sylvia mathews burwell is the secretary of health and human services. i sat down with her earlier today at the agency's headquarters. secretary burwell, thank you for joining us. you announced this week 11 people have now signed up for the affordable care act but that the numbers could change? >> 11.4 million people have signed up and what we know is as we go through the process the number of people we know may be low than that number. we have a special enrollment period for those still in line at the time open enrollment closed so will be some additions and probably subtractions from those numbers over time. >> ifill: is there some discussion underway about extending the enrollment for people in april who don't realize they're going to be stuck with tough tax issues if they don't enroll? >> we'll come out soon with a decision one way or the other whether or not we'll extend for those individuals. >> ifill: we saw the president make a pitch for young enrollees with his youtube video. how did that work out to reach the young invincibles not necessarily s

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell is on the hot seat.gh questions coming here way and the recent obamacare tax form mistake, big number of people that were led astray by that that will be a top priority. doug mckelway joins us live in washington. so doug what else do we expect in there today? >> another really big issue martha, what sort of contingency plans does the administration if the supreme court rules against the government in king versus burrwell? they will hear the arguments next week. that is the million dollar question that hhs secretary sylvia burwell will face as she testifies before a house energy and commerce subcommittee n prepared remarks scheduled for delivery about now, she makes no mention of any plan b whatsoever should the supreme court rules in june that exchanges provided by federal government are not valid. only 16 states set up their own exchanges. in op-ed nebraska republican senator ben sass said the implications. health and human services secretary sylvia burwell claimed last month that the administration has

i don't get this it has to do with obamacare and sylvia burwell.e is thinking or worse no one gives a damn. here's the problem. regardless of view of obama care, is new impacts millions. next wednesday the supreme court will hear oral arguments on a key case king vs. burwell. if the president loses, and he could millions of americans will lose the subsidies that allow them to afford healthcare. that's a big deal. no one knows what the court will decide. but this is urgent enough for millions of americans that the administration better have a plan b ready do they have one? here is hhs secretary sylvia burwell on capitol hill today. >> i know you hope that the court upholds your position but shouldn't the administration and your agency have a plan in case it fails? >> the question of having a plan, we don't have an administrative action that we believe can undo the damage. >> so, no backup plan. really? of course no one knows what the court can decide. i will tell you this president obama is at high risk of losing this. the supreme court may only rel

sylvia burwell facing questions from a house committee over several obamacare issues from erroneous tax forms being mailed out to a looming supreme court decision that could undo obamacare. let's bring in karl rove former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, also a fox news contributor. responding to questions from senator hatch she admits that if the supreme court invalidates obamacare -- invalidates the legality of those state exchanges -- there is no plan to control the chaos that would result. what do you think about that just from a standpoint of governance karl? >> well, i think it's two things. first of all, i think it is a direct message to the courts that if you hold that the law as written is the law as written that is to say that states that don't establish their own subsidy -- their own exchanges cannot have people in those states receive these generous subsidies for insurance, 36 states did not establish exchanges, people in those states you should the black letter law of the statute -- under the black letter law of the statute would not rec

. >> you can find the rest of this hearing with health and human services secretary sylvia burwell and other hearings with administration officials discussing the president's 2016 logit request online at c-span. org. german chancellor angela merkel and french president francois hollande are attempting to work on an agreement to defuse tensions between ukraine and russia. they travel to kiev and moscow to discuss a peace deal. reuters reports that chancellor merkel conceded it was uncertain if a franco-german he's plan would succeed and reflected on the idea of sending weapons to ukraine. something the u.s. is currently considering. the current conflict has killed more than 5000 people according to reuters. we will bring you chancellor merkel's remarks are munich later today on c-span. next a look at the president's request for defense spending in fiscal year 2016 with pentagon officials. a recent hearing held by the senate armed services committee focusing on potential changes to military retirement conversation followed by your thoughts on the subject and other issues affecting the mi

