Obamacare force healthy buyers to split the entire bill to foot the entire bill. The new health bill sets up a fairer way. The 30 billion pot of money federally funded to pay for people with preexisting conditions. Not just people stuck in the individual market. Under obamacare the healthy and chronically ill paid the same premiums. It is called community pricing. Healthy people could never meet their skyhigh deductibles and instead the premiums would be used to cover huge medical bills for the chronically ill to consume 10 times as much for medical care. You can read that on the website. Your thoughts on todays vote, stay close to cspan for all of the action taking place on it. From north carolina, she is not sure of the republican efforts. Tell us why. Caller i dont know why because i really have not read the bill. I know what i have heard other people say but as far as actually reading it i have not. I tried to get in when the congressman was there because i really think they need to consider the problem is nothing but greed. Greed from the doctors and the hospitals and from the pharmaceutical companies. I had my first child in 1971. We didnt have insurance. Thenurse, our salary back was hardly nothing but we were able to save the money to pay for that. I saved the bill from that for years. It was somewhere around 800 and we were also able to pay for the doctor. Federal government gets involved in anything it eventually becomes corrupt. Medicaid came in, medicare, people found out they wanted a piece of the rock. Doctors used to live in the normal neighborhoods but you dont see that anymore. They live in homes that are milliondollar homes. They are millionaires. Is in every how it buddy elses state but here, your doctor doesnt even come to see you. You are turned over to whoever the physician is at the hospital. So i think greed is a big problem and how we fixed that i dont know. That is a problem people have fix within themselves. I dont know how you fix the problem of greed. But we have some big problems with our health care and it is sad. Pedro if you go to the website for the hill they keep a running count of, when it comes to republican votes on this bill, andis a no vote, a yes vote a not sure yet. About 50 are on the not sure list. 18 on the no list. I want to point you to that so you can keep track of your legislator and where their thinking is. Some reaction from legislators on twitter this morning. Votemorning the morning this afternoon, im concerned about medicaid and preexisting conditions not being resolved. I will vote no. Other legislators are tweeting as well. Lets hear from erika and springfield, virginia. Caller good morning. About the whole insurance extent, the woman before is correct. Says when they privatize Health Insurance i dont know why. Would love if you can bring in senator Elizabeth Warren to explain. What would be a better option on universal health care . But you are talking about pulling out of the market. Lets go out of the market and get medicare for all. So much fors been the republicans because they are focused about the cause and not how many lives of people with preexisting conditions have been saved because of the formal care act. Pedro if medicare for all is something you would like to see, how do you resolve the cost of that and what it would cost to put all those people in . Caller dont give a tax break to the wealthy. They have to pay their fair share of taxes. Weve been paying taxes to them for 30 years with the promise that they are going to create jobs. Work for an Insurance Company and every time i call it an Insurance Company, they are hiring people here in the United States. They are getting all the brakes. They are getting all the tax cuts and they are not compromising with American People. The American People pedro we will leave it there. In arlington, texas, opposing the effort. Hello. Caller hello. This is linda from texas. For trump. Solution why doesnt he pull out a lot of money and put a limit on the texas lottery . Then he can spend his money that way to fixing the wall or whatever. Pedro we are talking about health care. What do you think about what is going to happen today as far as this vote is concerned . Caller im opposing it because i live on medicaid. I like 30 credits getting my full retirement pay and i am disabled. I get medicare and i am 67 years old. If he pulls medicaid funding he is killing me. For the rest shots of my life is what my doctors told me. Box take awebsite look at elements of the plan when it comes to medicaid, saying the expansion will be phased out before the a formal care act and it was difficult for many low income adults without children to get coverage for medicaid. The Affordable Care act expand the program, to cover adults making up to 133 of the federal poverty line. Under the a hca the coverage expansion would stay in place until the end of 2019 but no newly eligible people would be added to medicaid rolls after that. The piece is also adding that it would cut medicaid in other ways and change how the federal government would reimburse andes for medicaid expenses introduces the options of the state turning the money into a block grant, a lump sum rather than a per person payment, which would cut the Program Still further. This is jackie in philadelphia, pennsylvania. She opposes the effort. Good morning. Caller im very concerned because i have Mental Health needs and i am confident that my state will cut that as an essential and i will need to go into the high risk pools. My medication is very expensive and i really dont know how i will manage. That is my comment. Pedro john from baltimore, maryland. Go ahead. Caller thank you for having me. I work in health care and this has changed my opinion about the gop in total which i was supportive of for years. In this case i dont think the public knows that a private color talked about greed. Just a couple of quick facts as i have learned and worked in this area. Hospitals in general only make on average around the u. S. , 4. 