in colorado. i was in denver, colorado. it was during christmastime and i was riding and working on one of my books and i was really struggling with this idea of, man, how do you find a job you really love? want to do something i'm passionate about, make a difference. i was asking all these big questions that i think my generation is asking, but as i'm asking these questions, i start to notice that there's this barista, this gentleman in his 30s making drinks, and he's talking to a lot of people, and i start to notice that as people get their drinks, and this is a crowded christmas coffee shop. i mean, it is packed, but when -- when people get their drinks, they are not leaving, so they are getting their drinks and they are staying in the line where you usually get your drinks, and they all have their drinks, but they are all waiting there, and i'm like what is going on? why are all these people with their drinks, but they are not leaving, you know. it is so packed in here. get out of here, everybody. you know, it was starting to make me nervous. i was feeling claustrophobic, but th

significant increases in colorado, florida and the rest. we will go to specific twitter. two years in a row of a 20% increase, this is not sustainable. the question is, what happens in the future? >> one result of increases is insurers have become profitable. it shows that insurers in the individual market are going to be more profitable in 2017 than they were prior to the aca. they are seeing a larger margin and they are earning it from a lot more people. the point is there is money to be made. >> they could then begin to level off at a rate of general medical inflation. as long as things don't get rocky. it's capable for the market to achieve a delicate balance between the right type of competition and pricing. obviously the point is the market is on thin ice. it wouldn't take much to disrupted. the question is, are there disruptive signs ahead? >> we now know that there were. there were a number of signs as said by our informants. i think we are heading a stable place. i think it's okay to come back into this market and next year will be much better. since then it is - if the state isn't

increases, colorado, florida and the rest. we'll go to specific stories later. but the point is, two years in a row of mid-20% increases, this is not sustainable. and the question is what happens in the future. but one result of these increases is that insurers have become profitable and perhaps handsomely profitable, so this is released by the council of economic advisers recently. it shows that insurers in the individual market are now more profitable as of 2017 than they were prior to the aca. that is, they were earning a larger margin than they were before and they're earning it for a lot more people. to the point there is money to be made, so having achieved that, this option is they could then begin to level off at the rate of medical inflation, as long as things don't get rocky again. so it's capable for this market to achieve a delicate balance between, you know, the rights -- type of competition and the right type of pricing, but obviously the point of this, as somebody said, the market is still on thin ice and wouldn't take much to disrupt it. so the question is, are t

. house of representatives from 1973 through 1997. as a democrat from colorado, when elected, she was one of only 14 congresswomen. next, she talks about balancing work with raising a family. her assignment to the house armed services committee and he, her assignment to the house armed services committee and her experience as one of the founding members of the congresswoman's caucus. the house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview, which is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson. i'm with matt wisniewski, the house historian, and today we're very happy to be interviewing former congresswoman, pat schroeder, from colorado. and this interview is for the jeannette rankin oral history project that we're working on to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her election and her swearing in to congress. so again, we're very pleased you're here today, congressman schroeder. thank you for coming. >> thank you. i'm delighted to be here. >> when you were young, did you have any female role models? >> probably two. eleanor roosevelt, i was raised

colorado. she was one of only 14 congresswomen. she talks about balancing work with raising a family. her assignment to the house armed services committee, and her experience as one of the founding members of the congresswoman's caucus. the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview, which is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson i'm with matt wisniewski, the house historian and we're happy to be interviewing former congresswoman pat schroeder from colorado. this interview is from the gener jeanette rankin oral history project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her swearing in to congress. thank you for coming. >> thank you, i'm delighted to be here. >> we want to start off today just with a few general questions before we get a little more specific. when you were jung, did you have any female role models? >> probably two. eleanor roosevelt. i was raised thinking she was an absolutely incredible woman. and amelia earhart. those were two women who fascinated me as a young child. >> what drew you to those two women? >> my

