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Only 16 states run their own exchanges. The federal government runs extend his for the remaining 34 states that opted out of setting up their own. The court is expected to rule on the case before the end of the term in june. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Well hear arguments this morning in case 14114, king v. Burwell. Mr. Carvin. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, this is a straightforward case of statutory construction where the plain language of the statute dictates the result. Mr. Carvin, will you please back up, because before we get to a question of statutory construction, as you know, each plaintiff, or at least one plaintiff, has to have a concrete stake in these questions. They cant put them as ideological questions. And we have as four plaintiffs. As to two of them, there is a declaration stating i am not eligible for Health Insurance from the government, but theres a question of whether they are veterans ....
Justice, youve got to make sure that youre also taking advantage of the opportunities that you currently have. But that brings me to one last piece of advice for young people, and that is, think about more than just yourself. [applause] think about how you can have an impact beyond yourself. The people who i know who are really happy and successful as they get older, its because they have an impact on something other than just their own situation. Theyre not just thinking about how do i get mine. [applause] theyre thinking about how does everybody get their fair share. And when they do that, that gives meaning to your life; that gives purpose to your life; that gives you influence and a sense of purpose. And youve got to have a sense of purpose beyond just the almighty dollar. I mean, look, we live in a free market society, and one of the things that sets america apart is business and entrepreneurship and hustle, and folks are out there just theyre trying to make a new product or creat ....
The federalism values are promoted by our interpretation because if that is, indeed, what a state thought, if a state really would have preferred that not to have the State Government participate in the implementation of this act, for reasons that your honor identified, the structure of the act that congress put in place and that were advocating for today fully vindicates that concern. They can decide not to participate without having any adverse consequences visited upon the citizens of the state. And thats why our reading is the profederalism reading. Its their reading that seems to me that is the antifederalism reading, and thats a powerful reason to reject it. And if i could go to the second statutory point, which is related to what were talking about, Justice Kennedy, which is section 1321, says that this statute is designed to afford state flexibility. State flexibil ....
Legislature can do, which Means Congress can also give this power to the commission. The only difference between my friends scenario and mine is that in my friends scenario the state legislature would retain the authority to override what the commission has done but that is always the consequence of state legislation over federal legislation. Its not something that a state legislature can override and it is simply a consequence of congress superseding authority and congress authority under the elections clause. Scalia the second clause is being used to revise the first clause. That is what we are talking about. The second clause can congress can do something on its own. But can congress use the second clause to revise what the first clause says . Feigin one thing i want to emphasize is i think the court settle this issue in hildebrandt when it said it was simply doing something that the constitution expressly gave the right to do. ....
Preview on this weekss action in the senate. We turn to neil, a frequent guest at the washington journal joining us. Good morning to you. John i want to talk about the iran deal that is going on and the bill that was expected to be on the floor this week in the senate and then got pulled. What is going on there . Niels what has happened with the floor schedule was we had anticipated that on tuesday, the senate would attempt to hold a vote on picking up a measure sponsored by the Foreign Relations chairman bob corker of tennessee that would require the administration to send any sort of agreement that may be reached with the iranians over their Nuclear Program to capitol hill for a sixtyday period to allow congress to weigh in on any sort of agreement. What happened was, a number of Democratic Senators who had su ....