The clerk on this vote the yeas are 395 the nays are 23. The amendment is adopted. The chair on this vote, the yeas are 395rk the nays are 23. The amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 4 printed in house report 116247 by the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. Maloney, on which further proceedings were postponed, and on which the yeas prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 4 printed in part b of house report 116247, offered by ms. Carolyn b. Maloney of new york. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. A sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of th
Lower Health Care Costs on behalf of the American People. We promised in advance of november, 2018, that were we given the chance to serve in the majority, we would focus like a laser beam on driving down the high costs of lifesaving Prescription Drugs. The American People pay more for Prescription Medication than any other developed country in the world. We pay more than canada or australia or japan or Great Britain or france or germany. Oftentimes five or six times the amount for the same drug manufactured in the same location. Its unacceptable and theres an emerging bipartisan consensus that we need to do something about it. H. R. 3 is the vehicle to accomplish that objective. By finally giving medicare and the federal government the power to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of the American People , and well be moving forward expeditiously in advancing this legislation over the next few weeks. Let me now yield to my distinguished vice chair of the caucus, katherine clark. Ms. C
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Philadelphia enquirer and did a recent story looking at andy kim of new jersey and the topic of impeachment and joins us via skype. Good morning to you. Guest good morning. Host can you set up the context of the town hall and how impeachment played into the discussion . Guest andy kim beat a republican in the midterms. He flipped that seat, tom mcarthur, a trump alive republican in new jersey, tom mcarthur held one town hall where he had been criticized pretty harshly over health care and never held a town hall after that. And andy kim said im holing a lot of town halls and kept that promise. This was the 10th town hall. A firehouse in burlington township, new jersey, suburb of philadelphia. He held one before where he had a lot of questions about impeachment but the feeling he had going to this was that town all and after robert newlier testified and thought it would be of interest to the district. He started out talking about the economy and hes very concerned about the indicator as