mr. levine? >> my name is allen levine, an executive chairman of ballot health a health delivery system serving 29 counties in southwest virginia and northeast tennessee. i formally served as secretary of health for the state louisiana and florida. i'm pleased to provide this oral testimony to supplement the written testimony i've submitted. tennessee has made many contributions to america. i had the opportunity to visit one such gift, the std jude children's research hospital. a place where research and precision medicines are createsing cures for children's cancer. it occurred to mow that more man an hour away in a small, rural community in tennessee a local hospital was closing. that very day. and people were losing their jobs. this was the ninth such closing in tennessee since 2010. what a vivid picture that was of the increasing distance between our urban and rural communities and one memphis we have research and progress led by a world renowned institution, and in a rural community more tha

mr. levine. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my name's alan levine, executive chairman of ballad health, a 21-hospital integrated health delivery system serving southwest virginia and northeast tennessee. i also formerly served as secretary of health for the states of louisiana and florida. i'm pleased to provide this testimony as a supplement to written testimony i've submitted, and i look forward to answer your questions about it later. tennessee has made many contributions to america, and yesterday i had the opportunity to visit one such gift, the st. jude children's research hospital, a place in memphis where research and medicine are creating cures for children's cancer. it occurred to me that just more than an hour away in a small, rural committee in tennessee a local hospital was closing that very day, and people were losing their jobs. this was the ninth such closing in tennessee since 2010. what a vivid picture that was of then increasing distance between our urban and our rural communities in one, memphis, we have resea

mr. levine. >> thank you mr. chairman. i am the executive chairman of valid health and 21 hospital integrated health delivery system serving 29 counties. formerly served as the secretary of health for the state of louisiana and florida. i am pleased to provide this oral testimony as a supplement to the written testimony. i look forward to answer your questions. tennessee has made many contributions to america. yesterday i visited one such gift st. jude's children's research hospital. a place in memphis where research and medicine are creating cures for children's cancer. as a tour the hospital it occurred that more than an hour away in a small rural community, in tennessee a local hospital was closing. that very day. and people are losing jobs. this was the ninth closing in tennessee since 2010. what a vivid pitcher that was of the distance between the urban and rural communities. in memphis we have research in progress led by a whale from institution and a rural community want just an hour away, the community lost his hos

mr. levin: mr. speaker, this is the first of four bills that came out of the ways and means committee. they came out without much controversy. the only one that really had any is this first bill. i'm not sure we'll have on our side any speakers, and i'll say a few words about this bill in a few minutes, but i first want to talk a bit about bipartisanship. hese four bills do have some bipartisanship. unfortunately, what isn't ipartisan is the basic dispute about health care and about the continuation of the reform that we, on the democratic side, tarted some years ago with our president. it has turned out to be an important piece of legislation. i think historic. and the more people look at it and the more they are covered by it, the greater is the support for it. unfortunately, unlike the bipartisanship in these four bills, a.c.a. continues to be hit by the worst kind of partisanship, and continued efforts to undermine and destroy it. in october of 2017, the administration ended cost sharing reducti

mr. levine? >> yes, sir.i think that one of the things that's a problem here, the differentiation, there used to be a great differentiation between medicaid and insurance. in the last five or six years, we've seen a major shift with even private insurance, where even if a child or an adult has private health insurance, because of all the high deductibles, many of them are not able to pay. and what's happening to us is our biggest increase in bad debt and uncollectible revenue isn't the uninsured. it's people who have insurance. >> that's very common, right? >> it's one of the biggest single problems we have. >> i hear about that a lot. i was in a county right next door to my neighbor state the other day, in northern colorado. that's the size of delaware geographically, but it's 1300 people live there as opposed to 1 million people in delaware. as we had this conversation it became clear in the room that of everybody in the room, there are only three people that had insurance. one was the school principal. who

mr. levin? yes. mr. lewis? yes. mr. dogt? yes. mr. thompson? yes. mr. larson? yes. mr. blummen houryes. mr. kind? aye. mr. krouly? aye. dr. davis? yes. ms. sanchez? aye. mr. higgins? aye. dr. choo? aye. ms. black? no. mr. holding? mr. rice? ms. sooul? mr. brady? no. >> mr. chairman. >> clerk will call the roll. excuse me. will report the vote. >> 15 ayes, 21 noes. the amendment is not agreed to. any. >> mr. chairman? >> i know you're going to give me a chance. >> yes, sir. >> mr. thompson, do you wish to be recognized? >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> i reserve a point of order. >> point of order has been reserved. the clerk will distribute the amendment and ask the gentleman to suspend while the clerk distributes. >> jgentleman from california i recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in october my district suffered the most destructive fire in history. this august another fire ravaged through northern california. it was the largest fire in california history. folks in my district aren't the only ones to see these sweeping and devastating fires. the car fire, whi

