states. it was their choice. of course, the principle of independence and selfdetermination says it is for the state to choose alliance. the whole world knows that nato is a defensive alliance. no one in nato is thinking to expand and to make war against another country. so it was increase of security, increase of peace in europe through accession of member states since 1990. i will say if it would not be done, then we would have much more worse situation as now. missy: i think the elephant in the room when we're talking about eastern europe and the baltics in particular in this conversation about russia's intentions, visavis nato, is the possibility that president putin could decide to widen the war, potentially launch a direct attack on nato nations. and you referenced earlier, latvia's feeling of security. i'm hoping you can elaborate on that. what makes latvia confident that president putin wouldn't attempt to roll westward? people talk about the gap and the possibility that putin, if he

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this is that big bill we worked on-- sam: the laws of the state don't apply out of state, but we have a bill that we're working on that would allow missouri law to apply to abortions that are performed in these states that have legalized abortion. it'd be a pretty big deal, but that's probably our next big legislative goal. ♪♪♪ kathryn: with the supreme court reconsidering roe v. wade later this year, doctors and advocates in missouri are gearing up for a decisive fight. i'm heading across town to meet them at a pro-choice fundraiser. ♪♪♪ female: we are in dire circumstances, because when you don't have legal access to abortion, people die. we are in the fight of our lives to maintain the basement, the very bare minimum of access to reproductive healthcare. robin: i am a person that has had an abortion in the state of missouri, and the process was so dehumanizing and so insulting that i started talking about it and have since become a reproductive rights advocate. living in missouri, i'm definitely afraid that my rights and my daughter's rights are going to be eroding rapi

ah, what you was taken by the united states were invaded in order for the united states to control per harbor because of hawaii's location, it's central central in the central pacific. so there's a central location that ships could enter hawaii ports after disarming, refurbish, leave home ports, re arm, and go back fighting a wine by money, by greet and story with installation. they represent all the things that was happening and will be between 9 and 930. so what we see rising out of the last out of the ocean are these giant monsters that are asked to read documentation of application of documentation that basically saying we're right is what we are. we're the inevitable truth and they're asking. so again, the pi saying that from the newspapers that we're seeing, never huh. we've developed an unusual a view of the world because of our location. we have huge oceans and a couple of weak neighbors in mexico and canada. therefore, we've never had to have a foreign policy of clear co operation with others. we've been able because of our power to impose our will on others globally here. hel

we're an old state, multiseason state, things age pretty quickly. but -- so we're looking forward to having those funds and to also using the dig once policy. one of the problems that i think was brought up earlier is that with the -- with the labor shortage everybody is seeing and with the supply chain issues, every time we go out to bid on a project, we're getting higher bids than our estimates and so we're trying to parse that out so that we don't put all the money out the door too quickly, federal and state funds together. and i hope -- i trust that the federal government will be -- think about the sheer dollars going into this in your state alone and how much an even 2 or 3% increase in the amount of time that a given piece of paving could survive, especially in northern winters, how that would translate. so the research agenda of this department is probably the least well known and celebrated, unless you happen to host one of your university transportation centers. but something that as -- maybe a bit of a nerdy pursuit i'm passionate about be

department of state. ms. sison was recently confirmed by the senate in december to lead this critical bureau and previously served as united states ambassador to haiti, sri lanka and the maldives, lebanon, and the uae. ms. sison, you have five minutes. welcome. >> good afternoon, and thank you, chairman castro, ranking member malliotakis, and members of the subcommittee, for having me here today. president biden has made clear that we will put our core u.s. values at the center of our foreign policy. this means we must actively outcompete efforts by nations that stand in opposition to u.s. values on human rights, democracy, labor rights, and transparent economic practices. to achieve this, we must work in partnership with other nations. and in my short time as the new assistant secretary for international organization affairs, i can state with real confidence that the multilateral world becomes more complex and more important with each passing year. i've seen across my state department career the reality that