annual western conservative summit hosted by colorado christian university's centennial institute. while in denver the attorney general discussed religious freedom, crack down on violent crime, illegal immigration and the opioid epidemic. his remarks followed by actor kirk cameron. >> please welcome 710 knus radio show host. [ applause ] >>> good afternoon. it's a great privilege to be able to introduce kirk cameron. i know that many of you are going to know him from a long time back. i suspect that if there was a single individual who embraces the theme of this conference it would be kirk cameron. you know, the posts up there you can see the f word faith, family, freedom, future. i remember watching an interview with kirk cameron. he talked about his faith in no uncertain terms. one person responded that this was odd and extreme. but i'm wondering how many of you who believe in the loving god and that human beings are created in the image of god and that god has a plan for you and that faith and family and freedom and future matter. if it really does matter to you, i want you to

phillips, the colorado baker. >> the bake shop case was one of the reasons that the term was described as one that was going to be momentous. and i would say that it wound up being sort of lomentous in this case. we'll talk about gerrymandering and where there was nomeentous. this case came out of the colorado state courts and involved the colorado discrimination statute which said if you are a public accommodation that includes bakeries, retail establishments, that you may not discriminate in the offering of goods and services on various grounds, including at the time sexual or yenation. i should note this was before colorado recognized same sex marriage but it had already changed its public accommodation discrimination statute to preclude sexual discrimination based on sexual orientation. and the bangker, jack phillips,e makes custom cakes in addition to a lot of thing that is are on display in his shop. and a same sex couple came in asking for a wedding cake. and he declined to make a wedding cake for them. there's a lot of disagreement, actually, in the brief set in the opinions of th

going to ask him to go first. he represents a district in colorado, and just won the nomination as democratic governor of colorado. [ applause ] so congratulations, and best of luck. before he ran for office, jared created several businesses, very successful businesses, as well as several charter schools. so we are delighted to have you with us. it's all yours. >> thank you. >> so i've been actively involved with education for about 20 years. i ran for state board of education in the year 2000 in colorado. it was a great opportunity to get involved with the real policy side of education in our state. the state board of education set the standards. also was involved with adjudicated dispute it is a charter school was turned down by a district, that the state board had the opportunity to overturn that. and as an entrepreneur, somebody who started several companies, i got real excited when i was reading through these charter school applications to adjudicate them. and i said, you know what? i ought to start a school myself. and particularly serving young people that were needed a tail

out of the colorado state court and it involves the application of colorado's public accommodation discrimination statute which says if you are a baker or retail establishment, you may not discriminate in the officer -- offers of goods and services on grounds including sexual orientation. i should note this was before colorado recognized same-sex marriage but it had already changed the public accommodation statute to preclude discrimination based on sexual orientation. the baker in the case, jack phillips is a cake artist that makes custom cakes in addition to a lot of things that are on display in his shop. the same-sex couple came in asking for a wedding cake. he declined to make a wedding cake for them. there is a lot of disagreement actually in the opinions of the court about billy what exactly went on. what his policy was and what what services he refused to provide. i think the understanding of watch the court decided the case was that he said he would sell them other items in his shop. if they wanted to buy cupcakes out of the displaced case, he would happily sell that to th

a year. this windmill ran a sawmill in colorado until 2000. you can see the different pieces of equipment that it ran. there is a drill press, a sorghum grinder, press, a water pump. they would move those belts on and off the wheels to send power to the wheel that was most effective. one of the thing that probably cap air motor a live was they were always thinking forward, of course, but you think about the pioneer woman, that long dress with all those petticoats? if mom is home by herself, the kids at school, dad is south, and she has an open gear windmill and it needs to be boiled, she is the one that gets to oil it. air motor thought about that. they said, mom is a pretty special person. she does neat stuff for us. we need to do something to make her life a little easier. so they made what they called the woman's windmill. she could lower it down, lock into place over here, and with a long broomstick and oil rags, oil it from the ground. the american women's museum post mill, and it was representative of the first windmill and colonial america in 1621. that mill was brought o