mr. levin. mr. levin yes. mr. lewis. mr. lewis yes. mr. doggette. mr. doggette yes. mr. thompson, yes. mr. larson. mr. larson yes. mr. blummenhaur. mr. kind. mr. kind aye. mr. pascrelpascrell. mr. pascrell yes. dr. davis. dr. davis yes. ms. sanchez aye. mr. higgins, mr. higgins yes. ms. soule yes. dr. chu aye. mr. holding. mr. rice. mr. blummenhaur. chairman brady. chairman brady no. >> the clerk will report the vote. >> 15 yays, 21 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. any other amendment in the nature of the substitute is t? s >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. >> mr. reichert, you're recognized. point of order has been reserved. the clerk will distribute the amendment and ask the gentleman from texas to suspend while the clerk distributes. >>> so the gentleman is recognized union his amendment there is a germane issue you may want to recognize. >> thank you very much. to sell this sorry tax bill, the trump administration told a number of whoppers, but certainly one of the biggest whoppers is this one from the executive office of the president on nove

mr. levin? mr. levin, no. mr. lewis? mr. lewis, no. mr. doggett? no. mr. thompson? mr. thompson, no. mr. thompson, no. mr. blumenauer, no. mr. kind? mr. kind, no. mr. pascrell? mr. pascrell, no. mr. crowley? >> no. >> mr. crowley, no. dr. davis? dr. davis, no. miss sanchez. mr. higgins. plr mr. higgins, no. miss delbene? dr. chu? dr. chu, no. mr. holding. mr. rice. miss sanchez. miss sewell. chairman brady? >> aye. >> chairman brady, aye. mr. chairman? >> clerk will report the vote. >> 21 ayes. 14 nays. >> ayes are 21, the nos 14. the house of representatives file objection, i ask the staff be authorized to make technical con forming changes to the bill. amendments have two additional days to file with the county clerk supplemental dissenting minority views. last order of business is hr -- if i can ask the committee and audience to refrain. last order of business hr-5756. i'll now turn to mr. buchanan, the bill's sponsor and chair of the tax policy subcommittee to give an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. last year we pass add bill to reform our tax bill in

>> mr. levin, i believe you are referring to an analysis that my colleagues provided to the members last december in the distribution analysis of jcx 6817. and your calculation which seems to be accurate is based on the total change in federal taxes projected near calendar year, divided by the roughlyly divided by the roughlyl 600,000 taxpayers that will have incomes over $1 million. >> the answer is yes? >> the short answer is yes. >> now, tax bill last year included both individual and corporate. i want to ask you about the impact of the extension here. just for individuals. your chart shows, that for taxpayers, these are average between 75 to 100,000, by 2028 that would be a tax reduction of $1,158 while for those with income over a million dollars the tax cut in 2028 would be $39,148. is that correct? >> yes, for the members' benefit, mr. levin is referring to the distribution table that we provided this morning. jcx-7218. and dividing the total individual income tax change reported on that ta

the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, for five minutes. mr. levin: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. i rise : mr. speaker, once again to speak about the unspeakable suffering of the rohingya people. two recent developments have accentuated the vital need for the house to formally and clearly about this human disaster. first, last month a fact-finding mission of the united nations spelled out what is undeniable. that burma's rohingya muslim population has been subjected to, and i quote, systemic oppression, end of quotes. culminating in so-called clearance operations that, in quotes, targeted and terrorized the entire rohingya population. u.n. report calls for burma, its military leaders, to be investigated and prosecuted on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes related to the aprosities committed against the rohingya. let me quote directly from the u.n. report on the violence and brutality inflicted on the rohingya by operations conducted by the burmese and i y last

mr. levin. mr. higgins. chairman brady. >> no. >> chairman brady no. >> the clerk will report the vote. >> 14 nayes and 20 nays. >> the committee will stand in recessreconvene immediately after votes. >>> the house ways and means committee have been talking about tax reform proposals. a number of bills would nak perm nnt tax cuts that congress approved last year. while the committee is in this break, we're going to show you some of the opening statements as the committee got underway this morning. >> the tax cuts and jobs acts change the trajectory of our economy for the better. since president trump signed the new tax code into law, we have seen an economic turn around, more jobs, bigger paychecks and historic record setting main street optimism. this meant real change for real people with nearly 1.7 million jobs since the beginning of the year and wages rising at their fastest rate in almost a decade. so many more americans are hopeful again about their financial future. i saw this on the courthouse square

mr. levin? mr. levin, yes. mr. voting. >> rollcall vote. [inaudible conversations] chairman brady. >> the clerk will report to the vote 15 yes 201 knows. i have amendment at the desk. i resume -- reserve of point of order. the clerk will distribute the amendment. please suspend where the clerk disputes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the general lady from california as instructed to speak on her amendment. my amendment is straightforward and logical. it is a lifeline to millions of working families and seniors. one bit of bad luck or carid accident should not ruin a person's entire financial future. and makes permanent the lower adjusted gross income floor to claim the medical expense deduction. millions of middle-class families and seniors ace high medical costs including those that need to seek life-saving treatment outside of their plan or those with health needs that are not covered by medicare.ng this is especially important for for fee patients and families struggling to manage on the cys

