The people in and around houston who again find themselves dealing with serious damages due to flooding. May they and those many First Responders be safe as they begin the recovery of their community. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. Madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on the approval of the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor please say aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Mr. Blumenauer madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon further seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer i object to the vote on the grounds that a q
Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , earlier this morning it was suggested that republicans are creating a problem on the portmanshaheen bill because were insisting on amendments. Im stunned that anybody would think insisting on amendments would be unusual or out of order. Thats what we used to do in the senate. We had amendments offered and we had votes on them by both sides. One senator, it was suggested, insisted on an obamacare amendment. That was dropped five days ago. Nobodys insisting on an obamacare amendment on the portmanshaheen bill. Senator vitter suggested that earlier but decided that was not a good idea on this particular bill because it was the opportunity we hoped to get four or five votes on important energyrelated amendments. And senator durbin actually objected. So i think i
Meaningful way. Yet now obamacare is becoming politically difficult for them. They are deflecting blame. Just this morning, we saw several imperiled obama democrats spin an oped that underscores the point. But americans are not going to be fooled by any of this. Americans agree that its time for washington democrats to work with us to remedy the mess they created, and that means repealing this law and replacing it with real reforms. Its time for them to work with us on a real jobs agenda, too, to take up the numerous bills the house has already sent over and get them onto the president s desk. Americans are fed up with the games and the tricks. They want serious solutions. You dont need a Campaign Pollster to figure that out, and republicans believe its about time the American People got those solutions. The presiding officer the leadership time is reserved. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i havent yielded the floor yet. Mr. President , i want to pay tribute to a kentucky soldier who tra
Legislation. He said on november 19 of last year, im happy to tell you that i think that was a concern of his talking about another of our colleagues. We got that u. C. s last night unanimous consent. So we moved that pretty quickly, and i want to try to do those things. Where we have agreement, lets move it. Quote i want to try to do those things where we have agreement, lets move it. We have agreement, lets move i, closed quote. Thats all im asking for. Were not going to agree on everything immediately. But we can agree on important things right today, right this hour, right this minute. We do agree on 27 important communitybased clinics in 18 states around the country including two in louisiana, lafayette and lake charles, louisiana, that senator landrieu and i represent. So i want to try i to do those things where we have agreement, lets move it. And that can start right this minute in a productive, positive way with these 27 communitybased clinics around the country. So lets agree
It a boom coalition. I want them all out. If you had that i think people would punch it to a large extent. From my point of view the potentiality is there. I dont have the name, i dont have the way in which it comes together but there is a lot more togetherness with the right and left in certain areas and we think as we look at individual issues. We have one more question, grab your ipads that come up if they have read that may be are we publishing this . Publishing the responses . When it comes to the recession recovery and the federal government made matters worse, made matters better, didnt matter much either way. Bill, third party. I would like peters ideal candidate. I saw your cfo there are enough ideal ceos, real people, all of them, and we pick that person and an independent party needs a democrat to nominate someone to the left of Hillary Clinton, they need someone to nominate someone well to the right of our last two nominees and the leaders in the middle, and the thing that