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mugabe has been confined to his home but the army says it s not a coup reports from harare. parts of harare i m now on lockdown so it is an homage. to government offices parliament and the courts people say they are cautiously waiting to see what happens next many are relief so far there has been little violence i can see. moving as usual no more business. moving out on freely. the country s war veterans say they have had enough of president robert mugabe many helped keep him in palestinian force we. should have been recalled from a zero as the president insisted. he said on wednesday the president robert mugabe and his wife are safe in their private residence south africa s. it is jacob zuma said he was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm and restraint. particularly to the defense force and also to two forces and i have also. conducted the president. whom i had. time to talk to and he is fi ....
who serves on the judiciary and commerce communities. the text that opposition to the merger. this was hosted by the georgetown law institute. good afternoon. welcome i m so excited to see this crowd, to talk about the merger of the future media ownership. my name is gigi and i m a fellow with the georgetown institute for technology. i want to thank a couple of folks, the institute for public representation which is part of georgetown law center, the benton foundation the mozilla foundation. also senator blumenthal of connecticut who your be hearing from soon and jamie was a research fellow at georgetown and alexander who is head of the institute for you may have heard she broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping. a shoplifter knocked them over. i was in there the day before. anyway if you could send well wishes to her. also the other georgetown students gathered by andy, panelists helping today with logistics. the me set the stage. in may sinclair ....
abouts and our god dam bodies. [ applause ] this committee on the work force will come to order. welcome to today s hearing. the committee s honored to welcome our distinguished guests, secretary alexander acosta. secretary acosta has been at the helm of the department of labor since april and we re grateful he could join us to testify for the first time since his conformation. mr. secretary, welcome to the committee. we look forward to your testimony which we are sorry did not arrive earlier. and discussing the department of labor s policies and priorities under the new administration. the department of labor s on the front line of the issues facing workers and job creators and it sets policies that have a wide-spread impact on our nation s economy, retirement security and more. where had they relate to health care, retirement planning, or employee wages and benefits, it s the responsibility of this committee to insure these policies are in the best interest of worke ....
jobs that go unanswered and we should be using this to invest invocational education and internship programs and should be investing in community colleges. part of this discussion should be based on the historic vote of long-term investment. we know that is unlikely to happen because when people have a chance to look at these distribution tables, they are going to be furious. i yield to the the gentleman from california, mr. thompson and mr. larson will be acknowledged after that. mr. thompson: it s not often i come down and participate in special orders but i was in my office watching the previous speakers, i started to get wheezey from the spin they were providing from the floor talking about what they say this bill will do. and i can tell you that there were a lot of inaccuracies in some of the things they were trying to convince the american people that would that they would benefit from this. as mr. neal said, this bill, this vote, is an important vote. this is g ....
amendment 233, amendment number 17. i would like to make it clear that the nature of this amendment and the nature of this amendment is to try to follow the advice of about every witness who testified in this room in september about how to stabilize the exchanges. among the three things we should do, make clear that the cost-sharing reductions what upset the cost of co-pays, deductibles. make clear they are not going away for at least two years. they also said that they put in place a reinsurance program. for highly expensive patient care for particular patients. number three, they said we should retain the individual mandate. if we decide not to replace it with something just as effective, getting a good mix of young and healthy people to be part of the insurance pool within the exchanges across the country. the legislation before us apparently repeals proposals to repeal the individual mandate. happens, that would leave us with cost-sharing reduction and no reinsuranc ....