2 profit margin. That means four cents on every dollar. If you count the physicians hours to the dollars they make per hour, they are not living in a lifestyle the on what they are. It is insurance carriers that are making anywhere from 15 to 35 . I would challenge my fellow republicans to finally stop being partisan and look around. The moment you realize there are no death panels, we pay when someone goes a matter what. Here anda lot of hype a lot of hyperbole. To look at people this. This is sad what is about to happen. Pedro the editors of the wall street journal talk about it, talking about the upton amendment that was originally added, adding a billion to a 130 billion fund to create risk pools for those who need highcost treatment. Preexisting conditions are an understandable concern but the opposition is less to do with vulnerable patients than preserving obamacare. Chuck schumer claimed that risk pools are like in ministering cough medicine to someone with stage four cancer which exploits cancer victims and shows he knows nothing about risk pools. By targeting funds at the sickest patients, states can make Insurance Market affordable and stable. These subsidies siphon off some of the costs that contribute to the rising premiums of the overall market. It will encourage more people to enroll. Dan, good morning in alexandria, virginia. Go ahead. Caller i oppose this bill. We dont know how Many Americans are going to lose their health coverage. Republicans blasted the democrats back in 2010 when obamacare was passed, but we have no insight into the language of the final bill. It still hasnt been scored. And it has been pushed through. It is pathetic that a party that claims to be the party of life would rob some of the americans of decent preventative care. Pedro lucky is next, in maryland. Go ahead. Caller i am not in support of the bill. I just did a quick calculation this morning when i heard that they were holding 130 billion in reserve to add to the 8 billion to help people with preexisting conditions, and i did a basic calculation of according to how many people would be in the population of about 340. A quarter have preexisting conditions. I myself am diabetic. If you divide the 138 billion 1700 number, it leaves per person for a preexisting condition over five years. It is nothing. It isne per month 1700 per month. I mean, over five years. I dont know how that makes sense. Pedro so you are saying that Insurance Companies should be able to accept a person regardless of preexisting condition or not . Caller obviously. People shouldnt have to pay for someone elses health care . I mean, what are we doing when we are paying for schools, police, fire . You want police and fire to save you if something happens. If you have some kind of fire and you are injured, and you have to go to the hospital and you are left with exorbitant bills, it doesnt even make sense. We are already paying for things for the common good communities. Pedro this is crazy from baltimore, maryland. Opposed line. Baltimore, maryland. Good morning. But i this is christine was not opposed. Pedro apologies for that. Caller i have a question for the senator and that is, that one of the things that would let people know the congress was truly serious about fixing this they removed be if themselves from the Current Health plan that they have and say we will sign on to the health plan that we are suggesting the rest of the country go with and they dont. Instead, they keep themselves safe and protected with the health plan that they have for the remainder of their lives. Pedro the legislator just said that they were required to enroll under the obamacare exchanges. If yout they get look at the Health Benefits that members of congress yet by being congress get by being elected and what that plan does for them compared to what they are saying with this bill we need to do, it is a very different package. It is not fair. And the taxpayers are paying for their Health Benefits and yet they are trying to look at creating a plan for the rest of the country for people who are not in congress that does not apply to them. Pedro 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 four republicans, and 202 7488002 four independents. Lets go to glenn from salem, ohio in support of the effort. Caller good morning. Bill of the gop because my wife now has stage four lung cancer. Walmart which is invested into the obamacare system but it has totally broke us for what they dont pay in everything. Pedro give an example. The insurance pays so much money to the hospitals and then the hospital turns around and says that is not enough. We get billed the excess of it. I have to pay the excess of it and our money is gone. Pedro how much are we talking as far as when you pay excess . How many dollars . Caller every chemo treatment is 15,000 to 21,000. The Insurance Company says their fair share is 9,000 and we have been billed the excess. Pedro how do you think this thing might change for you . Caller hopefully, if it goes tax reform, more people will go to work and more people will have insurance and we wont be paying for so many people that dont have work. Because we are helping pay for the people who dont work there insurance through obamacare. And now, more people in the Insurance Companies will pay more. The hospitals will make their money more that way and they wont have to bill us. Pedro do you have a sense of how your legislator is going to vote on this package . Caller i dont. Pedro tyson is next, he also supports the effort. From california, good morning. Caller good morning, pedro. Thanks for cspan. Thanks for some of the common sense callers that are trying to drive common sense into those who dont want to hear it. Gas. Like getting it is supply and demand like the gentleman said. If you are unemployed