an injunction issued an order to hold funds for planned parenthood of utah. you have vowed to fight that really is a presumptuous to call before planned parenthood? i don't think it's presumptuous because we know the parent organization has caused some controversy. anyone has seen the videos. some kind of assumption that they were colleagues in medicine and science and we didn't know that is why we have a moment of candor. that should cause us all a little bit applause. i do do not discount the fact that planned parenthood does some good things. but that is not to paint over the concerns we have with what we viewed on the videos. that beingvideos. that being said, the more important issue is to make sure we were able to provide for women's healthcare and what ever form of fashion we think is important in our states. we have 41 different locations41 different locations in the state of utah were women's healthcare issues are being addressed. most all of them provide the word mammograms. i just believei just believe that we have not a lot of money in the state of utah, less than $275,0

to speak not only on behalf of the people of utah's governor but also on behalf of the national governors association a significant bipartisan organization that is serving the public well and the great state of utah and the other 49 states and our territories. people asked me how it is that i was able to get the support of the other 49 governors to become the chair of the national governors association. i thought long and hard about that and i came to the conclusion that i'm the only governor not running for president. [laughter] has opened up an opportunity for me. i feel it's an opportunity and i'm grateful to be here with a lot of friends and the chamber of commerce tommy berg who does an excellent job with his reporting and the vice president of the national press club. for those of you who i don't know i'm a will rogers sky were a stranger's just a friend i have never met so i look forward to meeting with u.n. chatting about things that are important to you. the national governors association has a significantly important organization and that it brings her governors of our

and onto utah and lake powell. the mountains above the silverton are rich in minerals and metals. which attracted miners to the area start in 1860s. mining support companies followed along with other businesses to develop as a community flourished. some you would recognize such as the renowned durango silverton narrow gauge railroad. others you may not, but they encompass many different types of enterprises such as tourism related businesses including rafting, bike stores, hiking and outdoor outfitters come hunting and fishing guides, hotels, restaurants and other related support services. la plata county also has considerable agricultural interests including organic, organic farms, ranches rely on the waters to support the operations. then there are the businesses you'd expect to find in a thriving community including retail and grocery stores, real estate offices, banks, and although the services that support our economy. all of these great businesses employ a few to hundreds of people, and this bill is impacted all of them in some way. use of the gold king mine spread far and

upcoming supreme court term. and then utah governor gary herbert on how states interact with the federal government. and democratic state legislatures take part part in the annual innovation conference. the supreme court begins its new term on monday. the pacific legal foundation and the national review previewed high cases the court will consider this year. ramesh ponnuru moderates this hour and 15 minute discussion. >> from the washington, d.c. center. the national review and the pacific legal foundation is honored to welcome you here today with the hurricane coverage and the to hundreds of thousands of people across the country who are tuning in by c-span. we would also like to thank jones day for this nice roof and staff assistance to -- for putting this together. as for plf, our interest in the supreme court mirrors brief attention. we will have as many as eight petitions pending before the justice involving cases that we have filled and i think that is probably the most of any public interest legal organization. we have seven straight wins in the supreme court. so we hope t

the efficacy rates. so what the data shows is that utah patients about this and make them aware of the various efficacy rates they will often on the road choose iud and implant for themselves and so i think my colleague talks about coercion which is really important piece of this year. we shouldn't be forcing women to do anything. they should be given a true choice. the choice they have right now is not a true choice. but they are doing six times as many iuds and implants than they were before the training. what's interesting though is the revenue is up 400%, and that's largely because of word-of-mouth. when women know they can get these methods they also tell their friends, patient volume is way up, patient satisfaction is higher. as we ask patients who chose the method, did you choose it with your provider or did your provider choose it for you and it's a really important question because we want to make sure that what we are finding is upwards of the full information they make great choices. another area that we are seeing a huge issue is the background piece of information that

to this conclusion. last week we asked the gentleman from utah, is there any evidence that planned parenthood has broken any law. and no, i am not suggesting that they broke the law. i would like to conclude that this hearing, much like the broader attack on planned parenthood may be a political theater. designed to rally the conservative base of rollback. in practice, these investigations have had little to do with the videos which some went to great lengths at the last hearing. and that includes the most conservative elements of one of the parties during an interparty leadership crisis. we may have a legitimate difference of opinion but it remains the law of the land and many women in the health care system go to planned parenthood coming back from a six in 10 women who received services at a family planning center consider their primary source and it makes up an incredibly small amount of the services it provides. [inaudible] 80% detected abnormalities that could have signaled a greater of cancer. so many others, planned parenthood saves lives. so until they attempted a fun plan