. >> mr. levin, i believe you're referring to analysis that my colleagues provided to the members last december in the distribution analysis of 6817 and your calculation, which seems to be accurate is based on the total change in federal taxes projected from the calendar year is divided by the roughly 600,000 taxpayers we estimate will have incomes above $1 million. >> okay, so the answer is yes. not the short answer is yes. >> now, the tax bill included both individual and corporate. i want to ask you about the impact of the extension here just for individuals. your chart shows for taxpayers between 75 to 100 rows then by 2028 that would be a tax reduction of $1158 for those who didn't come over a million dollars or $38,148. is that correct? >> yes, for the members benefit, mr. levin is referring to the distribution table that we provided this morning, jcx providing the total income tax change reported on that table by the number of taxpayers with projects in each income group and so for the income

and mrs. levin in sunday school who taught me to treat people like i wanted to be treated and to know when enough was enough. i learnedl history, that we as a country aspire to fairness and opportunity and respect for all. we are a flawed nation, but i really do believe we are that shining's eddie on the hill and we should commit to that and do something at -- shining city on the hill and we should commit to do -- we should commit to that and do something. and it is my rabbi leonard cohen. [laughter] andrea: is that a coincidence in the name or -- craig: no, that's not a joke. he is not doing much preaching anymore, but he is my rabbi. andrea: you have supported organizations through grants in the past. would you consider buying one outright? craig: buying a publication is important for some people -- andrea: not people who donate $20 million here or there. craig: $20 million will not get you that much. marc benioff has done a lot for veterans families, which means a lot to me. andrea: and is one of

>> historically, the one second pick of most, mister and mrs. levinunday's who taught me to treat people like i wanted to be treated and to know when enough is enough. high school history, he also taught me that as a country, we aspire to fairness and opportunity and respect for all. we are a flawed nation, but i really do believe that we are that shining eddie on the hill, and we should commit to that into something every day, or recently, it has been my rabbi, leonard cohen. >> [ laughter ] >> is a coincidence in the name, or -- >> no, that's not a joke. he is not doing much preaching anymore, but he is my rabbi. >> okay. you have supported several publications through grants in the past. would you consider buying one out right? >> find a publication is for important, fancy people. that being said, i have a great deal -- >> not people who donate $20 million here or there. >> that will get you all that much. but i have worked with a bit and have a lot of confidence in both marty baron and mark benioff. marks, in particular, has done a lot for veteran

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and mrs. levin in sunday school who taught me to treat people like i want to be treated and to know when enough is enough. high school history, mr. shulski, who also taught me that as a country we aspire to fairness and opportunity and respect for all. we're a flawed nation, but i really do believe that we're that shining city on the hill and that we should, you know, commit to that and do something every day. more recently it's been my rabbi, leonard cohen. [laughter] >> is that a coincidence in the name or is your -- >> referring to -- no, that's not a joke. [laughter] he's not doing much preaching anymore, but he is my rabbi. >> okay. you've supported several publications through grants in the past. would you consider buying one outright? >> buying a publication is for important, fancy people. [laughter] that being said, i have a great deal -- >> not people who donate $20 million here or there. >> well, $20 million won't get you all a that much -- >> in terms of a publication. >> i have worked wi

neal, the ranking member of the health subcommittee mr. levin as well as leaders on our de and mr. roskam, mr. curbelo, mr. bishop for authorizing key provisions of h.r. 6. they'll save lives and heal communities. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon -- mr. walden spb i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is ecognized. >> i'd like to yield four minutes to the gentleman who work sod hard on this legislation, mr. neal. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: i rise in support of h.r. 6. i want to acknowledge mr. pallone, mr. walden, mr. brady of the change of the wavepls committee for the work they offered on this as well. the opioid crisis is not a partisan issue. it's a health, safety, family, community issue. everybody in this chamber today has a family member or knows someone close to them who is connected to the opiate crisis. h.r. 6 represents the best of bipartisan and bicameral negotiation. this indeed is the way policy can and should be done. the bill includes a number of democratic priorities to

mr chairman the votes are all levin yeas, ten days. may i be recognise?g us the time today to have a conversation. i'm number of my colleagues have asked for a one—week delay in order that there might be in fbi investigation of what allegations are currently before this committee. i respect senator flake's view that in his opinion it was best to respect you are having given doctor ford the time to be heard yesterday and advance the nominee to the floor. but it is my hope that we could work together on a bipartisan basis to diligently pursue an fbi investigation within the next week, not for the purpose of delay, but for the purpose of investigating further either allegations made by doctor ford or others with a goal towards demonstrating a bipartisan commitment to diligently investigating these allegations. thank you. senator feinstein.|j would support that motion. i think we need that motion. in fact i sort of senator flake. i thought it included a one—week investigation. i would like to support the motion for that investigation. we will take turns here.

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