is the director of the colorado parks and wildlife, and not strickler who is the secretary of natural resources for the commonwealth of virginia. thank you to you both for being here. i hope you have enjoyed and benefited from the testimony of governor mead. as you are readying your testimony, we ask you limit your testimony for 5 minutes, so there is time for questions. with that, welcome to the committee, and please proceed at your leisure. >> thank you, and thank you for the warm welcome. thank you for the opportunity to represent the governor of colorado who could not be here and asked me to come instead, and to discuss my experiences as a state director who is at the frontlines of management of threatening endangered species conservation. as i provided in testimony, the governor has not taken a position on this draft, but has been supportive of the governors association process that governor mead had laid out, and continuing this dialogue with congress for a bipartisan solution that improve the implementation of the endangered species act. for the past 25 years, i have ha

representative pat schroeder. she was the first woman elected to represent colorado in congress. then house of representatives historians explain their project to learn from the lawmakers' experiences. that's followed by their interview with former congresswoman susan molinari. >>> pat schroeder served in the u.s. house of representatives from 193 to 1997 as a democrat from colorado. she was one of only 14 congresswomen. she talks about balancing work with raising a family. her assignment to the house armed services committee, and her experience as one of the founding members of the congresswoman's caucus. the u.s. house of representatives office of the historian conducted this interview, which is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> my name is kathleen johnson i'm with matt wisniewski, the house historian and we're happy to be interviewing former congresswoman pat schroeder from colorado. this interview is from the gener jeanette rankin oral history project to commemorate the 100th

midwest from canada to arkansas, from indiana to colorado. it is twice as big occasion its cities and its citizens pause for a portrait in youthful anticipation of tomorrow. fairbanks, the most central city many state is the hub of trading, transportation and supply for all of interior alaska. it's a welcome sight to alaska highway travelers, end to a road that began 1,500 at dawson, british columbia, canada. in fairbanks, the focal point of the centennial, the city is ready to play host to some 300,000 visitors, prideful of its historic past. the gleam of yellow gold built fairbanks, boom town warehouse and supply first the stampeding settlers. memories of that are kept alive today. in gold rush days, the steamers left from dawson following the melting ice down the yukon river and the tananawa. you can repeat part of that adventure. although it's hard to make a living panning for gold. instead the emphasis is on education and its growth of an index in expansion in fairbanks and all of alaska in 1950, the population was some 6,000 people. today there are 6,000 school children in the city.

hayes. they moved to colorado springs in 1880. at several children. one changed his name from hayes to hayes davis in honor of jefferson davis. today, there are direct descendents of jefferson davis and some of them still bear the name hayes davis. jefferson davis spent two years in prison in hampton, virginia. he was released in may 18 6700 of habeas corpus. of habeasd -- a writ corpus. the trial was postponed and eventually dropped. although he had been indicted for treason he was ultimately never tried. he spent time in canada, in montreal and lenox hill, kobach. -- quebec. he spent time in europe and france. he was in memphis, tennessee for a few years at the president of an insurance company. he removed himself from the company and moved to the gulf coast of mississippi to a plantation. he wrote a very long book called the rise and fall of the confederate government, and settled into retirement. he spent the last 12 years in his life at the plantation and died at the age of 81. back in richmond. his habeas corpus hearing was in richmond, ironically not only in the former capita

west virginia a few years ago, the goat king mine in colorado, and of course, most recently, flynt, michigan, which has become the poster child for our need to improve risk communication. i do believe we have great risk communicators across the agency. and in every program office and every region. and i'm not finding fault with what individuals are saying on risk. but i am saying we need to be consistent across the board. it doesn't matter which region you live in, you're getting the same information about the same type of environmental risk you might face in your community. the reality is that risk communication disproportionately impacts people at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. they are the ones who often live, work, or go to school in areas with environmental hazards. and they are the most impacted by how well or how poorly we communicate to them. epa owes it to the american public to be able to explain in very simple, easy to understand terms what are the risks that they face in their daily lives. when i worked here in the agency, we offered a number of different tr