in a state of the state address governor newsom stated he does not want to increase drilling for oil in california, saying that generally leads to increased pollution, contributes to climate change, drought, wildfire. what is your argument for why we should grow oil production here in the state? >> as somebody who represents paradise and has seen everything those folks have been through, that catastrophic wildfire was caused by pg&e and bad for street policy, 40 years worth of bad forestry policy. what we are talking about is making sure we are energy independent. we can have a variety of energy sources here that will also lead to cutting emissions overall. it is a balanced approach to our energy, and why not stop importing oil from places like venezuela, russia, the half a really bad human rights and environmental record. we can do things here that we think will help keep us energy independent, also help create jobs. would good, blue-collar jobs californians need especially in these dire times. >> in the last few moments we have together, assembly member, a little later in the show

states in your mind. okay, like what it looks like today the lower 48 so you're gonna take essentially the entire state of florida. okay, you're going to extend the panhandle of florida and then think about how it begins to make this curve to the northwest. okay, so that curve is gonna follow the south and southwestern boundaries of the louisiana territory, right? so it's going to look like what you know, it's gonna look like you're starting sort of the texas state line and then it's gonna go a little further north perhaps up into colorado, wyoming and then it's gonna hit a straight line almost all the way to california right to almost all the way to oregon territory, okay? so if you're following that line. florida eventually picks up a nickname. all right. it is referred to and it's referred to by. jackson what's by one of jackson's biographers who uses this expression and it's wonderful. it's he said he describes florida as a pistol aimed at the heart of the united states. that if we can't settle this t

not every state is like massachusetts. every states needs to develop an integrated care system. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today and i look forward to answering your questions. sen. casey: thank you for the opening statement and we will turn next to ms. doyle. ms. doyle: good morning, chairman casey, ranking member scott and members of the senate special committee on aging. i name is jane doyle. i have lived in pennsylvania for the past 32 years. i have two children and three grandchildren living in the suburbs of atlanta and boston. i am honored to have this opportunity to testify to help make positive change toward better health care for everyone. i have experience for myself and my family several different kinds of dual eligibility when i was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. i applied for social security disability so i also qualify for medicare. i still was able to work part-time and i also access medicaid through a special program. it allows people -- excuse me. it allows people to work and still earn higher incomes but otherwise qualify for medicaid

they are chartered by the states and incorporated by the states and the states give them charters so they can be legal corporations and that is, in itself, a deal that the u.s., that the state governments are making with groups of merchants. the deal is that the insurers get their corporation, which allows them to accumulate capital in a variety of convenient ways and pass bylaws that affect its members and what they're getting from the united states government is sort of this, what's the word? this endorsement from the government that says they are safe and secure and so then the insurers are doing all of these good things on behalf of the american merchant fleet in a way they're sort of repaying this bet that state governments have made on them. so, in general, american insurers that pay off, they make huge amounts of money during this uncertain period. they make money off the federal bonds that they invest in. they get political security from their charters. the legal regime is sort of formed in a way that suits their interest. and under a regime of relatively low taxation, americ

secretary of state.— secretary of state. thank you. i thank the _ secretary of state. thank you. i thank the honourable _ secretary of state. thank you. i thank the honourable lady - secretary of state. thank you. i thank the honourable lady for i secretary of state. thank you. i i thank the honourable lady for her remarks at it is not often we get to see in this chamber but i agree without wholeheartedly with what she just shared, she is a right to talk about this is a fight forjustice and how these brave families have been so persistent and coming forward with what had been done to them and what had gone wrong, this inquiry may never have happened and she is right to say that but also to talk about institutional failure, mistrust and the first report set that out in detail and we are seeing that out in detail and we are seeing that in much more detail. she talks rightly about patient safety and she will know the government has always set out plans to appoint a patient safety commissioner and that will be made soon but we need to do more and thatis made soon but we need to do mo