visit ncicap.org] >> this morning on c-span, health and human services secretary sylvia burwell appears before the senate finance committee to go over the president's 2016 budget request for hhs. then pentagon officials talk about the president's budget request for defense spending and at a briefing with reporters. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to corpus christi, texas. >> we are in the daniel kilgore reading room of the special selections at the library in corpus christi. dr. hector garcia papers are the flagship collection we have here in corpus. >> he made it his life to help local and beyond mexican americans learn to be more civically active and to get the benefits they had coming to them as veterans which were sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. this represents a case of private longoria which was an incident that occurred early in the g.i. forum. private longoria served the united states during

opened the conversation for 2016. >> good afternoon everybody, please welcome sylvia burwell. >> goodfternoon everybody and good afternoon to our team. as a former onb director, i know yesterday was the super bowl, but i consider budget day the real super bowl, the only difference is you won't be hearing katy perry today. [laughter] as a former budget director, i believe the president's are just shows what we can accomplish together if we invest in our nations future and commit to building an economy that rewards hard work. an economy that drives up income and allows everybody to share in the prosperity of a growing america. the budget lays out a strategy to strengthen our middle class and allow hard-working families to get ahead. the proposal positions us to continue making historic strides toward priorities we all share. providing americans with the opportunity to live healthy and productive lives. it makes critical investments in health care, science, innovation and human services. it maintains our commitment to be responsible stewards of the taxpayer dollars. it strengthens our wo

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chance to discuss the emerging healthcare landscape with the health and human services secretary sylvia burwell who has been open and flexible to governors trying to work with in their healthcare. last year the healthcare task force gave the president a series of recommendations including streamlining process for medicaid allowing to share in state driven efforts and delivering a pathway to permanency permanency, they were not just temporary but they could become permanent. gives have been working with the department to make these recommendations a reality and we will make sure we continue that conversation in the governors only session. monday we vote on the policies and guides and advocacy of the association and wrap up the weekend with the annual meeting with the president. as you can see we've got plenty to do and we have gotten a lot done but there is plenty more to do and we have a lot of work. we have a very busy weekend ahead of us. now i would like to introduce my cohort in all of this our vice chair of m.g.a. and very able governor gary herbert of utah. >> thank you. i hope people app

. >>> on capitol hill today, health and human services secretary sylvia burwell refused to answer whether the obama administration has a contingency plan should the supreme court rule that federal subsidies for obamacare are illegal. her refusals led to this exchange. >> you refuse to answer our questions and that to me doesn't strike me as trying to work with congress but rather contemptuoous of congress's oversight responsibilities. do you believe you have authority to issue an administrative fix or do you think you need additional legislation? >> senator, what i have been focusing on is implementation, not on that question. >> mr. chairman, secretary burwell is a charming person and she is obviously intelligent, but these hearings are absolutely no use to us if the witnesses refuse to answer straightforward questions which this witness has repeatedly done. >> the senator couldn't have put it better. burwell went on to say nearly ten million people have signed up for obamacare. but this sounds like an echo from our recent past, doesn't it? she also declined to tell the senators how many

well, the separate hearing, health and human services secretary sylvia burwell would not admit the administration had a plan, that despite burwell being confronted with evidence that hhs did have a plan b. >> the committee received recently specific information from a source within your department about the existence of an approximately 100-page document related to potential actions, hhs may take if the supreme court rules against the administration in king v. burwell. are you or senior staff at hhs aware of this document? >> mr. chairman, this say document i am not aware of. >> okay despite burwell's comments, experts believe the administration has a contingency plan but trying to keep it under wraps to pressure the supreme court into not ruling against obamacare. >>> up next, it was a slow-moving white bronco, another chase captured this nation's attention for a period of time. the latest on the llamas on the loose. >>> and the direct offer national intelligence points the finger at vladimir putin when it comes to america's biggest cyberthreat. our biggest expert shows us what the nation can do

