additionally, an estimated 10,000 small businesses nationwide have closed their doors and small business employees have lost $19 billion each year in wages. mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is correct. the house will be in order. members and staff will take their conversations from the floor. the chamber. the gentlelady may proceed. he gentlelady may proceed. the gentlelady will suspend. the house will be in order. mbers of the body and staff, to the chair's left, will take their conversations from the floor. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady may proceed. ms. foxx: thank you. it should come as no surprise since 2008 the share of small businesses with fewer than 10 employees offering health coverage has dropped 36%. it's not that they don't want to, it's that onerous mandates and regulations have made it simply unaffordable to do so. fortunately, relief is on the way. this week we are not only moving to repeal obamacare, we're also advancing positive reforms that promote affordable coverage for working

comes from the small business environment. his parents started a convenience store with gas stations. -- he was wondering if there are -- we used to call them filling stations. and he said yeah, filling stations. vice president pence is as committed as the president is to ensure that we are giving you the support you need. i want him to be able to tell you all about that. applaud loud and strong for our vice president michael pence. [applause] vice pres. pence: hello west virginia. it is great to be back. if only just to say thanks. thanks to your hard work, your support and your prayers. votedirginia overwhelmingly to make donald trump the 45th president of the united states, and we will never forget it. [applause] let me thank our host today, ronald reagan foster and nancy reagan foster. second favorite ron and nancy i have ever met. [applause] want to thank them, i want to thank the whole foster supply team and all the great employees who came out today. you have been building this since 1981. in fact, i just heard that you

if you need assistance with a small business matters start here at the office of small business. thank you >> all right. we are still on the phone with command central. they're not sure who to give the award to. we have to make sure we get the right one. >> okay. there we go. we've got live feed. all rights. item number one call to order and roll call commissioner adams here dooley here dwight here ortiz-cartegena here tour-sarkissian is absent yee-riley, here. zouzounis. mr. pres. you have a quorum >> all right. first item spam 2 general public comments. members of the public to comment generally on matters within the small business commission's jurisdiction but not on today's calendar. and i just knew agenda items for future consideration. discussion item >> before you do public comment minders public comment in his meetings is limited to 3 min. except in the case when we left doing legacy business of the common is 2 min. and if you hear a chime 30 seconds remaining then we'll cut you off at the second time. not to be rude just to be fair to everyone who wants to make public co

[applause] linda mcmahon knows an awful lot about small business. they started their company as a small business back in the 1970's as titan sports. then they built it into an international entertainment enterprise -- the wwe. [applause] vp pence: any fans in the house? i am one. [laughter] vp pence: she is bringing that great business experience to help small businesses across america grow and thrive. linda, we are grateful for your leadership. maybe we could have used a few of your wwe superstars on capitol hill yesterday. [applause] vp pence: give her another round of applause for leading a small business with such great quality. [applause] vp pence: with linda mcmahon, we are listening to small business owners. that has not been happening for a while in washington, d.c. we're been listening like -- join me in thanking all the great small business owners who are gathered here today here in people that make west virginia such a great place to live to work and to raise a family. [applause] vp pence: thank you all. we just had a great conversation.

i know you-all know so many stats relative to small businesses. let me give you a little one about regulatory environment. for every $10,000 of regulation, 3% to 6% of small businesses go out of business. usually less than 20 employees. now, we have just got to do something. we have to have proper regulatorytory environment. that's what president trump wants to do. proper taxes. proper regular another environment. making sure that we're providing our small businesses with the tools that they need to start, to grow, and to be successful. it's my privilege to be here today to say hello to so many of you. and to let you know that i am your advocate at small business administration. i've got your back. i want to hear from you because president trump believes in small businesses. he knows that you are the backbone of our economy. he knows how you contribute to your community. and he is so committed to making small businesses essential focus of his term in office. r terms. it's my pleasure today to introduce vice president michael pence who himself -- h