you declared a state of emergency over the homelessness situation in the state. affordable housing, six years later, continues to be a problem. it is a serious problem in many counties. median home prices are over $1 million. this is a state where renters spend more than 30% of their monthly income on housing. what should hawaii be doing differently to meet this challenge? >> housing and homelessness has been a top priority of my administration since taking office. we knew that supply was a critical component of that. we established in the first year a goal of completing 10,000 new housing units by 2020 and i am proud of the fact we hit that goal. in fact, we added 3000 more by the end of this year. in total, since becoming governor, we have completed more than 11,200 housing units, of which 8000 of those were affordable rentals. one concern we have had in the past was an affordable home for sale is only affordable the first time. once someone acquires it, the price of the home goes to market rate and that is one reason we focused on affordable rentals. we do kno

every state has become a border state because of this crisis and of course crime is skyrocketing across the country because of democrats defund the police policies and rhetoric making our communities less safe and inflation is at the 40 year high and hurting every american family. joe biden and house democrats are responsible for this state of the union in crisis . i'm now going to turn it over to republican with steve scalise. >> let me send my prayers to the people of ukraine. we're seeing such inspiring bravery but there is harsh brutality. the barbaric invasion by putin is having a devastating impact and i know my colleague is going to talk about that later and the things she's heard from the ground. as we listen tonight to the state of the union which is in crisis on so many fronts, i hope president biden talks about what he will do to work with republicans because we have real plans to get control of inflation, to lower gasprices and take away begins leverage on energy. to control our border. to get primary control . around the country to confront the defund the police and mentali

the baltic states. this hearing aligns with other efforts we have made to remain engaged with our baltic friends, including the recent tell gags visits to the region in july of 2021 and february of this year. this hearing also follows an event. i had the honor to convene in july of 2019. when commission held an unpress tented field hearing on baltic sea regional security in poland, our first ever hearing away from u.s. soil. i will note that on every one of these occasions, our baltic friends have warned us about the fwathering storm clouds of the possibility of the kind of tragic events we are now seeing unfold. my colleagues, it is my hope that in today's hearing, we will explore three main threats. first, how can we best support our baltic friends in meeting their direct security challenges from russia, belarus and china. secondly, how can we deepen our partnership to provide even more effective support for ukraine and others who stand in the chateau of moscow. and third, how can we work together to

state department. how does the state department know if somebody is lgbtqi+? because we cannot ask that when we hire anybody. i'm generally on —- genuinely curious to know. >> is also helpful to know so i can pace my questions over the sign that we have. i don't know if the number exist to your first question how many diplomats do we have being denied credentials? and i don't know because not everyone chooses to disclose their sexual orientation or sexual characteristics and those that think disclosure will not lead to the results that they want, they may not choose to disclose. >> do we know that there is at least one right now? we have at least one individual from our state department one death diplomat that is denied credentials or do we not even know that much? >> bringing up accreditation come i have an adjacent relationship to the issues of human resources but it's not squarely one of the issues that i work on so that i would have to get back to you make a mistake about data collection it is to

we can be , have state department be ready to trespond. there is more flexibly and the defense department funding and so that enables them to sometimes move more quickly. i think those would be top of my list in terms oftwo changes to make immediately . >> do you agree dod security assistance and cooperation programsunavoidably involve the foreign relations of the united states ? >> mister chairman i do believe that security assistance to be effective has to absolutely fall under therubric of our fallen policy interests . >> based upon action the secretary of state at n conference already over all the od foreign security assistance and cooperation activities to fulfill his statutory responsibility to oversee and coordinate allus foreign policy objectives ? >> thank you for raising this issue. the state department and department of defense staff worked very closely to collaborate on all these programs . >> that's a nonanswer. the reality is that there's one person statutorily who has the responsibility. for this assistance in terms of forei