lines of discussions on china, i recently was brought to my attention a business in colorado that has an employee that moved to china from taiwan, they had a plant in taiwan, this employee was hired in taiwan, allegedly took some interelectricity ul property with them to taiwan. they replicated the manufacturing process in china from taiwan. intellectual property. they replicated the manufacturing process, used the stolen information, allegedly. now a court in china has accused the u.s. firm of violating copyrights and patents. and so this is just a sign of things that we have to work on. i don't like the tariff approach. i want to be clear. there is a letter i'd read that talked about 25% cost being passed on to people in agriculture, buying sweeps and other equipment they'd use in cultivation practices because of the steel tariffs. we have to do something about china but i hope that u.s. businesses don't succumb. bullying pressure china has pursued. >> thank you for that, senator. we in the u.s. government want to make sure our businesses are not bullied. as an aside, you've ref

liability it is interesting to join the colorado brief they did not disclaim they did not disclaim state would have that issue themselves that is a threatening construct that direct marketers are seriously concerned about congress should act to say no retroactive liability and congress should establish a moratorium a six-month moratorium letting companies make the adjustment who are obligated to collect and then adopt very reasonable amplification documents in addition to those items that are a part of the streamlined sales and use tax that jennifer is referring to. in rate amplification one rate per state for all commerce make sense. companies should not be subject to 4060 but then there over 500 home jurisdiction one audit on behalf of all participating state. there is no reason why the definition of profit should var vary. in his dissenting opinion the chief justice says why should twix and knickers fee subject to different tax in the same state? it is sent why should teachers in one state he in another state? this doesn't take any money away from the states all the guys is take

have on state policies. there may be some efforts in colorado this year to once again try to ban oil and gas production. the eia estimates in august we could have about 611,000 barrels of oil being produced in the state of colorado. this is an incredible number. what happens if you were to see success in banning oil production in a state like colorado with that level of production? >> thank you, senator gardner. what we would do in that case is forgo an opportunity to avoid a real problem. if you look back at 2011 and 2012 when crude oil prices were $100, gas prices were $4 a gallon, we lost libya, and then we put sanctions on iran. spare capacity was really tight. the reason we didn't go back to 150 there a$150 a barrel in 201 is because shale oil production kind of galloped over the hill and started ramping up just in the nick of time. even though shale is much more responsive and does act more quickly in response to prices, you have to have states open for permitting, you have to have openness to resources, the takeaway capacity, because all energy production needs a solo lice

acorn. and their voter registration efforts in nevada and colorado and florida and other places where they were registering people. there was in indiana about 2,100 voter registration forms that were invalidated because they were filled out by the same person. there was another 5,000 that were set aside because of that. you had a lady who was leading the 2010 effort in nevada. a project vote program for acorn that was under indictment, amy lucifink. and the situation in colorado where they pressured the colorado agencies with people who were on public assistance, and their fraudulent registration rate was four times the national average. so there are other ways to influence the jut come of an election -- outcome of an election other than manipulating the vote tally on election day. is that a fair assessment? >> sir, i don't have experience in that side of the process. i would have to defer to the election officials at the table. >> anyone want to respond to that? mr. hatch? >> there will be an attempt to med until the elections, whether through a cyber security attack or through influ

past week, i had the opportunity to travel across western colorado where they're dealing with a number of forest fires. over the past several months this congress has passed a number of policies that will help to address those forest fire concerns, including passage of language that will allow better management of our forest, including policies that have ended the practice of fire borrowing that has allowed incident commanders fighting r forest fires to do a better job to make decisions and help protect our communities and keep our forests from the catastrophes that we've seen. i also want to touch on the supreme court nomination last night. what we saw last night was for many on the left, simply mindless partisanship. i'm going to read a press release that was sent out from one liberal organization. in response to donald trump's nomination of xx to the supreme court of the united states, the following statement was relea released. trump's announcement today is a death sentence. apparently nominee xx was a death sentence. it didn't matter who he chose, what he selected -- who he