hhs secretary sylvia mathews burwell admitted she has no mother loving idea what she or the administration will do if scotus interrupt us guts the aca, one woman who might have to jump into the fray? hillary clinton. though she's been hedging herself lately when asked about surveillance tactics in california this week, clinton said this. >> i resist saying, it has to be this or that. i want us to come to a better balance. kennedy: yeah, that's not the better balance, that's just confusion. pick a side, sister! if she's going to be our next president, she will not be able to stay mum on the nsa, the aca or isis, she is going to have to pick a side and choose. filling her coffers from bitcoin with 1%ers from silicon valley. while they are a receptive audience of gals rubbing elbows with tech billionaires might make it hard for her to become the next elizabeth warren. hillary envisions no more blue or red state division, she has an all-new color scheme in mind. >> there are a lot of things i'd love to see our country do. i'd like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, into a warm purple

sylvia matthews burwell, secretary burlison leaving the department of health and human services since june of 2014. ms. burwell has a long history of public sector service including those recently serving as director of the office of management and budget under president obama did in the clinton administration ms. burwell served as deputy director of omb deputy chief of staff to the president chief of staff to the treasury secretary and staff director of the national economic council all of which are very important positions. she also has extensive private sector experience including serving as the present of the walmart foundation and before that the present of the global development program of the bill and melinda gates foundation. we are honored to have you here and thank you for being here today and you can proceed with your opening statement. >> thank you chairman hatch and ranking member wyden and members of the committee for having me here today. i want to thank you for the opportunity to discuss the president's budget for health and human services. i believe firmly we all shar

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell said about 150,000 people who encountered technicalll be able to take advantage of an extended february 22nd deadline. the white house says 11.4 million americans enrolled in private health insurance under the affordable care act during the latest open enrollment period. >> woodruff: greece put the finishing touches on a proposal to request an extension loan from its international creditors. the request has been a major sticking point in negotiations between the new greek government and the 19 members of the eurozone. the offer is expected to be submitted tomorrow, but german officials maintain greece has to keep its original bailout agreement. >> ifill: and with one eye on greece u.s. stocks ended the day with mostly small losses. the dow jones industrial average lost 18 points to close above 18,000; the nasdaq rose seven points; and the s&p 500 dropped less than a point. >> woodruff: and in china, over 200 million people traveled to their hometowns to celebrate the lunar new year, the most important holiday on the chinese calendar. a

a short time ago today i spoke with health and human services secretary sylvia burwell about the health> thank you very much for being with us. we want to ask you about the buzz feed video. this is an unconventional way to get people to sign up. how much do you attribute to this new campaign? >> one of the things that was a goal throughout the entire open enrollment was meeting the consumer where they are and making sure we're very consumer focused. there are a number of young folks that are consumers we're trying to reach who are unsured and it was a good way to reach those. the views of that video in the first 24 hours, we were up over 22 million views. we know that young people are looking and observed and hopefully got the message about healthcare.gov. >> you say the enrollment has soared and numbers are good. some people still are confused about the system. do you think the product is consumer friendry enough at this point? >> well what i think is this open enrollment we focused on the consumer and website was over 99% of the time. we did things to make it easier for those coming i

. - sylvia burwell. and later white house budget diarrhea shaun donovan. >>> the senate health committee hears from a panel of doctors about disease prevention through the vaccines. the hearing comes amid national debate whether vaccinations should be mandatory as several states deal with a current outbreak of measles. watch the hearing live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and the senate finance committee holds a hearing on the u.s. tax code. the witnesses are former senators bob packwood and bill bradley. both had a role in the 1986 tax deal reached under president reagan. that will be live on c-span3 at 10:00 a.m. eastern. next a look at the proposal and the corn state transportation projects. from "washington journal," this is 50 minutes. >> today we continue our weekly look at how your money is being spent, taxpayer dollars. and this week focusing on infrastructure in this country. let me introduce you to chris edwards whose tax policy studies director at cato institute. robert pew win december, met

fully paid for and we would add some additional reforms to that legislation that build on what sylvia burwell secretary of hhs has done on the delivery system reform so if we can keep driving those costs will costs will work even when more important than social security or other entitlement issues of the issue of health care cost is the single most important place where we can really been that the cost curve in the long run on entitlement exchanges. >> there is a question on the sequester. >> let me say first off just look at the deficit reductions to date. more of it this past year was because of the tax deal that restored the clinton era rates on the income and the affordable care act. the combination of those then from the sequester and second of all the most important is where you are over the medium or the long run and bear those steps towards the impact in terms of changing the medium and long run debt and deficit trajectory. we have charts that show precisely what role is played, but again, on jason's point it is morphed in the long run and also the fundamental point that it's not goin