states. as we discuss the bipartisan -- this bipartisan success story, i think it's important to acknowledge the significant role our committee played in drafting this legislation. last may after months of hard work, our committee unanimously reported out surface transportation re-authorization bill by a vote of 22-0 but before that happened, some of you know that the new president just went into office, asked me to pull together a small group of democrats and republicans off this committee to discuss the need for infrastructure legislation, roads, highways, bridges, as well as waterways, flood control. and it turns out a week or so after that, senator capito, senator cardin, senator inhofe and i joined the president and you -- you joined us remotely, mr. secretary. kamala harris, our vice president, was there in person. and the president called for us to -- as a committee that's known to work together on legislation to actually try to enact bipartisan legislation that focused on infrastructu

united states ruling even higher on the higher level. you mentioned a couple of western last or, and for a long time, those wars, the populations of those western countries were isolated from the consequences of those war, especially the americans who have the benefits of to oceans. but i think starting about rising, especially when syria, the europeans started to feel the pain 1st in the way, my grandson, that you know, responsibilities that they have to increasingly take for the african security nowadays, or with russian crisis. as you mentioned, the europeans are going to see the, in their stores in that pocket said that gas stations, et cetera. do you think they will still be housed in stockholm syndrome mentality and being a medium to the americans? or can it actually have an opposite effect? when to push comes to shock people, and when the, when, when the current is palpable enough, that people may actually changed our way of thinking and realize that perhaps the world is not. as they have been told it is. i think so, no later the

the state of our union is indeed strong. thank you. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> comcast is partnering with the thousand community centers to create wi-fi hotspots so students can get this of -- they need to be right for everything. >> comcast supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal." every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discuss policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, we get your reaction to president biden's state of the union address. join the conversation all morning with your phone calls, emails, facebook comments and tweets. we sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning on c-span and c-span now, our new mobile app. >> coming up wednesday on c-span. the house works to

and you said was that the united states, actually, what the united states actually need desperately needs is a model based on the constant everlasting threat of mutual destruction. so even if americans don't have an enemy that wants to pick up the fight with them, they will have to either in the back one or create some semblance apocalyptic strive. why would that be beneficial to washington? first of all, the political elite of the united states always knew that in order to to have the political programs and the, and to act the way they usually do the study. they always have someone who was willing to destroy the united states that was not important. that was saying, or wal mart duffy or but i said, we're all of them. so i don't know why they were so dangerous for the american people that the united states had spend billions of dollars to act and to start military campaigns of those stage or 2 to the lives of thousands of their own people. and also the citizen of the country they have invaded before. so this is the 1st target, the 2nd one. and you can see as soon as there is russia for th

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president biden's state of the union made clear that the united states remains strong and ready to face the immense challenges of our time, but to maintain that edge we must focus like a laser on addressing costs. that's what democrats will keep doing, and another thing we're doing today, that's happening today is a hearing in the commerce committee on shipping costs and a bipartisan bill by senators klobuchar and thune that will help reduce those costs. shipping costs affect every american. any good that comes from overseas has to be shipped here. on the post office, democrats have been working all week with republicans to push the biggest postal reform bill in years over the finish line, and today we're close. today we continue negotiations with the other side on their proposed list of amendments to the bill. as we continue to work on the deal, i filed cloture last night on the postal bill in order to keep the momentum going. at the end of the day, the vast majority of democrats and republicans want to see this bill sent to the president's desk quickly. so i hope we can arrive at an a

the department of state must lead this. soon after 9/11, there has been a continued trend towards giving up state authority as the purveyor of assistance, which provide 50% of assistance. most of the dod efforts are geared to short-term projects and perhaps necessary ones but not those that deal with the underlying problems of good governance and many without the concurrence of the secretary of state. the sole official charged in statute with overseeing and coordinating all such assistance. it's time for a reckoning. to this end i will be proposing legislation in the next few months to reform the u.s. security assistance process. i hope to work closely with the ranking member on this project. finally, let me turn to the news of the day. over the last two years, we have seen vladimir putin's savage aggression against a free and democratic ukraine. the destruction is of a scale and criminality not seen in europe since the second world war. the ukrainian people have heroically resisted, clearly frustrating and surprising the a