of california and congresswoman janet of colorado. any one else join us, i'll acknowledge as will be sure that everyone is here is acknowledged. other members tied up in other committees now who send their regards, their thoughts, their concerns, their suggestions on how we go forward. they will all provide incite into the deep damage that the president has cause today our democracy and to all western democracies under the threat from putin. it's really sad, it's almost heartbreaking to acknowledge this. in 1975, america and the western world united to counter the soviet threat by forming the helsinki formation. president ford was part of the negotiation and also signing the accord. it's strange and disturbing and heartbreaking that president trump threw out the values that were the basis of the helsinki commission when he was cowering before president putin yesterday. instead of standing up for our democracy and democratic principles, president trump cowered in the presence of putin and the entire world watched and saw that. trump's eagerness to sell out america, the russians must h

pleasure of going out to colorado repeatedly and it functioned fairly well. i feel other states will be taking that into account, like rhode island, to see what kind of audits can be done. if states have audits on the books but they're not conducting them, then that's where the real problem lies. >> okay. and i'll just want to stress that every state does a canvass. the canvasses do cover a lot of that. some states can do risk-limiting audits, some cannot, depending on the type of systems they're using. but all the states do some sort of auditing in some form or another. >> it's voluntary for the states and the type of audit they conduct, but the follow-up is, to your knowledge, every state is doing some type of audit? >> i think every state is doing some type of audit, if not at least the canvass, before they can certify an election. i would assume that would be considered part of an audit if you're going to canvass the election before you certify it. >> thank you. my time is up. thank you, mr. chair. >> senator king. >> thank you. first, i want to thank you for calling this hearing

religious views that oppose same-sex marriage and there was a finding by a colorado commission that the baker's refusal in this instance violated the colorado public accommodations measure and there were a couple of different claims there. one was a compelled speech claim and the other was exercise to write the opinion in incredibly narrow fashion. he says and he puts a lot of emphasis on one of the commissioner saying that the baker's justification was was inappropriate use, invocation of religion. this sort of argument had been repeatedly used for the holocaust and to justify the holocaust and slavery in these horrible things. justice kennedy said it violated the first amendment. and free exercise clause in the sense that it was not neutral toward the baker's legitimately held religious beliefs. so one notable thing about this opinion is that kennedy writes our society has come to the recognition that a gay person and gay couples cannot be treated as social avenue s or as inferior in dignity and worth. what is notable is that justice alito joined that part of the opinion and justi

around colorado city, texas, south of here, and eventually established his own ranch, so it is just a great story of someone coming in and , andg their own way establishing their own ranch. so he actually built this frame structure, a boxing strip house, but it is kind of unique. it is built in the shape of a cross, and has four porches on each side. it enables great airflow and is a great architectural design that really took advantage of capturing the cooler wind, protecting the house from the elements, and it was a great design for this part of texas, but really, the part i get in thrall to about is the story of john and how he can establish his own ranch and made his own way. toward the end of his lifetime, they actually discovered oil on his land, so he died a millionaire and made for his family to actually go on for subsequent generations, to go to and continue to live on portions of the land today. we have actually had members of the family that came back here to celebrate family reunions john house, so. we are extremely proud of that fact, that the legacies of many of these ra

for your responding to a concern that was raised by a whistleblower in denver, colorado, that led to -- within the v.a. oig and that pulling it to a higher level to make sure there's no conflict of interest. i want to thank you for being so responsive to that. let me raise an issue of accountability. i guess it's different than what was raised in that i am concerned that -- if you could relay this to the incoming secretary. at the senior executive management level, that we have had individuals in these positions who have had multiple negative reports, either by goa or v.a. oig that have never been cleaned up. yet, these people are allowed to remain there. specifically, we are going to be opening a vc.a. hospital in colorado this saturday. the individual that was responsible for the last person there in charge of the project for the v.a. standpoint in terms of construction management, that led to -- ultimately led to a billion dollars in cost overretuove overruns, five years behind schedule, i led the fight in the congress to replace the team with the army corps of engineers. without

