nancy pelosi is getting a speaker s gavel again. because of perfectiveness in the last time she was speaker. in the first meeting she had, she had a punch of opinion writers airplane the table. i was there. we were talking about the budget fights. the new speaker bainer with his own caucus, trying to get a budget bill passed. i would focus on the debt ceiling crisis. if they couldn t get a budget passed, how on earth was he going to get the votes to raise the debt ceiling. she said, jonathan, you have to ask him. you just spent ten minutes telling us how you were a vote counter and you knew where the votes were. she said, well, yes, that s true. i ll remind you, i passed the affordable care act without a single republican vote. that s something people need to understand and to remember that very controversial piece of
re-election anyway. why do they trash her? because she s effective, because she s the leader. if it weren t nancy pelosi, if it was congressmen molten, they would be attacking him. i know what you guys and the republican party do. go ahead. but the number one issue is she s effective. one of the things she proudly told me as minority leader, does speaker boehner have the votes, she said you have to ask him. she said, yes, but i ll say this, i passed the affordable care act without a single republican vote. that s effectiveness. right. round table is sticking with us. up next, these three will tell me something i don t know. you re watching hardball. that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and customer service are critical to business success. like the ones we teach here, every day.
hard for it. and with the delay there s no logical argument for not bringing the public into this discussion. i want to play what your colleague, susan collins, had to say about this over the weekend. and it really does go to your point. take a listen. president obama in my view made a serious mistake when he pushed through the affordable care act without a single republican vote. i don t want us to make the same mistake and reverse and push through this bill without a single democratic vote. was it a mistake not to include your republican colleagues more? and could that have contributed to the toxic atmosphere around health care now? i mean, you know a lot of republican pushback has been on this which is that democrats when they did it didn t give us anywhere near an opportunity to really look at this bill. that s just not right. for example, in the finance committee, i m the ranking member, we took eight republican amendments, we had scores of
it s all on the republicans. if they agree they can make big changes. if they can t get this past when they control the levers it s remarkable failure of the republican establishment. i don t just mean the people in power, i made the tea party establishment all republicans that they cannot get this through. this is something about what the republican party even stands for. and president trump was giving it to the senate yesterday. susan collins has said opening the door for potential compromise. john mccain said that to be for his surgery. let me play you sound bite of susan collins talking about her view. president obama and my view made a serious mistake when he pushed through the affordable care act without a single republican vote. i don t want us to make the same mistake in reverse and push through this bill without a single democratic vote.
infrastructure committees, you, i understand, are assessing the repeal and replacement of obamacare from the standpoint of spending. so with that in mind, congressman, where do you stand on the current gop senate health care bill? well, the thing that i want to emphasize as much as we can is that we ve got to recognize that the affordable care act continues the fail. right here in my home state of georgia we have 96 counties that only have one insurer, and we are looking at almost 40% increases in our rates for next year here in the state of georgia. so we have got to get some relief. every time that i come home, our small business owners and and our families are telling us that the affordable care act is hurting them, and they have got to have some relief. so what we re looking for, we are looking for bills to come from the senate that repeal the taxes in obamacare and do things to shore up the safety net system in medicaid. and i believe that the house bill did that, and that s wha