and state broadband initiatives. they have different requirements and the cities and towns across new hampshire are looking for assurances that there will be effective coordination among the states and the various federal agencies and ministering broadband programs. that coordination will be very important to serve more people and stretch the dollars further. we also know creating low cost options for reliable high-speed internet is crucial. we look forward to hearing how the department plans to work with states to develop the proposals as mandated by the bipartisan infrastructure law. these challenges are just the tip of the iceberg, but i would like you, madam secretary, to know that we on the subcommittee stand ready to assist the department as it executes these investments. it's no exaggeration to say these investments will transform the lives of tens of millions of americans. madam secretary, we know you understand as well and we very much look forward to your testimony this afternoon. with that, let me recogniz

very well stated by all three of you. we will begin questioning now under the five-minute rule, and i'm delighted to say there are 12 members of the house and senate participating in this hearing today, which should be an indication of the level of interest we have from both houses and both parties for our guests today in the countries they represent. let me just say that there's no doubt in my mind that russia would be aiming its troops at your three countries if you were not members of nato, so i want to express my support for our nato friends and for your membership and to say how much that means to us. mr. kols, you mentioned the three c's initiative, and madam chair, you specifically pointed to the challenge we have from china. i see the three cs initiative as a potential alternative to the economic dominance of the chinese bellton road initiative. if we could only enhance its participation and make sure it's as financially viable as it needs to be and provides the country's participating in the three cs initiative w

the state of our union is indeed strong. thank you. god bless you and god bless the united states of america.

state. it violated the affected nations charter and the reality is that russia pushed millions of ukrainians into the streets and this led to the most serious humanitarian crisis in europe since the second world war. russia is the one that for the past 15 years has been daily bombing -- 15 days of them bombing mariupol and other ukrainian cities. it is russia who is killing more ukrainians in a sense. neither disinformation or that -- can mask this harsh reality. neither will the law adopted by the voices against the war in russia. russia can neither russians nor the world. thank you. >> i think the representative france and go to the representative united kingdom. >> thank you mr. president. russia has brought to the international -- while completely and irresponsible conspiracy theories. let me put it diplomatically. they are utter nonsense. there is not a shred of credible evidence that ukraine has a biological weapons program. ukraine is a state party to the biological and toxic weapons

in united states and nato, we can only do so much. ultimately it is the people of russia who will have to decide how this ends and what happens next. >> i hated it that they walked him back, because it's what we all believe. nobody in the united states wants vladimir putin to continue to run russia, and nobody thinks and nobody should think that when this is over we can go back to like this never happened. i don't know how it's going to end. we can't go back to treating this guy like a legitimate world leader. the president said what's on all of our hearts. i do think it was a message for the russian people. when they came and said in the walk-back what he meant was -- that's not what he meant. that's not what he meant at all. what he meant is what's in our hearts. i understand the geopolitical ramifications. i get it. at some point how do you look at what's happening, the slaughter and say anything other than this man cannot be the world leader the way he is in this format. we cannot allow it. >> the focus needs to be on how we end t

article six of the convention states that "any state party to this convention, which finds that any state party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the convention may launch a complaint with the security council. if agreed by the security council, an investigation on the basis of the complaint received could be initiated." article six of the convention has never been activated. while these provisions have not been regularly used, they are nonetheless internationally agreed procedures that are available to be used to defuse tensions and to address and resolve any concerns relating to compliance with obligations under the bwc and the multinational setting. i would therefore encourage state parties to consider making use of the available procedures for consultation and cooperation in order to resolve these issues. madam president, distinguished members of the security council, situations such as this demonstrate the need to strengthen the bwc, to operationalize it and institutionalize it. i would therefore like to take this opportunity to encourage its state pa

