Healthcare. For years, madame speaker donald trump and republicans have been telling the American People they have a plan that is better than the Affordable Care act which will cover more americans, he said would cover everybody a lower cost and higher quality, not a Single Member of the house could rise and say i know what the president s bill is. With no plan being put forward, not clear what the plan really is. You laminate the Affordable Care act and offer nothing in return. They tell the American People you are on your own. They tried to repeal or undermine it more than 65 times in congress and failed. Now they are trying to overturn the law in court and attempting to ram a Supreme Court nominee through to do what they failed to do through the legislative process. After saying we ought not to consider a Supreme Court nominee in an Election Year because we will let the people speak. In fact the people spoke in 2016 and voted for Hillary Clinton by over 3 million disparity. Republicans didnt care, they wanted to know what the Electoral College said. Of course that is our constitution but it is not the people speaking. A fight over this nominee is about the ability of americans to access quality affordable healthcare. Democrats came into the majority we took immediate action to defend the Affordable Care act in court, stand up for protections for 130 million americans with preexisting conditions. What can we expect if republicans succeed in ending the Affordable Care act . Free preventive screenings and services gone, the guarantee of coverage for those with preexisting conditions will have higher premiums gone, the ability to get covered under your parents plans if you are younger than 26, gone. The ban on lifetime and annual limits of coverage, gone. That is what we are defending for the people and what we will continue to protect. Madame speaker, we also took action to lower Prescription Drug costs for the passage of hr 3, another legislation. Not a gimmick like Donald Trumps meaningless executive order on illegal coupon charges that endanger the future of medicare, but real action to benefit those who need more affordable Prescription Drugs. When an unprecedented deadly pandemic swept across the globe and on to our shores House Democrats led the way with swift action, and acting four bipartisan laws and passing a fifth bill, heroes act, 4 and a half months ago. No action in the United States senate for 3 and a half months and a lame effort which was not supported by republicans in the senate and certainly no democrats in the senate. Donald trump and the Republican Senate have brought the heroes act, so necessary for those on unemployment, those trying to feed their families, so necessary for family support, so necessary for hospital workers and those administering testing and so necessary for the states and localities for hiring police, firefighters, sanitation workers, critical personnel necessary to confront this virus. Democrats have said we are in this together. Donald trump has said it is what it is. Let me say to the American People, what it is does not have to be. House democrats have shown there is a better way to lead and a more responsible way to govern in this crisis. Democrats have also been fighting to make our economy work, madame speaker, for the people. While republicans fight to make our economy work for the wealthy. That is why they are fighting about the tax provision they put into the cares act, it is for the wealthy, not those who are struggling. In 2017 donald trump and republicans and acted an unpaid 1. 5 trillion tax cut worth 83 , more than 8 of 10 americans who got relief were the wealthiest people in america, the top one . That bill raised taxes, that bill also raised taxes, that bill also raised taxes on 86 million middleclass households, and they benefit working families and grow our economy. We voted to raise the minimum wage and ensure equal pay for equal work for women. And and with highpaying american jobs. House democrats work to make government more transparent and accountable, and majority moved swiftly to pass the strongest and most comprehensive reform legislation in decades, for the people act. The house is not in order. The house is not in order. The house will be in order. That bill will hold government officials more accountable, increase transparency and ethical standards, increase voter protections while instituting National Redistricting reforms. Where is it . In the senate, left unattended, unconsidered by the United States senate because it is on mcconnells desk and he will not move it. This president and republicans continue to make it harder for americans to vote and so confusion, unknown certainty about balloting, House Democrats passed hr 4 to restore the john the was act to restore the protection rights act, demonstrated 4 and died for. Unfortunately too many in this country are trying to make it more difficult, to cast the central facets of being a citizen of democracy, the right to vote. That is one of the 340, 340 bipartisan bills that are languishing on senator mcconnells desk. He will not call them up before the senate for a vote muzzling democracy, 340 important bipartisan bills blocked, stalled or ignored. Let us not forget we began our majority in the middle of a damaging government shutdown. The longest shutdown i have experienced in the 40 years i have been here. We moved swiftly to end that shutdown, and prioritize the passage of funding bills last year and this year before the end of july to prevent another shutdown of our government so last year we passed eight of the ten appropriation bills by june 20 sixth. This year we passed we ate of this ten notwithstanding covid19 by july 20 sixth. The senate is not passed out of committee a single appropriation bill, not one. What have they been doing . Judge after judge after judge after judge. That is what they are doing. To serve their ideological agenda, hoping they can control through the courts that which they cannot control in the democratic process. We have shown, madame speaker, what it means to govern for the people. Over the next few weeks americans will have a chance to choose the direction of our country, follows in the years ahead. They know that republicans have failed them. No health care bill, no infrastructure bill, the president talked about in the campaign, i will invest in infrastructure, no bill as represented by the president to do that, no health care bill. They know their republican colleagues failed them through their in action and your responsibility. They know the democrats have offered a serious agenda of leadership, demonstrated the capacity to govern responsibly and have shown ourselves always to be for the people. Today we will be considering a bill. We are in negotiations, i hope those negotiations work. Nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin reach four bipartisan deals. Mister meadows was not chief of staff at that time. Let us hope we can reach a bipartisan deal. We are supposed to consider our heroes 2 bill, our statement of what we think is necessary to uplift the American People, to let them know they are not on their own, we are with them, we are to gather. We will consider that bill today. If there is not an agreement. I hope there is an agreement. The American People need it and that is what we have done in the past, lets hope we can do it today and i yield back the balance of my time. Starting now with booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend, television for serious readers. We are live with arthur and Harvard University professor jill lepore who will be a guest on our monthly call in program in depth, she will discuss lesserknown stories from American History going back to the founding of the country. Also this weekend political satirist and journalist pj orourke talks about his most recent collection of essays on American History, economics and culture. On our offer Interview Program after words, foxbusiness news host lou dobbs offers thoughts on Donald Trumps agenda, find a full television schedule, booktv. Org. Now we kick off the weekend with James Copeland who argues america is over and by nonelected agency officials. We know we are preparing to vote in a huge election. We will be electing all sorts of congress, state legislators etc. A fascinating new book written by our guests today looks at the unelected, the title of jim copelands book is the unelected, how an unaccountable elite is governing america
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