health insurance over the last five years. 10,000 small businesses thousand small businesses are closed down costing 300,000 jobs across because of obamacare. this is just part of phase three with which were moving right now. thursday will be a big day. thursday will be the day we keep our word that we will repeal and replace and continue on with phase two, and phase three. >> it was great to welcome president trump to our conference this morning and for weeks now president trump has gotten directly engaged in negotiating with our members and he reached out, bring me your best ideas and you saw every element of our conference come together and bring those ideas, everybody from republicans, took to the group members, to freedom caucus members who came forward and president trump brought those ideas together and we agreed in the package we brought together last night to add all of those to the bill. elements that make it better for families. at the heart of this is the acknowledgment from president trump to all of us that obamacare has failed the american people. i think it's important to

so if you need assistance with small business matters start here.est all our services are free of charge the san francisco small business commission is the public forum to voices our concerns of policies that effect small businesses if you need assistance start at the office of the small business commission thank you item 8 adjournment action item i motion we adjourn. >> i second motion by president adams and seconded by commissioner >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? okay. that that motion carries 6 to zero one absent and the the meeting is adjourned at the 640. >> so be it (laughter) gavel down >>

i'm just a small town guy from southern indiana. my grandfather immigrated to this country and to think i had the privilege to raise my right hand on january 20th and accept the oath of office to serve as 48th vice president of the united states is the greatest privilege of my life. let me just say on behalfofmy whole family, thank you, west virginia, for giving us the opportunity to serve. it is the greatest privilege of my life to be vice president to president donald trump. president trump is my friend. he loves his family. he loves this country with boundless energy, optimism, courage, and determination and let me be clear on one thing. president donald trump is going to be the best friend american small business will ever have. that's why you pick linda mcmahon to lead the small business administration. isn't she amazing? linda mcmahon knows an awful lot about small business. they started company as a small business back in the 1970s. as titan sports and then built into international entertainment enterprise, the wwe. any fans

a small business family, actually, in a small town in southern indiana. a gas station business. i was a -- i started working as a gas station attendant at one of my father's gas stations when i was only 14 years of age. and for you young people in the room, we'll explain later what a gas station attendant actually used to do. as the whole world knows, the president also grew up in a family business too. we actually both know, because of our life experiences in our families, we know the sacrifices that are required to make a business work. and more importantly, we know that when small business is strong, america is strong. and president trump is going to fight for small business america, just as he's done from day one. we want to create jobs and prosperity and growth in america like never before. and small business is going to be the lion's share of that. just look at what the president has already done. on day one, president trump went straight to work. rolling back reams of red tape. he has instructed literally every agency in washington, d.c. to find two regulations to get rid

a small businessman like me, exactly right. it is just shifting the burden, will help the economy grow, we are helping poor people a lot and folks like me, my healthcare went up my healthcare is probably going to go down and poor people at healthcare goes up. they will need to get an extra job to pay for healthcare. arthel: poor people get medicaid and i point to one of the taxes that will go away, the medical device tax, in three years, destroyed about 29,000 jobs out of the commerce the payment, 7% of all medical technology jobs in the country. >> not just 20,000s of destroyed now that is an industry that needed to look at the future with engineering jobs, students going into engineering to go to the medical device industry and what are the consequences of that, because of this tax that was put through obamacare. it may not be a direct jobs bill in the sense that it might not create growth right away but when you look at the other implications this will have if this can get hot limited healthcare costs down and it premiums do

small businesses have an important stake in who fills justice antonin scalia's seat. nfib is pleased to support the nomination of judge gorsuch to the u.s. supreme court. thank you. >>> thank you very much. our next witness is the former deputy assistant attorney general. >> thank you very much for inviting me to speak today. i am an attorney with more than 20 years experience implementing the laws protecting the rights of people with disabilities. i have serious concerns about judge gorsuch's approach to and support of america's disabilities civil rights laws. people with disabilities have long experienced what former president and then candidate george w. bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations. unfortunately, judge gorsuch bakes these low expectations into his disability rights jurisprudence in spite of bipartisan attempts to disen mantle such prejudices. troubling not just for devastating human consequences but for dismissiveness of the law as established by congress. individuals with disabilities act, education act requires public schools to ensure free