you are not going to have Health Insurance or medicare. Premium. Ng 650 for my. Ero dollar deductible way to go if you can afford it. But now, doctors are only taking cash. They are not taking any credit in california. So the people that are paying for the people that need the medicine are getting hit by the providers because of their private margins or this or that. It is the prescription companies, it is the hospitals. If it is 3000 for an xray that is excessive. Well, a lot of people used to go to the er when they had a problem. Country ran fine. People had a job, they had Health Insurance. But as soon as obamacare came in it changed the game. Now, the republicans are quietly saying lets compromise and move forward. Pedro michael from honolulu, hawaii. Good morning to you on our support line. Caller thank you. I really support what the president is trying to pass and the reason is what we have now is collapsing. A lot of insurers are pulling out and one of the biggest problems ive found is the whole insurance and care for the needy or care for the people who are really sick is there is no emphasis put on preventative care, where people are punished for their lifestyle that caused a lot of their illness. For example, i have been in the hospital there and ive seen people 200 pounds overweight given wheelchairs because they cant walk around that easy and they are suffering from lung problems. But then they have to get wheeled out of the hospital, outside, where they can legally smoke. And they have their cigarettes. Out in that little group you see people with oxygen tanks and Little Things that they carried for support because a are suffering from lung problems, and they are all smoking. It is a waste of money if these people have to realize, when they have a bad lifestyle it is going to affect their health as they get older. And who ends up paying for it . You and i. The costs go way up because a lot of these medicines dont cure the illness. They just keep the patient alive. A lot of the medical practice, they put them in special treatment and special things that keep them alive. Pedro michael, do you have a sense of how hawaii treated the afford will care act . How many insurance providers are under that . Caller hawaii is a very Democratic State and it is very they really try to reach out and help everybody here and it does cost a lot of money. They do make a lot from the tax and the different taxes they have on tourists that come here for a short time. But it is very costly and a lot of people have grown used to it. What bothers me most is the people that end up sick because of their lifestyle. You see people like those folks outside the hospital smoking and they are suffering from lung disease and lung problems and breathing problems. Pedro we will move on to arnold in tennessee who opposes the effort. Go ahead. Caller good morning. How are you doing . I wouldanted to say like to address two callers that just called in. One guy said his wife had stage four lung cancer. I recently went to a meeting at the Friends Meeting house in national tennessee, that is quakers. And there was a group called pastors for peace. They have been going around the United States for 25 years and they collect money and goods and take it to cuba. One of the preachers told me something told us something that i had never heard and that is that cuba has a cure for lung cancer. I googled that and it is true. They have a cure for lung cancer in cuba. So far, it is not being allowed into this country. She also said they have a cure for diabetes. She talked about a man whose diabetes was so bad they were going to have to amputate his feet. Usually once you do that, they keep amputating up your legs until your legs are gone. Cuba has a cure for diabetes and it is not in this nation. The problem with our Health Care System is it is all about money. It is about making money. Our health care we dont really have a Health Care System anymore. It is a wealthcare system. Many doctors and professionals have traded in the hippocratic oath for the wall street journal. It is about making money. Pedro that is arnold in tennessee. Last call on this topic. We will talk about an event that took place on capitol hill with the fbi director appearing before the senate and talking about several issues including information he released close to election day about Hillary Clinton and other topics as well from the Washington Post this morning. E take a look at the hearing the headline says comey defends preelection act. Here is some of it saying that it was the director who gave his most exhaustive defense yesterday or wednesday of saying hevestigation had no regrets despite feeling hisdly nauseous that actions could have impacted the election. To win few new converts to his way of thinking with partisanship now swirling around the cloak the probe of clintons use of a frontal a private email server. Also you can see that on our website at cspan. Org. We are showing you a little bit of the exchange that took place yesterday. Comeysking about jim testimony yesterday, we are interested from hearing from you about your thoughts on jim comey. Do you trust him as the current fbi director . About some of the questions raised yesterday not only concerning the Russian Investigation but also information about Hillary Clinton . Democrats at 202 7488000, republicans at 202 7488001, and independence at 202 7488002. Your trust in jim comey. During the hearing it was senator Dianne Feinstein who asked him about why he announced the opening into the Hillary Clinton email investigation so close to election day. This is terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldnt change the decision. Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to october 28 and stare at this and tell me what you would do. Would you speak or would you conceal . I could be wrong but we honestly made a decision between those two choices that, even in hindsight this has been one of the worlds most painful if there insist, i would not conceal that on october 28 from the congress. I sent a letter to congress. I didnt make a public announcement. I sent a private letter to the chairs in the rankings of the oversight committees. That is not a distention in the world of leaks that it is important that i told them instead of concealing. That is the reason i made that choice and it was a hard choice. I still believe in retrospect, the right choice. Again, that hearing available at our website on cspan. Org. If you want to watch the whole thing. Your thoughts until 9 00 before the house of representatives cspan, 202 ur 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans, and for independents 202 7488002. Lin joined us from arizona on the democrats line. Go ahead. You, pedro. K i watched the hearings yesterday and i thought it was disingenuous and there was all that drama about he was mildly nauseous. He did not have to release that information. The investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, the prior secretary of state, did the same thing. You males have evolved, people didnt understand hacking, they didnt even use a private server. They were just sending it over regular emails. This is a red herring. They were trying to take her down. For him to say that he has to release this information for the integrity of the fbi like he is some type of moral compass is baloney. Especially since there was an investigation under the trumpet ministration of which he mentioned nothing. Im not saying it was all of why Hillary Clinton lost the election but the email scandal did cause people to have an issue of trust with her. It made them believe that she was using information unsafely. This is something that was a problem within the state department for many years and this didnt just happen to Hillary Clinton. Colin powell admitted he had used email. You dont hear anything from condoleezza rice. Everybody has crickets. It was because people didnt understand the ramifications. She at least tried to get a private server to help secure the information. They just wanted a way to communicate outside the state department when they are traveling and all of that and being able to have that unit and without all that oversight that open communication and without all that oversight. And the fact that he released that 11 days before certainly had an impact on the election. I dont like the way he still feels he is the moral compass for america. That investigation should have been remained private. If she had been elected, they could have easily impeached her then. Pedro that is lynn in arizona. Director comey saying he had no choice but to inform lawmakers about the investigation into late october. Thousands of emails had been removed from the last stop used by former new york representa tive anthony weiner. Continuing to speak about the rapidly unfolding developments, we had to walk in a world of really bad. Repeat too response to repeated questions about next up is maria, from Beverly Hills on our republican line. Go ahead. You are on. Say,r yes, i just want to with what the last caller also said, him being up there, he just looked like he was making everything up. He made up of the reasons why she was guilty and then he just exonerated her. Emails, the server pedro you are still on. Caller the server would have been enough evidence itself because what she did there was totally out of line. She really didnt act in the true sense of the american spirit when she did that and she is supposed to be representing the United States of america. , rightuld have been put away, on the server. That would have been enough. But for him to do what he did and totally exonerate her, that is totally out of line. He is probably may be working for her or for the system. A lot of people probably believe that he is not true to his word and they dont trust the fbi anymore. Pedro trust in director comey is what we are asking you for. From hawaii, independent line, jacob, you are next. Caller i watched an interview yesterday and there was a lot that director comey wasnt saying. The president of south korea is sitting in prison right now. Hillary clinton is being threatened to go to jail. Ted cruz is sitting there with , there is asonry global conspiracy of freemasons that have taken over our democracy. And now we are going to war with north korea. And iffreemasons you go to kim jonguns Facebook Page all he talks about is how much he hates the imperials and no one is listening and how much gang isse the cruz sitting in hawaii taking over in scaring the crop out of people. Tallahassee shelby in tallahassee, florida. Caller mr. Comey was appointed by president obama and director comey comes from new york as one of the attorneys is my understanding. So when he first came on he gave a speech referencing the police and Intersection Police have to have with the citizens. I thought that he came as an honest broker. He has been really just wonderful history, insights that we have been getting from to spend. , has,or comey is, in fact lost all credibility now as the director of the fbi. He set up this october 28 happening because he was the one that did not go and secure. It was my understanding and i think feinstein stated that he did not get the warrant. He did not get the warrant. He released that information. Teamaims that his crack was able to go through hundreds of thousands or whatever of the number of information. His actionsat, not here, but just because of the fromnual actions that came new york i wish they would play that speech that he gave when he was first appointed. President obama appointed him because he was, i thought, going to be the honest broker. He was the bridge. So after a series he made that speech concerning the intersection of race and on Law Enforcement and the value that we know we still have to make for the ideal