. >>> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell getting grilled on capitol hill yesterday. she would not answer questions about the agency's backup plan if the supreme court shoots down obamacare's insurance subsidies for millions. roll the tape. >> and my question is if the administration loses have you taken steps to advise federal enrollies about the consequences that may apply to them as a result of administration losing that lawsuit? >> right now a mentioned with the chairman, what we're focused on what we believe is our responsibility to implement the law as fully as we can. tom: that was the biggest nonanswer answer i've heard. monica, does she have a backup plan? the court could rule. >> against them. and rule that is unconstitutional. the subsidies. two reasons she answered that way, the administration doesn't have a backup plan and trying to paint the republicans as the bad guys. if the court strikes this down have you 34 states that no longer have subsidies. they're going to say to the republicans, what are you going to do? you have millions cut out of subsidies,

chance to discuss the emerging healthcare landscape with the health and human services secretary sylvia burwellho has been open and flexible to governors trying to work with in their healthcare. last year the healthcare task force gave the president a series of recommendations including streamlining process for medicaid allowing to share in state driven efforts and delivering a pathway to permanency they were not just temporary but they could become permanent. governors have been working with the department to make these recommendations a reality and we will make sure we continue that conversation in the governors only session. monday we vote on the policies and guides and advocacy of the association and wrap up the weekend with the annual meeting with the president. as you can see we've got plenty to do and we have gotten a lot done but there is plenty more to do and we have a lot of work. we have a very busy weekend ahead of us. now i would like to introduce my cohort in all of this our vice chair of m.g.a. and very able governor gary herbert of utah. >> thank you. i hope people appreciate th

when i was working with sylvia burwell, white house figures were $14 trillion.Ñó 30 years. interest is a plug. to me, if anything, the alternate fiscal scenario might be understating the size of the problem. my question to you in your budget deliberations are you looking at the 30-year problem? and if you and if you are what has the president included in his budget to address the long-term unsustainability of social security and medicare because those are what drives the deficit, which produced $71 trillion of interest payments. >> so, three key things that i think we could all agree are really driving these deficits in debt over the long-term. health care costs. a lack of enough workers as we talked about earlier. relative to the number of retirees that we have and having adequate revenue and all of these key things that we attack in our budget, the impacts grow over time, so, whether it's the capital gains reforms and others that grow substantially in the second decade and beyond, immigration reform, which grows are from $160 billion of deficit reduction in th

visit ncicap.org] >> this morning on c-span, health and human services secretary sylvia burwell appearsre the senate finance committee to go over the president's 2016 budget request for hhs. then pentagon officials talk about the president's budget request for defense spending and at a briefing with reporters. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to corpus christi, texas. >> we are in the daniel kilgore reading room of the special selections at the library in corpus christi.

secretary sylvia burwell, thank you for being on the show. >> i won't be able to take him to the fairfieldd you all agree wee me. >> you commie. >> no no. wait a minute. wait a minute. >> just -- >> by the way, something you said often probably on this show. wait a minute. health insurance for all uninsured people in this country that you don't think going in was a noble idea? >> i think it's a noble idea for us to get health insurance for everybody, i do. i don't -- i don't -- >> that's all i'm saying. >> this was -- i cannot say what -- this was a big mess the way this was done from beginning to end. >> you sound like a sports writer talking about how the game came out. >> social security was easy -- >> we will see. i think the big political question is -- >> come on. >> -- with all of these people enrolling when it gets to a point, what is the point of no return? this becomes the fabric of america, and when there will be no turning back for republicans? >> well i think, joe, not as a partisan comment here at that point. >> you think we're at that point? >> 13.5 million people who didn't