h.h.s. secretary to ride the train. riding the train is apparently beneath the e.p.a. administrator. here is a good rule of thumb. if you are spending more on private jets that most american families are making in one year, you are spending too much. tom price has enough time to jet around the country but not enough time for millions of kids who will lose chip coverage. very little to help people sign up for health insurance. that's unacceptable. secretary price says he needs to fly around on his jets to connect with ordinary citizens. i'm not kidding. his press secretary told reporters that these junkets were getting outside of d.c. making sure he is connected with the real american people. mr. speaker, here's how you really connect with your fellow americans, don't take a private plane, buy a seat in coach. of course, we should have seen this coming. news reports revealed when he was a member of congress, price was introducing legislation to invest in his personal investment and traded on

h.h.s. this is a partnership across the federal government, it's a partnership through all levels of government, all the way down to the citizens that we saw proactively step forward in harvey. we're going to need that same whole-community approach today. with me is secretary price. i'd like to turn it over to him for a few words about health and medical issues. mr. price: thanks, brock. any time in an emergency you want to make certain you have the best people coordinating. i can tell that you the american people couldn't be more proud of the folks at fema and the leadership that brock long and his team are giving. i want to share a few words about harvey and then turn to irma. in terms of harvey, we remain in the response and recovery efforts that continue. the life-saving activities are transferring to life-sustaining activities. still have about 16,000 people in shelter, from a health standpoint, there are four hospitals that is remain closed . this comes down from a high of about 30 hos

sarah: specific to h.h.s. they have spoken about this issue previously. i don't believe the president saw the secretary at any point today. reporter: does the president believe there has been a mind-set that has allowed cabinet members to feel empowered to take jet flights when they are going on official travel? you have the h.h.s. secretary and e.p.a. administrator and the secretary treasure on a private jet. is there something that the president has said or done to set this tone that this is ok? sarah: no. the president has made clear by stating that he is not thrilled with the airplane use at this point. eporter: the extent of the review process into secretary price and others. [indiscernible] sarah: for h.h.s. they are conducting an interm review and i.g. review. the white house is looking at more of an overall, not specific to that department because there are two reviews taking place there. reporter: the president said he would donate personal funds to harvey relief. is he making any personal donations to puerto rico? sarah: he didn't make a donatio

h.h.s. secretary to join this event today and to raise awareness about a key public health issue. vaccines are among the greatest public health achievements of modern times. but they're only as useful as we, as a society, take advantage of them. so i'm thankful for the work of c.d.c. and nfid and our panelists today in shedding some sunlight on this topic. that has a major impact on the health of our nation every single year and that is as dr. schafter mentioned, influenza. i'd like to remind everyone about the burden that flu puts on the american people and our families and our communities. i'd like to discuss the current situation with regard to flu vaccines, explain a little bit about the larger context of influenza and the potential for pandemics, and most importantly, as the doctor mentioned as well, encourage everyone six months and older to make flu vaccination part of their yearly routine. let's start with what influenza is. it's not a simple couple of days at home with a runny nose.

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there was the fact that he kept flying on even more private jet flights, even after his staff at h.h.s. started leaking about this habit of his basically to try to blow the whistle on it after the first reports came out, he kept taking more private flights. again, charging them to the taxpayers instead of flying commercial. new reporting today while tom price was advocating a huge cut to the budget of his agency while he was promoting cuts to federally supported health care with tens of millions of americans off their health insurance, he was simultaneously arguing up the chain in the trump administration that he would really like to reopen the executive private dining room at h.h.s. so in addition to all his private jets, he could also have a private executive chef. seriously. for this administration, the story was unsustainable. today they unaccunsuccessfully to stop the bleeding. you might have heard the house secretary issued this apology. did you actually see it? did you see the text of it? if you had laid eyes on what his actual apology said, you might have had an early inkling r

about congressman scalise returning to congress, but watch what happens when he was asked about his h.h.s. secretary. >> price says he has your confidence. is that true? mr. president? >> reporter: now, that was president trump earlier today essentially not answering a question as to whether he had confidence in h.h.s. secretary tom price. now, of course, tom price came ou today saying that he will reimburse taxpayers for every cent of his travel on those price. if you want to put a price tag on it, politico reports it cost $300,000 for the full charter flight. if you look at his statement, he is going to repay for his seat, his portion of that travel. a spokesperson today said that put the price tag somewhere in the area of $52,000. back to you. >> all right, still a lot of money. that was a pretty glaring walk away from the president. blayne, thanks so much. >> back here at the live desk, we are getting some breaking news. neighbors say she was holding her child when she was stabbed to death. we are now hearing from d.c. police that they have made an arrest in the case of 31-year-old pa