from the heart. >> like many entrepreneurs, she started small. baking batches of cookies at home and selling to friends and family. it kind of came her main focal point. it made her feel good and there was no rejection there. >> feeling comfort in the quality of her amazing cooky, she approached her local boston supermarket, the golden goose and asked if they would sell her cookies. >> she was a customer of ours and she's a nice girl so we said, yeah, we'll sell your okies. >> with a smalltream of orders and shelf space, the cookies was now a real business with paying customers. >> at this point making three or four dozen a week for the market. then we built her a website and she started selling website with people. she was doing mail orders, but not much. then everything changed. >> she hit the local news here in boston. we got thousands and thousands of orders. everybody that came in here found the shelf empty because we couldn't keep on the demand. with such a large influx of orders, the golden goose offered her use of the kitchen. rosemary an

the second will provide small business fairness act we talked about letting small businesses pulled together but we also talk about crossing the state line that allows small businesses to pool together and go across state lines. i opened my first business when i was 19-years-old. three lessons you learn is working the first and last to be paid. you want to be able to provide the health care for them but you are at a disadvantage between the big companies and small ones. why don't we let the businesses pulled together to drive the strength of? because obamacare regulation has actually made it worse. so much of what we talked about isn't about health care. what about the 30 hour work week and those designated in the small business? they've reported increase for veterans the last five years and 10,000 small businesses closed down under obamacare. this is just part of what we are moving right now but there is a is a big day that we keep our word we will repeal and replace the continuum of phase two and phase three. it was great to welcome the president of the conference this morning. for weeks n

you are shaking your head. >> we are tking a small amount of businesses. the rule has to be set somewhere. it's not that hard to figure out how many employees you have that are working more than 30 hours a week. again, we haven't heard anything from small businesses about the problem. what we have heard about is the fact that so many millions and millions of businesses and employees are about to lose coverage they have gotten the last couple years. >> unfortunately, we have to stop there. thank you both for diving into the details. i appreciate you staying focused on how it affects small and medium business owners. thanks again. >> thank you. >> thanks, j.j. >>> hi, i'm from karma organics, this is my wife. i used to get a pedicure done, but i get sick on the smells, so i said, hmm,maybe i'll open a salon with no chemicals. then i started creating my line of nail polish and nail polish remover. everything is made in america. it's vegan and very safe for pregnant women, people with asthma allergy and little princess. try one of those for you. this is the on

the of the small businesses in the county of san francisco. county of san francisco. so if you need assistance with small business matters start here. best of all our services are free of charge so if you need assistance, start at the office of the small business commission. thank you. the unofficial public forum to voice our thinks outside the box e opinions about the policies in soft story building if you need assistance start here at the office of the small business commission thank you. >> all right. okay item one call to order and roll call. commissioner vice president adams is absent commissioner dooley commissioner president dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner tour-sarkissian commissioner yee-riley commissioner zouzounis mr. president, comboum >> outstanding item 2 the commission's future consideration. (discussion item.) do we have any of the members of the public that wants to comment on things not on today's agenda public comment is closed. >> item 3 approval of legacy business registry application and resolutions. discu

two features of glen park a small home on a small lot from the table the smaller the lot the smaller the building habitable space which is what the assessor-recorder and uses the lot size is only 5 had had prosecute plus square feet so the project is learn the average sized home in the city and larger had an the average size in the immediate neighborhood at the same time the project lot size is much smaller than the city and neighborhood this tells us the building is two large for the lot and two large for the neighborhood a neighborhood that is defined by small buildings i support the drs requested change and ask for a size that represents reassembling is the homes - thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> again liberty hill i have a graphic here this is policy one .5 of the glen park plan glen park village height should be loithsz to the pattern down there the interior occur that comblerp is two or three building has a comfortable pedestrian environment the vision to the height districts that reduces the maximum height only blocks should be catered out to reflect the e