that we have for the country to bridge. Pedro shelby in florida, calling on our democrat line. Costs speeches and testimonies, anything we have taken here available to you if you go to our website at cspan. Org and type his name into the video library. You can find everything from director james comey. Isughts off of twitter, this berkeley saying people had no trust issues at all with Hillary Clinton or the email issue. Also saying he needs to be fired. Brians next from florida. Republican line. Caller i was commenting on director comeys first comment whate leaking of the he was delivering to congress sayit is funny that you there is a telegraph, telephone, and tele congress and that is how you spread your message the best. Pedro couple of stories to share you outside of director comey although you are welcome to keep on calling. Talking about president obamas former National Security advisor susan wright who said requesty she declined a to testify before a Senate Subcommittee citing separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches and the fact that the invitation was not bipartisan, saying her decision to decline an invitation to testify on russias election meddling came from a lawyer. Senateders of the Judiciary Committee on crime and terrorism, Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse show that the invitation only became only came from Lindsey Graham. She did not agree to the request which the lawyer calls a significant departure from the bipartisan invitation. Susan rice, the former National Security adviser to president obama is refusing to testify before a Senate Subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking from transition officials. From state college, pennsylvania. Go ahead. Caller i believe that comey needs to be fired. Not only for his handling of the clintons but also trump. I do believe that Hillary Clinton and her associates should be prosecuted for mishandling and copying classified information. Susan rice has done nothing but lie. The Obama Administration has targeted christians, conservatives, and i think washington is a mess and im hoping that donald trump cleans it up. Pedro political activity by religious groups is a topic of an executive order that will be signed today by the president. The Washington Times reporting that the order is aiming on prohibitsovision that churches from directly opposing or endorsing political candidate. Trump has been promising to get rid of it. It will direct the irs to immediately exercise message exercise maximum Enforcement Discretion to alleviate the burden. The action will also let nonprofit organizations to cite religious reasons religious ties to russia and his financial ties around the world. What comey did was so unprecedented. Person evenat comments after the case is closed. They say it is closed. He came out and said that Hillary Clinton was reckless. When he came out with those computer,m my husband turned around said my computers could fasttrack that and find out if there is information. The court said there wasnt any. Goes, whenusan rice they subpoenaed from taxes than they have a right to subpoena her to come in and testified. Pedro one of the other exchanges that took place was an exchange between him and the senator Patrick Leahy talking about events during comey tenure. Here is part of that exchange. Was it appropriate for you to comment on one investigation repeatedly, and not say anything about the others . I think so. Can i explain . I only have so much time. Ill be quick. The department treated both consistently under the same principles. People forget we would not confirm the existence of the Hillary Clinton female investigation until three months after it began even though it began with a public referral and the candidate herself talked about it in october of 2015. We confirmed it existed and said not another word deliver finished. Until we were finished. I commented, as i explained earlier, on october 28 in a letter i sent to the chair in rankings of the oversight entities that we were taking additional steps in the investigation because i had testified under oath repeatedly that we were done. We were finished. With respect to the russia investigation we treated it like the clinton investigation. We didnt say a word until months into it and the only thing we confirmed about this is that we are investigating. I expect we are not going to say another peep until were done. Pedro dallas from silver spring, maryland. Independent line. 4 i think the thing that what caller this is a representative in our judicial system. He doesnt care about political agenda or anything else like that. He was doing his job. He was put in a tough spot. You could come out and be transparent about it with what this is supposed to be about. He wouldnt have had to have made any comments about it. He was just following the proper state Department Protocol and using their lines of communications which he chose not to. Lastly, he didnt come out and make a statement until after the letter that he had written to the congressional leaders. He didnt say anything. He didnt leak at. He didnt comment on it after it was leaked. Would he have concealed it or not commented on it . That would have been detrimental. I respect the man for the position he was in. He had to make a hard choice and he made it. Hadnt used the wrong you mail servers we wouldnt even be talking about this. Pedro lets go to lindsay in maryland, republican line. Caller thanks for taking my call. They is nonresponsive to judiciary request for e whomation regarding steel started as a russian dossier. He was supervised by fusion, the opposition company for planned parenthood, and now fusion is under a complaint for violating the foreign the registration of foreign agents act because they, of all people, have been apparently trying to reduce u. S. Sanctions against russia. You cant make this stuff up. Here, sloween walking information to the committee, asking pointblank questions about all this stuff. He is being nonresponsive to the u. S. Senate. I mean, where does this stuff stop . It is amazing to me. Pedro we will continue with calls about director comey. A 1. 