system we have and replace it with medicare for all last brian darling and sam sex just a moment and h.h.s. secretary tom price has resigned from the trumpet ministration after his private jet scandal but don't celebrate just yet the swamp is still bubbling over with monsters more on that with holon cook the next host of this program the big picture later on in the program. conservatives supposedly hate freeloaders so why do they support right to work laws which literally legalize in fact require freeloading the test of big picture panel joining me now are brian darling contributor to conservative review and sam sax writer and co-founder of the district news cooperative thank you both for being here with it's great having you guys so our nation so. republicans failed to repeal obamacare but they might still succeed in throwing the health care system into chaos even though it's been on the calendar for months congress has done nothing about the impending saturday deadline for reauthorizing the children's health insurance program or chip nine million kids depend on chip to get coverage with

h.h.s. secretary to ride the train. riding the train is apparently beneath the e.p.a. administrator. here is a good rule of thumb. if you are spending more on private jets that most american families are making in one year, you are spending too much. tom price has enough time to jet around the country but not enough time for millions of kids who will lose chip coverage. very little to help people sign up for health insurance. that's unacceptable. secretary price says he needs to fly around on his jets to connect with ordinary citizens. i'm not kidding. his press secretary told reporters that these junkets were getting outside of d.c. making sure he is connected with the real american people. mr. speaker, here's how you really connect with your fellow americans, don't take a private plane, buy a seat in coach. of course, we should have seen this coming. news reports revealed when he was a member of congress, price was introducing legislation to invest in his personal investment and traded on

over the past two years, democrats on the labor-h.h.s. subcommittee have worked with tom cole to increase the budgets by $2 billion. but this amendment is fundamentally flawed because it slashes $120 million from the c.m.s. program management. keep in mind, the c.m.s. program management account is already cut by $524 million. that's a 13% cut. this amendment would increase that cut to more than 16%. according to h.h.s., over 14 million americans will rely on programs administered by c.m.s., medicare, medicaid, chip and the exchanges. why would you support more than $600 million in cuts to the medicare, medicaid and chip program. slashing their budgets is certain to harm americans on a daily basis. this will harm the seniors, the blind, low and middle-income families, children with isabilities like end-stage reenal disease. these programs face historic growth, a cut of $644 million to its administrative budget would open up the program to mismanagement fraud and abuse. i urge members to oppose the amendment and i yield back. mr. cole: i yi

of course, price had been talking about as h.h.s.retary, had championed big cuts in federal spending proposed by the trump administration and had talked about bringing efficiency to h.h.s. >> so, john, we just listed these four other cabinet members now who had been identified as using private charter jets to go somewhere. are they in trouble, too? >> well, earlier today, one of those cabinet secretaries, ryan zinke of interior, said he had done nothing wrong. >> the flights were only booked after extensive due diligence by the career professionals, the department's general law and ethics division. >> there are inspector generals investigations going on at epa into scott pruitt, treasury secretary and steven mnuchin. the white house laid down the law, no more private chartered planes until they've had a chance to review this whole thing. >> woodruff: we don't know whether other cabinet or subcabinet members may have been engaged in the same thing? >> that's exactly right. the white house said they were not involved in these decisions

and menendez, according to prosecutors, met with medicare and of get ecretary of h.h.s., to reimbursement policy changed. injujury won't hear, he was million of $90 medicaid fraud. host: the prosecutors have said that rt they frame today the senator, senator menendez was the personal senator of this doctor. ow did the senator's lawyers defend him? guest: so they said that the word and down to his that word is friendship. their argument is that menendez malgin are friends, their friendship predates his time in attended family outings and talked on the phone things time and all the that they each did for each other were out of friendship. no quid quo pro, when they did prosecutors were cherry picking handful of actions that took and twisting them to make them seem as if they were on behalf of a single individual. in each case, they argue that soundez was acting out of policy reason and not necessarily for malgin's interests. this taking place and is the senator in the courtroom? in newark his is nfederal court there. senator menendez was there will be there pretty much everyday. the dicated