finally they thought with direct election the small state would never have a president. this is due to poor communication, poor transportation and they weren't assuming political parties so they figured people in large states would vote for their candidates. if you came from massachusetts you vote for john hancock, the small states would never have a president and the others would vote for mason. you won't have the president picked directly by the people. you have state legislatures deciding how their chosen and assume the electors would exercise independent judgment. then they portioned the electoral college so the south gets greater clout than they would in an election and the small states have a greater opportunity to elect someone. as you know, the number of house numbers plus the number of senators is the number. virginia is the largest state. it has 12 times the population of delaware. there are ten virginia representatives but in the electoral college, you add your senators to your house members which means there are 12 electors from virginia and three from delawa

on small business imposed. thankfully i was able to work with several other small practices to create the advanced urology institute, a 47-physician practice with over 400 employees and offices throughout north florida. cooperation and pooling of our resources allowed our practice to reduce costs and to better serve our patients. my experience underscores why the small business health fairness act is so crucial. this small business health fairness act allows small businesses to operate under the purchasing health insurance for their employees. by joining together across state lines through associations, small businesses can achieve the economies of scale enjoyed by big businesses and unions when purchasing health care. it will empower small businesses to purchase better plans at a lower cost which means working families can get the care they need at a price they can afford. it's time to put small business employees on a level playing field with those of large businesses and those in unions. the health insurance

compared to the other awards shown as a aquarian to the vacate of small businesses the vacant of small businesses in this particular chart is a reflection of the businesses in the city and county of san francisco small businesses database along with information that we gather if wards that is actually been priority to us by the developers and contractors so again, the significance is really to show a aquarian where the distributions of dollars are in line this is, of course, by no means a disparities studies that is by staff in terms of gaming where dollars are provided by no means again, this is not intend to be a disparity study for any race conscious ever endeavors i believe in the discommission meeting december 20th buffs an interest in looking at the distribution firms are by zip code and i mean, i'll briefing tripod that the top 5 zip codes were businesses that recede and awarded contract micro one 07 constitutes 18 percent and the next is 11 percent and 9414 is approximately 10 percent and 05, 9 percent and 94 is 1, 6 percent that constitutes 65 percent of the awarded for this.

i want to bring in a woman that knows small businesses well, head of the small business administrationnder president trump and the co-founder of world wrestling entertainment. health care reform was clearly a focus, and many small business owners said under obamacare they could not hire or grow and needed deregulation in order for their businesses to take it to the next level. we have already seen small business sentiment spike up in a positive way since the election, and what is it about trump's policies that has small business owners so enthused? >> thank you, and great to be here, and happy national women's day, and it's a beautiful day here in the nation's capital. i think small businesses are so encouraged by president trump because he is a businessman and he wants to make sure small businesses have the opportunity to grow, and they are the backbone of our economy. we have so many of our small businesses that are creating jobs, but what they lack is access to capital, and they are buried under regulation, and part of which is obamacare, and i have heard from many of them the incre

making a difference between success and growth and -- ore or being small staying small. from our perspective, the executive order was not done in a way that allows for legal immigration of people into the country in a way that wasn't confusing. it was good to see that the order was changed to allow green cardholders and others that have been in the united states building amazing applications to come in. the reason we spoke out as we was notthe little guy getting hurt. >> is it important to have people side-by-side? morgan: many of our companies do an anonymous amount of virtual work. if we are looking at a development model. you will bring together a small team to solve a problem. and you bring them together -- you bring them together to solve a problem. i want to white board the problem or prevent cash or present solutions -- i want to whiteboard the problem and present solutions. virtual working is amazing, but sometimes you have to have face-to-face. tech companies decide to -- --se so they are concerned do you feel that they may hit back with things that may negative

it's very small. it represents a small population and a small amount of caseloads.