1 trillion spending bill to be considered by the senate and to be signed by the white house. In the Washington Post today, we take a look at the amendment of the bill that targets the district of columbia, saying it would give the federal government more control over the districts marijuana laws. To thedment taxed federal spending bill in 2014 has prohibited the district from using funds to enact promarijuana laws. Representative andy harris of maryland first introduced it after voters approved a ballot measure to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Prohibit the city from passing additional laws that regulate the sale of it. Through the government september, the latest amendment takes it a step further and says the district cannot spend any of its funds, including reserve funds on marijuana law. Marijuana activists have been to workhe d. C. Mayor around a current federal restriction that bans the laws. The change suggests that some have been paying attention to the political debate playing out in local government. Carmine, you are next from new york. Republican line. Caller i feel he should resign. I was going to hold my breath and vote for Hillary Clinton because for me, trump was highly creep. Fied and a but when comey, a trusted and respected official came into the picture, my feelings changed. Timehe was saying at the was maybe only the tip of the laterg, only to find out that the real investigation being conducted concerned trump and some of his cohorts concerning russia. North ginger from carolina, republican line. Caller no, i am an independent. Pedro sorry about that. Go ahead. Liker to me, it looks comey was going for the best actor award. I didnt believe anything he said. He should put on a brave hat. To no person does it make any sense at all that you would keep your mouth shut and not say anything about this huge investigation into the trunk side with russia. The trump side with russia in the bill is a nonissue in that they had already called a nonissue. It makes no sense at all. Pedro former president obama unveiled plans for the obama president ial center that will be located in chicago. The Chicago Tribune has an artists rendition of what the center would look like, that it would be composed of three buildings highlighted by an eyecatching museum. The president is calling it a transformational project for the community. He envisioned a vibrant setting that would be akin to millennium park. The museum housing exhibition space will include education and meeting rooms with the tallest of the structures reaching as high as 180 feet. It will serve as a lantern for the complex and it will also be a fourth building housing a auditorium and restaurant and library. The building could contain a branch of the Chicago Public library. More about that in the Chicago Tribune this morning. Bridging a beach, democrats line. Judy, hello. Virginia,a beach, democrats line. Judy, hello. Caller with comey i think he valued himself too highly. He was appointed by obama. Everyone knew he was a republican but he was known for being an honest person. I think he took that too far. That he notested release this information, follow protocol. The protocol was, you dont release information like this that may be damaging during a president ial election. So close to an election. Bestcided he knew what was. He only knew. He is the one who knows what is the right thing to do. Not what the rules are. Was. Ith the procedure all of the years that the fbi for the new rules. My opinion is he behaved like hoover. Pedro that is judy in virginia beach. The wall street journal highlights the speech by Rex Tillerson at the state department in which some of the philosophy of the administration and the secretary of state was put forth, saying that his the clearestted to expression that president Donald TrumpsAmerica First foreignpolicy doctrine in which the u. S. Wont condition its approach to other countries based on how they treat people. He said we have to understand in each country that we are natural h what our National Security interests and our Economic Prosperity interests, and advocating our values. Separating policy from the treatment of minorities, tillerson appeared to have outlined that a partner of priorities pursued during the bush and Obama Administrations. We hear next from richard in rockport, texas. Republican line. No matter what comey does he is going to be criticized by one party or the other. When hillary starts criticizing him because she lost the election, or he was a major factor, reminded about the cartoons about the statue of liberty putting her hands over her ears because she is tired of hearing Hillary Clinton complain about her election losses. Thank you. Pedro jeff in california, democrats line. You will have to make your comment quick, the house is just about to come in. Caller thank you. s true colorsomey came out in a partisan way when he had to choose between Hillary Clinton and being a republican and tilted the scale of justice in the favor of a democrat over a republican. Pedro with that in mind, the house is now in and we will take a vote on health care, expected to go to the house of representatives. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on a day of great political moment. The attention of millions of americans is focused as the house considers legislation impacting the health care and coverage of so many citizens. On this national day of prayer, please attend to the supplications of your people. May the deliberations of these days issue forth in legislation that, indeed, promotes the general welfare, one of the purposes of government articulated in the preamble to our constitution