first woman elected to represent colorado in congress. then house of representatives historians explain their project to learn from the lawmakers' experiences. that's followed by their interview with former congresswoman, susan molinari. >> wednesday night, we'll lack at presidential speech writing, including former speechwriters for bill clinton and george w. bush, talking about how they communicated policy ideas from the president's point of view. american history tv in prime time begins each night this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> this august, on american strooe tv on c-span-- history t our nine-part series, america in turmoil. we'll look back to that year marked with war, political assassinations, and the rise of political left and right. starting monday, august 6th, we'll discuss the vietnam war. on tuesday, august 7th, a look at the presidential campaign of that area. wednesday, august 8th, civil rights and race relations. on thursday, august 9th, a discussion about liberal politics, and friday, august 10th, conservative politics. on friday, august 11th, women's rights.

questions i have -- and i think maybe colorado has actually thought about this -- is, you know, as you think about election monitoring are any states actually looking at evaluating how some of the social media platforms may be communicating or miscommunicating to voters within your states and could some of the hava funds be used to acquire that expertise? >> i would say that this is nothing new in terms of the information -- misinformation being put out. it used to be that the information would be posters, republicans vote on wednesday, democrats vote on thursday. now it's a lot quicker through social media. >> but now you can touch a whole universe or the world at large with the stroke of a keystroke. >> correct. we at the ac we've met with some of the technology groups, those information or social media groups to find out some of the things they're doing to ensure that this doesn't happen again or ways to prevent it. they've given us some assurances of things that they've put in place for this, but i feel that there still -- i don't believe that the hava funds overall can be used tow

individual mandate. they limit these as an attractive coverage. there are states like colorado as louise mentioned that preaca had limits on them as well. some states since the president's announcement in october have either in their legislatures or pushing for or have enacted limits include states like illinois, hawaii, maryland, vermont, and california's bill looks highly likely to pass. there is action on reinsurance. we have a interesting mix in blue states and red states pursue that option. so oregon, arkansas -- i'm sorry, alaska and minnesota implemented theirs spending before cms and include maryland, new jersey, wisconsin, and maine. i think it's an interesting mini trend of states that currently operate on healthcare do t.gov are pursuing a shift to a state run platform that would give them a lot more flexibility over the operation of the marketplace and be able to do things like extend open enrollment, support outreach and navigate our programs morrow bustly. on the flip side, there are states that are embracing sort of a new environment at the federal level that encourages re

cameron, jeff sessions, and cory gardner speaking at this year's western conservative summit in colorado. >> we're hammering criminals and violent groups, especially ms-13, that vicious gang. it's one of the most violent and inhumane groups in the world. their motto, get this, kill, rape, and control. >> this week in prime time, on c-span, c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. >>> sunday night on "q&a," freelance journalist tom dunkel on his article, "locked and loaded for the lord," on sun myung moon. >> what's going on at the sanctuary church in pennsylvania is a commingling of a lot of undercurrents in the country, of religion, politics, and guns, to a degree we haven't seen before. it's still a small church. there's no question about that. sean has a worldwide following. my guess would be maybe 200 people in the congregation total up in pennsylvania, and 500,000 worldwide. of course in these days you can follow a church on youtube, all the sermons are webcast every week. it's that commingling of passion in america. and what does this say about us as a culture. and what is thi

last minute to someone who would like a minute. i'll yield to my colleague from colorado. >> thank you very much. i just want to thank you, doctor, for coming today. i really look forward to hearing what the organization is doing to implement the reforms in 21st century cures, particularly the mental health aspect of the bill were issues this committee worked on many years trying to get it right and i'm not sure we yet have it right. i yield back. >> there is a vote on the floor, but with the committee's permission we'll finish with our opening staples before adjourning for the vote and i'll recognize the gentleman from oregon. >> thank you very much. we appreciate that. we appreciate your convening this hearing. it's really important we do oversight on how 21st century cures and the one of the bipartisan changes incorporated therein are now being implemented. i want to thank our colleagues on the committee here now and certainly dr. tim murphy who is a real leader in the congress on mental health reform for his work on this as well. these policies were the result of a multi-year multi