like their larger counterparts, small businessowners want and need certainty. they need bright line easy to understand legal standards. if small businesses don't know what is expected of them, what the rules of the game are, they may be hesitant to undertake actions that otherwise would help their business grow. judge gorsuch takes seriously his obligation to provide that clarity whenever possible. judge gorsuch also has demonstrated that he truly respects and seeks to protect the separation of powers among the branches of government. this is important because nfib is concerned about what we see as the rising tide of regulation promulgated by an elected bureaucrat. this trend over the last 30 years contravenes the fundamental principle that only congress as the elected and politically accountable legislative branch should be able to enact and change statutory law. when it comes to regulations, small businesses bear a disproportionate amount of the regulatory burden compared to their larger counterparts. that is not surprising since it's the small businessowner,

what i found after literally visiting hundreds of small farmers and small businesses across the country, mostly in rural areas, that they had the same problem. at first i thought, maybe i'm looking through my prism, maybe i'm listening to my own self and i'm not listening to them, but for sure when i heard the stories about folks trying to sell, when there was only one buyer, that is a problem. i heard stories of these unforgiving obstacles and anti-competitive logistics of distribution. anti-competitive distribution and methodologies about pricing and bundling. market manipulation. what people do in the trade association or trade group world where the little guys don't have a seat at the table, so the regulations are made by the big guys. sometimes, many times, i checked myself in my five years thinking, maybe i'm not the best person to know this because i lived it. and the number two or the person in charge of capital markets who i had never met before, she and i happened to testify at a hearing for the small business committee on duplication or something like that, and after the hear

what i found after literally visiting hundreds of small farmers and small businesses across the country, mostly in rural areas, that they had the same problem. at first i thought, maybe i'm looking through my prism, maybe i'm listening to my own self and i'm not listening to them, but for sure when i heard the stories about folks trying to sell, when there was only one buyer, that is a problem. i heard stories of these unforgiving obstacles and anti-competitive logistics of distribution. anti-competitive distribution and methodologies about pricing and bundling. market manipulation. what people do in the trade association or trade group world where the little guys don't have a seat at the table, so the regulations are made by the big guys. sometimes, many times, i checked myself and my five years thinking, maybe i'm not the best person to know this because i lived it. and the number two or the person in charge of capital markets who i had never met before, she and i happened to testify at a hearing for the small business committee on duplication or something like that, and after the hea

i'm talking about the small business community all over.t don't get in our way. >> they want to hire people. that's the sentiment coming out of this town. they want to hire people. and they say that they've been prevented from doing so because they've been buried under regulations and red tape. they are very proud of this small town as people throughout the midwest are. many people still ask, why did these particular states go for mr. trump? last night in that opera house in pemberville, they wanted to hear what mr. trump was saying and they all appear to realize how divided washington seems to be. and one question from here is why can't people come over here to the coffee shop, have a cup of coffee and work it out just like they do in small town america? guys? >> amen. kevin tibbles and harry smith with a look at what folks were saying after that speech last night. i tell you, any time you can talk to harry smith and kevin tibbles on televisionha a good day for me. >> guysit sweaters on. >> let's do it again tomorrow. i'll wear my sweater

so he need assistance with small business matters, are here at the office of small business. thank you. >> we have a motion to adjourn commissioners >> yes. i like your motion a motion to adjourn today in honor of resident mark dwight's birthday. >> happy birthday. [laughing] >> if nobody seconds were not going anywhere. all right. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. that motion passes 5-0, two absent in the meeting is adjourned at 3:14 pm. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >> >>[gavel] >> good morning welcome to the san francisco transportation authority meeting for today february 28, 2017. mr. clerk please call the roll call >> item one roll call breed present cohen present, farrell absent, fewer here,

that allows people -- there are 18 million people in the individual and small group market. that would allow those individuals to purchase coverage and get the purchasing power of millions. haas thuge -- that's huge power and authority that we want to put in the hands of people and put in the hands of patients. some of that may require legislation. >> mr. speaker, thank you. two question -- mr. secretary. thank you. first, congressman john katko of new york said the issue of denying federal funds to planned parenthood should be separate from whatever health care bill emerges from congress and is signed into law by the president. is that the administration's position as well? my second question is this. you mentioned earlier the people who had their health care plans canceled when they thought they cowl keep it. i believe in your state of georgia, more than a million people had that experience. will some of the plans that were canceled be able to come back under the new health care plan? secretary price: in terms of planned parenthood, we think it's important that the legisla