. >> there will be no private air charters at h.h.s. going forward. >> reporter: but the president was apparently unsuede by price's promise to reimburse the government $52,000, a fraction of the more than $400,000 price tag. >> that's unacceptable to me. >> reporter: price's relationship with the president was already strained. as secretary of health and human services, he was a point man on the failed attempt to repeal obamacare. >> by the way, you going to get the votes? otherwise, i'll say, "tom, you're fired!" >> reporter: price's travel problems have led to new scrutiny of other cabinet members, including steven mnuchin, scott pruitt, and ryan zinke. >> every time i tl the travel plan to the ethi department that evaluates it line by line to make sure that i am above the law. >> reporter: price becomes the ninth top trump administration official to either step down or get fired. and going back to congress is not an option for him, least for now, because his replacement was chosen, anthony, in a superb election this summer. >> mason

over at the department of education and at labor and h.h.s. and make certain that they are saving that one penny out of a dollar. ecause we hit a pretty dubious marker this week, our national debt now is at $20 trillion. and because of this, because of the responsibility that we have to children, to our grandchildren, to future generations, because we realize as admiral mullin said on july 6, 2010, the greatest threat to our nation's security is our nation's debt. we need to do a little bit more. and of course there are always good programs we can stand here and talk about. and talk about what will not be funded if we do a penny on a dollar. but the important thing to realize is future generations, my grandchildren, that are now 8 and 9 years old, they are paying for programs that we are refusing to address the growth in these programs. we are committing money they have not earned. taxes they have not paid. because we are $20 trillion in debt. it is time to make these changes and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady rese

division f, the labor, hrment h.h.s. and education -- h.h.s. and education section. when i was on the floor yesterday i talked about how proud i was of the work we've done here together. this annual appropriations process has been conducted in a more comprehensive fashion this year than in any year in my memory. jammed, you end up with one of those long-term, year-long continuing resolutions that shut out every member's voice. in a good year maybe you end up with one of those giant leadership-negotiated, white house and the leader of the house and the senate omnibus appropriations bills that shut out all but two or three voices. but this year, this year the appropriations committee, beginning its work way back in april, has worked through every ngle appropriations bill one by one at the committee level and we're seeing the culmination of that effort here on the floor today. mr. speaker, the been since 2010 that the house has finished its work before the september 30 fiscal year deadline. it was a 2009 calendar year. they were doing the work for the 2010 fiscal year.

this was done through the general budget at the department of h.h.s. and i think secretary price addressed this over the weekend. they're kicting both an internal and an i.g. review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that's completed. reporter: if i can get the white house's take now on that travel, since he said it wasn't approved ahead of time. is it ever appropriate for a cabinet official to spend taxpayer money on private planes and private planes differentiate from say military? sarah: i think there are certain instances where it probably is. but i think that has to be done in a case by case by a sifments i'm not going to give a blanket statement on hypothetical situations that i couldn't possibly be aware of. reporter: is the white house looking back on that, do you you a provide -- approve of that travel? sarah: the white house again, that travel wouldn't have gone through the white house for approval. i couldn't speak to that. reporter: two immigration-related questions. do you anticipate a refugee announcement in the ne

tom price, the h.h.s.ry said today he has the confidence of the president despite those charter flights. you saw the president's reaction. and now you see him talking to newt gingrich and others. when monica asked him "do you still have confidence in tom price?" and he turned and walked off. >> it speaks volumes, the president had an opportunity to say something positive and he didn't. it's great to see congressman scalise back after what happened to him. i think everyone welcomes him back to the white house. >> that's all for . chris jansing takes over. >> good afrnoon. i'm chris jansing in for craig melvin. two top stories to lead off with, the latest on the humanitarian crisis in puerto rico, which is affecting millions of americans. democrats are asking for more action after the president lifted a restriction on nonamerican ships delivering aid. those affected say the aid is still not getting to those who quickly need it. and