aca coverage. of course, there are states like colorado, as louise mentioned, that pre-aca had limits on them as well. but some states that sense the president's announcement in october have either in their legislatures are pushing for or have enacted limits, include states like illinois, hawaii, maryland, vermont, and california's bill looks highly likely to pass. of perhaps broader interest and appeal as the prior panel discussed is action on re-insurance. we've seen a mix of blue states and red states pursue that option, so oregon, arkansas -- i'm sorry, alaska, and minnesota, of course, have implemented theirs pending before cms include maryland, new jersey, wisconsin, and maine. i also think it's interesting -- there's an interesting mini-trend of states that currently operate on healthcare.gov that are pursuing a shift to a state-run platform that would give them potentially a lot more flexibility over the operation of their marketplace and be able to do things like extend open enrollment, support outreach and navigator programs more robustly. these include nevada, new mexico, a

was that people of mexican descent in new mexico and southern colorado were poor because of the loss of land, land that was stolen from them at the end after the mexican war that was supposed to be protected by the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo of 1848, but that is taken from them over a generation or two. if this land is restored, these people wouldn't be poor. he built a movement in mexico that gained more attention from chicano activists around the southwest and nationally. so here he is sitting right next to dr. king. we have a mexican-american leader from california who cut his teeth in labor organizing in the 1930's and 1940's in southern california and then founded a political organization called the mexican-american political association in california. jose gutierez who is one of the founders of the mexican-american youth organization in texas, then corkie gonzalez, a boxer turned political turned chicano movement leader, one of the more charismatic folks to come out of the chicano movement in denver. and so, he will be pretty prominent in the poor people's campaign. these two

active liability. it is interesting that in the 40 states that the joined the colorado brief that you are mentioning, they did not disclaim retroactive liability, but they said that each state would have to decide that issue themselves, themselves, and that is a threatening concept that direct marketers are seriously concerned about and some states are acting in that adverse direction and congress should act to say no retroactive ti, and congress should establish a six-month moratorium to get past the fourth quarter, and to give the companys a chance to collect, and then the adopting the reasonable simplification requirements of those that are part of the use tax agreements that jennifer has referred to and mike has referred to, the rate simplification should be part of this. one rate per state for all remote commerce simply makes sense. the companies should not be subject to not only 46 different states with the sales and the use taxes and be subject to audit, but the home rule jurisdiction asjurs dic dick -- jurisdictions, and there are over 500 home state audits that are participat

these as an attractive alternative to aca coverage. of course there are states like colorado as we mentioned, that pre-aca have limits on them as well but some states that since the president's announcement in october, have either in their legislatures or pushing for or have enacted limits include states like illinois, hawaii, maryland, vermont, and california's bill looks highly likely to pass. on a broader interest in appeal is action on reinsurance. we have seen a really interesting mix of very blue states as well as very red states pursue that option. oregon, alaska, and minnesota have implemented theirs. pending include maryland, new jersey wisconsin and maine. i think it is interesting in and i am many trend of states that currently are operate on a healthcare.gov or the federal marketplace platform, that are pursuing a shift to a state run platform. that would give them -- potentially a lot more flexibility over the operation of their marketplace and be able to do things like extend open enrollment, support outreach and navigator programs. more robustly. these include nevada

was one of the speakers at the annual western conservative summit hosted by colorado christian university's centennial institute. while in denver the attorney general discussed religious freedom, crack down on violent crime, illegal immigration and the opioid epidemic. his remarks followed by actor kirk cameron. >> please welcome 710 knus radio show host. [ applause ] >>> good afternoon. it's a great privilege to be able to introduce kirk cameron. i know that many of you are going to know him from a long time back. i suspect that if there was a single individual who embraces the theme of this conference it ul