>> yes, so we have a small enrollment that is happening in may. and that is to, take on into the service offering, everybody who raised their hands city wide already, so the waiting list we are bringing the waiting list into the program. and we are also going to bring in to the program, some of the net energy metering customers in districts, 5, 8, and 10, and because this is a good time of year, to enroll customer whose have solar on their roofs. and so we are going to take that is and those customers again that is a small enrollment and then he after we get direction from our commissioner on the growth plan s when we will be able to answer the question of what is next? the whole rest of the city, some increment of the city? you know? what is the pace of enrollment going forward? and that is what the groerth plan is intended to answer. >> great. >> when do you present the plan to the commission? >> yes, we are presenting the target is to present the plan in late april and, early may and then we will be looking to work with your executive officer t

of going to cincinnati to a small business roundtable. one of the small business owners said he had 18 employees last year at this time. this year, he has 15 employees. not because he does not have the work, but because of the cost of health coverage for those individuals. it forced him to let three people go. they are being forced to let three people go because the federal government has put in place rules and regulations that make it impossible for folks to provide coverage for their employees. this is a system that is not working for people. if we focus on the patients, i will call it patientcare, if we focus on the patients, we look at the right answer. >> major complaint of conservatives is phase one of the obamacare repeal and replace is it is missing a measure that would allow health care to be sold across state lines. the president said this morning that that would be in either phase two or three. is that something that you believe the president can do through executive action, and then you yourself could do? or is that something

when small business is strong, america is strong.m: vice president mike pence assuring small business owners president trump is committed to stirring economic growth. the president was in cincinnati. what do you think he was hearing from small business owners what needs to happen now that president has taken steps to released burned they face to get them to the next part which is to grow them? >> the key issues for small business owners that we comekd out a -- that we checked out a couple months oh go was the healthcare fix, and number two is the cost of come plying with regulation, red tape and thanks code complexity. the fact that the taxes took away the capital they use to grow their firms. the tax code changes all the time, so it costs them a lot. money just to send money to the government. they probably heard about the changes that are going to be planned for those things. adam: jeff, you are the former ceo for the trump campaign. i can't tell you how many small business owners came up to me talking about how they had to close t

this will make it easier to open our small business. this will open and we asked for support from this committee in 2014 we open this business portal as supervisor tang mentioned and this would include all the operations for a small business to turn to and we tried to make it less about how government talks and more about plain speech. and then small businesses could understand and know what they need to do to comply with the roles. you will hear from jason everly from in a moment from the department of technology to speak to the work that has been done today and the key data on what the outcomes on the program are and some game changing functionality in the business portal over the next year so technology can only go so far and the streaming effort that is planned would pair the business portal with a personal touch. and, through the small business acceleration program that supervisor tang you have been such a strong advocate for the project manager who we will invite up in a moment to speak to this the goal is to have a partner for th

small business is the engine of our economy. and you know every job created, i mean every business that is started creates a job. more people are the in workforce by start-ups not by maintenance or small businesses or medium sized businesses but it is the start-ups. we've been happy to see more startups because we've been on the decline the past few years. we've seen the renewed optimism in the economy is that we're seeing more startups and sba is really supporting that. trish: david lewis was making the point a lot of these policies have not yet kicked in. so some of this growth is based on psychology but i tell you need sentiment, you need animal spirits to be unleashed if you would in this economy if you ever want to get to the next stage. so how important is it that people are suddenly more optimistic? and how critical you say we start to get something in the way of headlight care reform and tax reform soon? >> well, i'll tell you, entrepreneurs by definition are risk-takers, however, they have to manage their downside. so i