state media. it's very tightly controlled. the messaging on particularly this war in ukraine, it's not going to change the calculus at the moment. was this speech heard in the kremlin? absolutely. will it be listened to in the short-term to change anything that's actually happening in ukraine at the moment? unlikely. for president putin, this is an existential crisis. this invasion doesn't seem to be going particularly well. at this point, it's either him or ukraine. and that is a very dangerous place to be, juju. >> james longman, thanks. >>> president biden had a lot of ground to cover tonight. how did he do? abc's maria villarreal has been talking to voters in houston. >> i'm in houston with a selective group of ten texans. they definitely watched all of the state of the union tonight. i actually watched them watching the state of the union. they have a lot of strong opinions. we want to get straight to it. the first has to do with the biggest conversation piece, which was ukraine and russia. l

they're nation state. but we have these transnational criminal organizations that go unnamed and, again, they're involved in the activities. not because they care so much about the activity itself, they want the money. we don't have an organized way to collect all of the intelligence on the money. what@s are they -- what yachts are they buying, what properties do they own, how do they move this heavily cash business into other goods and services? they move everything that can store value possible all over the world to try to clean up this money. we don't have the kind of pressure that was just brought to bear on vladimir putin going against the cartels. vladimir putin we finally recognized is evil after he invaded ukraine. but when he was doing the menacing, threatening activity when we had at least gone so far as to collect the intelligence, we didn't take the actions that could have stopped him. here we can't even go so far as to collect the right level of intelligence. intelligence is the first thing. t

i've come to report on the state of the nation, the state of the union and my report is this. the state of the union is strong because you the american people, our strong. >> as one people. united states of america. >> and you have been listening to president joe biden get his first official state of the union address speaking for just over an hour. he came out strong out of the box in terms of his discussion about the russian invasion of ukraine talking president bush putin being isolated by the world and also saying that the department of justice is assembling a task force to go after the oligarchs, their yachts, their jets, their luxury apartments that were gained by ill-gotten very powerful in terms of his discussion of russia also announced after them that the there's a ban all russian aircraft over american airspace, which is significant. >> because that affects a lot of airline traffic. and so on. also said of russian president vladimir putin. he has no idea what's coming. so it sounds like a despite the current sanctions in place, there's a possibility of even further

even state legislators. offices that will be important if the next presidential election is disputed. every one of his candidates i encounter is a proponent of the stolen election myth. >> thank you, sonny. great job you did in the administration. >> thompson: at a megachurch in arizona, patrick byrne brings me into the "reawaken america" tour. >> hello, sir. oh, hello. >> hi! >> hi! well, i love you, too. >> thompson: he is treated like a celebrity here. >> love "the deep rig." >> thank you. >> thompson: michael flynn is a star here, too. >> welcome back, we have america's general with us. >> many of you out there know who this amazing gentleman is. this is general michael flynn. >> you are going to hear from general flynn, and a number of other folks who will help equip you, prepare you, and give you a plan of action. >> thompson: mark finchem shares the stage. he's received trump's endorsement. >> we're talking about the fight for free and fair elections, okay? let's be honest, ladies and gentlemen. this

the president of the united states, the secretary of state tony blinken, other nato nations have all reiterated that sovereign lines, borders of countries must be respected. do you see parallels here between the russian invasion of ukraine and what morocco has done with western sahara? >> [indiscernible] 1975 the situation in 2022. many people heard about the suffering of the ukrainian people in the situation of the invasion of russia to this country, and in 1975 we share the same thing with ukrainian people. all the practices on us from moroccan people and from the regime. they threw the napalm on sarawhi civilians. all the sarawhis are suffering. we want the world -- we want to just live in peace. each country living in peace. that is why not a strong country invading another country. like nothing. we are believing in the same planet. mention there is actually a war between -- [indiscernible] amy: i want to end back with adrienne kinney, the past president of veterans for peace. as you enter the home of sultana khaya, this delegation of volunteers from the united states, in the mid

