California proposes to spend $168 billion, of which $47 billion is General Fund and the remainder are federal matching or special tax funds, on Health and Human Services.
What a pleasure to listen to seven well-informed and highly thoughtful individuals debate. I’d be very happy with anyone of them for President.
“I, --, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
The House Judiciary Committee is debating two articles of impeachment: abuse of presidential powers with a foreign government for his personal benefit and abuse of Congress by refusing to produce documents and directing all Executive Branch employees to withhold documents and refuse to testify in the matter of impeachment.
House Judiciary Committee staff compiled an excellent primer on impeachment; its only 55 pp. and imminently readable. It answers many of the questions we all may have about the standards for impeachment, the rules of procedure in impeachment cases, and the standards of evidence.
Presidents Zelensky and Putin of the Ukraine and Russia respectively are scheduled to meet this Monday in Paris. French President Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel are hosting the meeting and facilitating negotiations. The goal is to get the Russian troops out of Eastern Ukraine, the Donbass industrial region and to reintegrate the region back into the Ukraine, possibly with increased regional autonomy.
We are a group of American lawyers from all walks of life dedicated to the rule of law and the preservation of our democracy (please see our website www.lawyersdefendingdemocracy.org).
We urge the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to consider in the exercise of its current impeachment responsibilities the many ways President Donald Trump has abused his power and thereby threatens our constitutional framework and not confine itself to the Ukraine matter alone.
Health care reforms need to control costs, cover everyone and improve health outcomes; at least that’s my opinion. The single payer (supported by Senators Warren and Sanders) does the best job, but falls down on producing a well-organized system to improve health outcomes (essentially it’s fragmented and unaccountable care). Moreover, it is very expensive to finance and is quite disruptive of existing coverage that many may prefer to retain.