Health care bill that might move through the United States senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without hearing, without attention to the details actually, almost in secret. I guess it would be secret if we didnt know exactly what was in the house bill. It would be even more secret. People ha...

Will come to order. This morning, we are continue our oversight efforts with regard to the 2017 trafficking in persons report. Thank snard caenator cardinand of the committee this committee has conducted extensive oversight on this issue instituted annual briefings for members at state department. Prior to the release of the annual trafficking in persons report. We ask every nominee before this committee to commit to help fight against modern slavery. This oversight has been noted at the state d...

Will come to order. This morning, we are continue our oversight efforts with regard to the 2017 trafficking in persons report. Thank snard caenator cardinand of the committee this committee has conducted extensive oversight on this issue instituted annual briefings for members at state department. Prior to the release of the annual trafficking in persons report. We ask every nominee before this committee to commit to help fight against modern slavery. This oversight has been noted at the state d...

Floor proportions from yesterdays debate. The senator from vermont. Thank you, mr. President. Let me just begin by taking a moment to summarize for the American People where we are at in this enormous discussion which is causing a great deal of anxiety all over vermont and all over america. That is, several months ago, the republicanled house passed by three votes. Legislation that would throw 23 million americans off of Health Insurance they currently have. 23million americans, men, women and c...

The committee will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing entitled americas Affordable Housing crisis, challenges and solutions. This is an important issue in this hearing will allow the committee to hear from experienced and welleducated witnesses that can provide more context on Affordable Housing policies and the sections of the tax code with the intent of mitigating this longtime set of problems in our society. As many of you are aware the last time we underwent a Natio...