of state. the to this is hardly the first time we've tangled. united states you recall waged a proxy war against the russian government for 11 years in vietnam. nearly 60,000 americans died in that war. and yet no american president mention regime change at the kremlin. why? they were soft on the russians? no. russia has about 6,000 nuclear weapons. what say we eliminated the russian head of state and that countries social government. what would happen to those weapons? let's see. in iraq, saddam's pok style went into the hands of militias used to kill americans. russia has a large and restive population of islamic extremist and we think that it's possible with no one around the country, we have no chosen successor to putin, if we did that one of the 6,000 nuclear weapons might wind up in the hands of some anti-american terror group and be used against our civilian population here? a nuclear weapon! it's not just possible, it's likely. and that's if we were to succeed in killing putin. what if

[applause] >> please welcome the 64th united states secretary of state madeleine albright. >> you are known the world around but that was not your birth name how did you get a name like madeleine? >> first of all that's not may first name. but my grandmother apparently there is a play in prague when i was a little girl called madeleine in the brick factory. she decided the name madeleine was a good name however my mother never pronounced anything right. i had no idea how to spell it and it was not intel's switzerland that they decided my name was madeleine spelled the french way but my legal name is still mariana when i first got my passport issues. then you have to sign your name right away split madeleine and they would say this is not you and i say it is. so it was not until i was secretary of state and make it actually order up a passport. [laughter] >> when he became secretary of state what did you feel more pride in the fact that you are a woman or naturalized citizen or how do you compare those pleasures? >> it's hard to separate i did a priest being the first and the woman was

no and neither will many states and not just the states. estimates 40% of children will not participate in "build back better" program. according to state licensing agency. 80% of georgia four -year-olds are currently being signed by license program in georgia today meeting only such as home with parents, grandparents or nanny in the providing the program as written in "build back better" carefully crafted bipartisan compromise already in place which use expand services and increase wages immediately the naysayers will tell you it's too broken to be used to expand access to childcare will make it affordable for families use pandemic for your to do just that with again georgia has eliminated co-pays all staff including custodians chefs received $3000 in supplemental wages directly from the state stabilization dollars grants to providers further support employee wages destabilization grants wages benefits and family tuition relief when the funds and. georgia has increased provider graham reimbursement rates by 15% and georgia has increased th

the state department of hhs is the agency responsible for running our state's medicaid program which provides health coverage to more than 1 million south carolinians. it also coordinates care for south carolinians who are dually eligible. her testimony today comes from her more than 18 years of experience working on this issue in both south carolina and florida where she recently moved from. she has dedicated her career to working on behalf of older americans and americans with disabilities, those who are our most vulnerable and who need this assistance the most. ms. medina is one of the thousands of public servants who work every single day to make the lives of south carolinians better. welcome to this hearing and welcome to south carolina. >> thank you, ranking member scott. next i will introduce dennis heafey, a health and justice advocate and researcher at the massachusetts disability policy consortium. dennis is also a commissioner on the medicaid and chip payment and access commission known as macpac, the nonpartisan body that provides expert recommendations to congress on way

what is happening, if you can, state-by-state, region by region? are we seeing the cities start to heat up again? are people coming back from the suburbs and returning to work? what is the nature of the change? michael: big demographic shifts in the sun belt states, expensive places like california to some of the cheaper markets, it is actually underway. but what's interesting is the inventory shortage is everywhere. the demand is across the board and across all price points. even while those -- the migration shifts are underway, these are not -- the hot housing market is not ever in the country. caroline: great to get your analysis. great data continue get at altos research. still ahead, the megamerger in the cannabis space. a ceo will be speaking with us. $2 billion acquisition of columbia care. joining us in a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm caroline hyde. let's talk m&a right now. buying new york-based clinic care for to be the adults in one of the biggest cannabis purchases of the year. ceo charles bac