they want to do -- i had 80 health and human services doctors and medics h.h.s. and the next day another 80 at the coliseum and stood there for two days waiting for their marching orders. they are great people. their commanding officers were experienced people. profession people, committed people. they are just waiting for the orders to start moving, and we need -- this isn't an issue of being poetic. or trying to paint a picture of something horrific. this is a call to action, a plea for this help that is right here to get moving and get to where it supposed to be. >> san juan mayor carmen julian cruz, i really, really appreciate the time you took to talk to us. we will do whatever we can to echo and enlarge what you are saying. please keep us apprised. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. all right. wow. more ahead here tonight, stay with us. (sigh) ( ♪ ) dad: molly! trash! ( ♪ ) whoo! ( ♪ ) mom: hey, molly? it's time to go! (bell ringing) class, let's turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations. who would like to read? ( ♪ ) molly: i reprogrammed the

they want to do -- i had 80 0 h.h.s.other 80 at the coliseum and stood there for two days waiting for their marching orders. they are great people. their commanding officers were experienced people. just waiting for the orders to start moving, and we need -- this isn't an issue of beiing po poetic. this is a call to action, a plea for this help that is right here to get moving and get to where it supposed to be. >> san juan mayor carmen julian cruz, i really, really appreciate the time you took to talk to us. please keep us apprised. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. all right. wow. more ahead here tonight, stay with us. i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured w

we have tom price, he should be your secretary of h.h.s. because he's the intellectual leader of the effort. you can see from the debate, from what was happening every day that the republicans themselves tid not have their hands around this issue. >> rose: it's not looked as your baby. what happened? >> what do you mean what happened? travel ban is successful. i think the supreme court will uphold the key parts of it in the fall. >> rose: could it have been drafted better? >> in fact, president trump likes the original draft. you have to remember something, to go through an inter-agency process you have to have an executive order. by the way, the mainstream media knows this. you have to have the office of legal counsel or the department of justice sign this. we had inter-agency process, started in the transition period. we had the enforcement of the deportation. these e.o.s were fully vetted. general kelly said on public testimony they were fully on board to do it. were there a couple of wrinkles? yeah, but you know what he found out? it's

whether or not he was really concerned about it i don't think donald trump likes to see his secretary of h.h.s. in the news day after day after day for all these private jet travel and i think that was probably the problem if this had gone under the radar and wasn't getting a lot of news i doubt mr trump would have really cared about it what do you think it's going to take for the administration to be forced if necessary to a lot more transparency in the way that it operate to avoid situations like this because we are as islands piece said earlier on seeing a succession of senior people leaving because of these clashes of interest. well i think we're seeing people leave because they're involved in an ethical behavior and eventually if it all gets to be too much and there are questions by congress and people across america raise questions with their congress people and the congress people don't like this level of pressure i really think the big question is what happens in the twenty eight thousand elections does the republican party take a bath and if so then the democrats will be in office if

however, in december, 2015, h.h.s. issued guidance that includes printive rules that seemingly go beyond these aggregate requirements and in some cases may limit a state's ability to implement certain changes even if those changes are expected to drive down average premiums and increase the overall number of individuals with insurance. the guidance also specifies that compliance with the guardrails must be met each year, allowing states to meet these guardrails over the lifetime of the waivers could allow for more impactful and innovative waivers, including those that may have a rampup or phase-in period before they become effective. my written testimony provides states flexibility to have customized solutiones that work locally. these include permitting states to submit coordinated 1115 and 1332 waivers, affording states more flexibility in essential health benefit definitions, allow for more flexibility around plan design that would permit states to explore additional value-based benefit plans, allowing states to wai

suddenly moved up with -- after only just a few months of being in congress, to be the secretary of h.h.s.? mr. lieu: that's a great point. and others ry price did was not just a bad practice, it's a violation of federal regulation. the regulation says, your agency must select the method most advantageous to the government when considering travel. advantageous to the government. not to secrary price or mnuchin or e.p.a. administrateor prue ethey violated that straight up. that's why tom price is under federal investigation. it's why the i.g. is investigating treasury secretary mnuchin and now we call for an investigation of secretary ruitt as well. mr. gallego: while you were talking about that, and to see ow easy it is to not need that that, i typed in flights to philadelphia. there's a flight leaving in 46 minutes. the cheapest, i found one for $441. i found another for $447. if you want to connect to philadelphia, which i don't know why you would, jetblue will take you there for $264. so in secretary price's efforts to live an extravagant lifestyle and void himself of common sense he v