i grew up in a small business family in columbus, indiana. i went to work at my father's gas station when i was 14 years of age. i was actually what they call a gas station attendant. if you are under the age of 30, i will explain to you after the program exactly what that was. the president also grew up in a family business too. we both know the sacrifices required to make a business work, and more importantly, we know that when small business is strong, america is strong, and this president will fight every day to make that a reality. [applause] vice-pres. pence: president trump wants to help you, once to help you become stronger than ever before. he made a promise to you and the american people, and this white house is in the promise keeping business. just look at what we have done over the past month and a half. on day one, president trump went to work, instructing every agency of the federal government to find two regulations to get rid of before issuing any new regulations on job creators in america. [applause] vice-pres. pence: the pre

since 2008 the number of small banks has declined 30%. the dramatic increase in regulation following the financial crisis has been a major driving force in the decline of these banks. dodd-frank alone has resulted in 22,000 pages of new regulations. while large banks can hire armies of complaints officers whose sole purpose is to ensure they meet the ever-growing number of regulations it increases the cost of doing business for community banks leaving some not to engage in some forms of lending were simply due to the time and costs involved. our community banks are key funding sources for small business owners entrepreneurs farmers and ranchers across the country many of them can't qualify for traditional loans. they provide approximately half of all loans to small businesses by reforming the predator system so that sufficient effective and appropriately tailored for treating these critical institutions in our communities the same as banks that have exponentially more in assets enabling them to engage more with small businesses and entrep

especially for small businesses like heidi said and small states. the googles and facebooks of the world can offer generous plans. but for a small business with just a fi employees, even 50 employees, they can't afford to double pay, pay the leave and replacement worker. if you have a national insurance plan they can bring in the worker a few months and the salary is paid by the fund they invested in, the insurance plan. >> in illinois, 90% of employers are small businesses. over 95% are small businesses. they're the ones needed the most. >> thank you all for coming. i really appreciate it. >>> coming up on c-span3, a senate hearing on k-1 visa fraud. the british house of commons and after that a look at the medicare independent payment advisory board. and later, legal scholars consider the record of supreme court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. >>> k-1 visas allow a foreigner who is engaged to usa resident to become a u.s. resident and green cardholder. the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on fraud. this is an hour and 50 minutes.

it is very uncommon for that to happen in a small community.something that you get here. >> reporter: a community heart-broken. >> now to think something could have happened here in our own town, it's scary. >> i think everybody is just ready to know what happened and why and who did this. >> reporter: two families, reeling. >> it's the small things that seem to hurt the most. it's just natural to holler for them to come to dinner, or in the mornings to get up and get ready for school. then, expect them to come through the door after school. the silence, when we don't hear their voice. >> reporter: officers combing through thousands of tips. authorities not revealing information about how the teens died, but releasing this chilling audio they believe to be the killer. >> down the hill. down the hill. >> we think there's enough there that somebody would recognize that voice, and we want that person to call us. >> it's always easier to crack a case earlier, witnesses are fresh, you're getting tips early on and you hope the person might still be i

there are 18 million folks in that individual and small business government. that would give them the purchasing power of millions. that's huge four and authority that we want to put into the hands of people, of patients. some of that may in fact require legislation. yes, sir. >> mr. secretary, thank you. two questions. first, congressman john faso of new york has said that the issue of denying federal funds to planned parenthood should be separate from whatever health care bill finally emerges from congress and is signed into law by the president. is that the administration's position as well? and my second question is this, you mentioned earlier the people who had their health care plans canceled when they thought they could keep it. i believe in your state of georgia more unanimous a million people had that experience. will some of the plans that were canceled be able to come back under the new health care plan? >> yeah, in terms of planned parenthood, we think it's important that t legislature work its will on this process. it's incredibly important that w