illinois t. only way to do that is the constitutional amendment. i think it freshens the system. we imposed term limits within congress on our critical position, like our chairmanships. so we rotate people so they can t be in the same job, we term limit our people. i ve always liked the term littles proposal. on the lobbyist things, some things are a little more complicated than they seem. do i think a person shouldn t leave right away and go into lobbying? yes, i agree with that, they should not do that. but what if you want to become an advocate for the cancer society. what if you want to after you retired help your local hospital system and be on their board to support them and go get legislation. there are a lot of other unseen circumstances that can play into this. you bought the to be careful about that. when people leave, what is it for them advocating for causes they believe in t. question is are they going to get rich and
so ray just eluded to it but obviously, as you know because you were briefed on it, intelligence officials alerted the president elect that there are claims by russians, claims that they have materials that could be compromising and there are communications between his campaign and the russian government, claims. let me just ask here is the question. donald trump says this say political witch hunt and the intelligence agencies are poll litizing intelligence. you re the speaker of the house privy to some of the most classified briefings. do you agree they what has been elevated is private opposition research done by a political opponent on completely unsubstantiated raw moores and th rumors and that is elevated and i think that is wrong. i don t want to confirm legitimacy about this by talking about it and i think people
today were briefed by top intelligence officials about the hacking activities by russia into the election. there are a lot of concerns among the american people. i want to turn to ray dafner, an independent voter. my grandfather came from russia to the united states and his family had a prosperous business and left not because they wanted to but forced to by anti jewish pilgrims that threatened livelihood and life. putin s russia continues to treat citizens in an undemocratic way and worse. they imprison and they assassinate their critics. they assault their neighbors like ukraine. they support our enemies, and they undermine our allies and of course, most recently, they interfered in our election through hacking and possibly have attempted to blackmail our highest officials. so my question mr. speaker is what will you and what will
we want to reform medicaid to make sure states will invite it so that it works for their citizens and they can actually get care. thank you so much. i want to part of your plan for repealing obama care is to defund planned parenthood. i want to bring in shannan vow who is a physical therapy graduate student here at v.w. where you from, shannan? it s complicated. i moved here for graduate school but i m from northern california. okay. so among a lot of other things that we have heard in the news, planned parenthood provides s provides cervical cancer screenings and other critical health care services. and i will continue and i have used these services for the next four years. and i can tell you personally that planned parenthood provided help when i couldn t go to anybody else. so my question for you, speaker ryan, is if planned parenthood is defunded, then where will
millions of women, low income groups it s a good question. first of all, i want to make sure you get the care you need and all women get the care they need like preventive screenings and services like you re talking about. we believe this can better be done by putting it in federal community health centers. i have a lot of experience with them myself. they are in virtually every community. by putting these dollars in the federal community health centers, which provide the same kinds of services for every planned parenthood, there are vastly bigger in network, there are so many more of them, and they provide these kinds of services without the controversy surrounding this issue. can i just ask you, you believe in providing more choice for people when it comes to health insurance. except for planned parenthood well, there is a long standing principle we believe in and this is for pro-choice, pro life that we don t want to commit taxpayer funding for