-op in utah plans to raise its premiums by 58% starting in january, just to be able to stay open. is that what the president promised when he said rates would drop $2,500 per family? in montana, the rates are set to go up 43% for some co-op plans. that's not what anyone in america needs, and it's certainly not what rural americans need. president obama said that the american people were going to get more choices, more choices, he said, because of his law, instead of getting fewer choices. and yet he stands up and boldly says, it's working better than he expected. obamacare created the illusion of coverage. now even the illusion is disappearing. what's even worse for rural americans is that it's not just the coverage that's turning out to be an illusion under obamacare. the care is actually disappearing. earlier this month, we learned that mercy hospital in independence, kansas, will be closing soon. this is the 56th rural hospital to close in the united states since 2010, when obamacare became law. another 238 hospitals are in danger of closing. the added expense, the regulations, th

from utah. >> i would caution members. i've heard my name several times. members, please e. careful using this. the context of the comments that i made were in relationship to a hearing is the chairman of as the chairman of the oversight committee that i conduct it. the hearing that we conducted was about the finances of planned parenthood. we didn't get into the content of what they do or the content of the video. we didn't get into the practices that they do or into the fetal body tissue. we didn't do that. we were very narrowly focused on the finances. the place we were making his planned parenthood had a revenue of $127 million more and we started to book as a nonprofit organization on what people were making and how they were spending that money. they were spending it overseas, they were spending money giving it to political organizations, they have a lot of shared services. i think that is a legitimate question when we look at the finances of an organization that is structured as a nonprofit. i would ask questions about the direct finances that's the way that i took the questi

gentleman from utah, is there any evidence that planned parenthood has broken any law? mr. j fits answered with the truth, no, i am not suggesting that they broke the law. i am led to conclude that this hearing much like the broader attack on planned parenthood may be political theater. maybe. designed to rally the conservative base and rollback constitutional right to choose wherever possible. in practice these investigations have had little to do with the videos which some went to great lengths not to discuss at our last hearing. they had everything to do with appeasing the most conservative elements giant editorship party leadership process and a fractious presidential primary. they may have a legitimate difference of opinion on roe v wade, but it remains the law of the land. in an attempt by some to relitigate the 40 -year-old decision places thousands of lives risk. many women enter the healthcare system through a family planning provider. in fact, six in ten women who who receive services at a publicly funded family planning center consider it their primary source of medical

is totally black. thank you very much. >> majority leader kevin mccarthy, utah congressman and florida congressman are running to replace house speaker who is stepping down later this month. we get an update from texas republican congressman bill florez and spoke to a reporter. >> chairman of the republican study committee. your group met earlier with the three members running for house speaker. what did those candidates have to say? >> first of all, we had a great meeting meeting with over 100 of our membership in attendance. all three of the candidates did a really nice job of expressing their opinions about the direction they would later conference and presumably the country. they talked about how we can unify the party, the processes we would use, the way that we would develop our agenda and messaging, and the other parts of their individual personalities that they thought could help us get across the finish line in order to be a very successful and pacesetting conference. >> majority leader kevin mccarthy daniel webster of florida and from jason j fits oversight chair, wha

incone retirement o 2500 dollars a persn per year. this is from an estimate done by aarp in utah by people who need that type of direct loan. i can be huge cost. >> to follow dianne and i think understanding that individuals don't have access could create greater burdens for state and local government. the other thing i would say is it a aarp, we want to look to see if we can increase savings what would that mean for long-term and it's substantial. increasing savings is a way for us to boost our economy and i think that's on the left and right. that's the desirable in -- outcome. we have evidence to support that. >> some people say that the looming retirement crisis is the result of poor choices are personal and aptitude and i think it's important to talk a little bit about messaging because on this panel we might all be preaching to the choir but we were thinking about building public and political will. what do you say to people who claim people should have saved more. it's on them if they don't have savings for their retirement. >> clearly if you look at the experience of the vas

or their designees. mr. hatch: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: mr. president, two months ago, i came to the senate floor in my capacity as president pro tempore to speak to my colleagues about the importance of maintaining decor and decorum and respect in this body. i reminded them that decorum is essential to the proper functioning of the senate and to its unique role in our constitutional structure. the framers designed the senate to be an institution of deliberation and reason where members would work to promote consensus and the common good rather than their partisan interests. today i rise once more in my capacity as president pro tempore, and this time to discuss another defining feature of this body, the right to extended debate. the framers designed the senate to serve as a necessary fence against the fickleness and passion that drives hasty law making. what edmond randolph called the turbulence and follies of democracy. james madison in turn described the senate as a bulwark against what i called the transient impressions into wh