>> a promise to pay back at least some of the money he used from taxpayers to fly in private jets, h.h.sprice is as you said the first cabinet secretary to resign in the trump administration. as of midnight, this man, don j. wright is in charge of the department. he is the acting settlement now before he served as the deputy assistant secretary. barely two weeks ago politico reported on price's use of private planes. they said he traveled on private jets at least 24 times sings may. and for most of those flights, other options were available. cheaper commercial options. the private flights reportedly cost taxpayers over $300,000. politico reporters later found that price used military planes on trips abroad and sometimes brought his wife costing taxpayers half a million dollars. price agreed to pay back roughly $51,000. with yo$51,000 but it wasn't enough. yesterday when asked about price's job president trump said he would make a decision in the night on whether or not he could keep it shortly afterwards price submitted a letter of resignation. in order for you to move forward without f

authority in the affordable care act and some people have argued that congress should require that h.h.s. move quicker in approving waivers. and i think that's part of this and then various ideas for the cost containment. that's basically the proposal. a few quick remarks and then introduce the panel and we'll take it from there. i think it's kind of interesting that at least from the republican standpoint most of this year, the phrase was repeal and replace and now the phrase even among republicans is stabilize. but what does stabilize mean? it's the political correct term for repairing obamacare. that's basically the story. a lot of the problems that we see in the exchange market is the direct consequence of the design of the affordable care act. mistakes were made in drafting that bill eight years ago or seven years ago and those mistakes have been retained. even in situations where mistakes were finally realized, the previous administration fearing i guess the political fallout chose not to go to congress to make adjustments that clearly are needed, are needed now and in the future i

specifically this amendment allows h.h.s. to offer transitional living program and maternity group home grants for centers that would otherwise see a lapse in funding in fiscal year 2018. this amendment does not increase funding for the program. this amendment simply prevents senters from facing a gap in -- centers in from facing a gap in grant eligibility. this amendment does not increase -- this -- failure to act will cause runaway and homeless youth in maternity group home centers across the county to downgrade, discontinue or eventually close. . hey provide a temporary use of shelters. they provide transitional help to parental youth, homeless to ensure their well-being. this issue was first brought to my attention by the modesto center for human services which supports individuals in stanislas county, california. it provides youth services, substance abuse treatment, family resource centers, shelter services and community projects. the center relies on existing transitional living program grant, the t.o.p. grants are cri

my amendment would simply require h.h.s. when making grants to use the best federal data available for every state and territory and to use an appropriate alternative data source, if necessary, in the case of puerto rico. this will ensure that puerto rico receives its fair share of funding and not one penny more and not one penny less. i hope my colleagues will support this amendment and that we will continue to do everything possible to help our fellow citizens in puerto rico. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. does any member claim time in opposition? mr. smith: i rise to claim time in opposition to the amendment although i am not opposed. the chair: without objection, the gentleman from nebraska. mr. smith: i support this amendment, the maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting program is designed to serve families with young children living in areas with a wide range of risks. below elps those at or 105% above the poverty line. it's imperative that dis

we have small business administration, h.h.s., department of energy, v.a., labor, everybody has come together with their assets in support of d.h.s. and fema and the governors and their response. senator johnson: thank you, secretary. senator mccaskill. senator mccaskill: well, it's good to hear that brief. i'll look forward to the detailed brief and i know some of my colleagues are also very interested in the specifics on the ground in puerto rico. seems to me we should have known 100% match before the hurricane even hit. clearly from the financial status of the island, they were going to be in no position to make the match. i want to talk about what i mentioned in my opening statement. i don't think most americans realize that the number of incidents by white supremist, militant, anti-government organizations are almost triple the number of attacks of those who identify with a jihadist movement internationally in this country. can you -- director wray, talk about how many do you have dedicated agents full time to investigating international terrorism versus the type of terrorism th

. >> the h.h.s. is open 24/7 and currently tracking care provided on the ground in east texas and louisiana. everything from hospitals to shelters, to dialysis centers and whether they are open or closed. and who needs help. >> there are a lot of people who are electricity-dependent for their own health to people on dialysis or oxygen concentrators and folks have electric wheelchairs and no mobility about that. hhs are the ones who know who those people are down to their name and address. the only way that the local folks know who they are so that they go knock on the door and say are you all right, mrs. jones, is that we give them that name and address. >> the agency's main focus right now is keeping medical supply lines open. >> the challenge in this storm, because of the incredible flooding that has occurred is getting the resources to the individual, so the pharmaceutical supplies are available, making sure we get them to the individual. the dialysis units are available. making sure we get them t