Then these rules committee will interpret and possibly bring up as an amendment whenever that legislation goes to that committee. And it was passed out of committee to 1917. You write that of alabama, mark sanfd southarolina and the republicans opposing reporting it out. Why did they oppose the bill as it is and what does that say about future lobbying effort on the efforts of speaker ryan and the white house and getting the bill to the house was smart. There is a lot of concerns about the legislation from both curtis and moderates in the republican party. On the conservative side, they want to see some of the changes from the meter provisions a lot of concern about when the Medicaid Expansion will end. The current proposal has ending at 2020, they would like to move back to 2018. Theres also a push from both sides of the party to incomebased tax credits. Right now those tax credits are provided on in each basis and they would like to make sure that lower income individuals as well as
And withstanding criticism and we also have the former director of medicaid into services and bill hoagland who is a favored reporter bipartisan, very helpful and a former budget committee. Thank you very much for coming. We really appreciate everyone being here today. When we planned this conference we thought wed be a little farther along in our discussion. We thought thered be some conversation going on and there has been a few private conversations but not as much action as youd expect all those many months ago. As you think about Childrens Health coverage what are some of the key aspects that youre thinking about press a mark ill let anyone jump in mark . Happy to start. The chip program is a key part of Childrens Health coverage. 6 million kids in tip and its an important program. That being said we want to focus on the big contacts which is we have over 30 million kids in the Medicaid Program so we think of tip as a 15 solution, a good solution but the lion share of the lipids i
Intelligence committee has stepped aside from the panels russia investigation. Critics accused devin nunes of trying to provide cover for President Trumps unfounded wire tap claims against president obama. The other breaking story is the show down in the u. S. Senate over the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination. Just a little while ago Senate Republicans invoked whats called the Nuclear Option. That allowed a simple 51 majority to break the democrat as filibuster. A source telling cnn President Trump told several members of the congress that he is considering military action in response to the horrific chemical weapons attack in syria. During a News Conference with jordans king yesterday, the president called the syria attack a heinous act that changed his views on syria. I will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact. That was a horrible, horrible thing. And ive been watching it and seeing it and it doesnt get any worse than that. Lets bring in