Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats before president obama, president ghani , and the delegations have departed. Wednesday, the afghan president will address a joint meeting of congress. You can see his speech live at 1045 a. M. Eastern. Coming up next on cspan, Governor John Kasich of ohio speaks. Then the u. S. Has debates on the gop budget. Ohio Governor John Kasich was in New Hampshire to speak at the politics and exit breakfast on tuesday. He ran for president in 2000 and was a congressman from ohio between 1983 and 2001. This is 45 minutes. [applause] gov. Kasich it is great to be here. Some of my former colleagues, this is back when Congress Actually worked. He is a terrific guy and worked closely with one of my great friends, chris shays. I love him. He was on the Budget Committee with me. You know chris. I always said john sununu was the smartest guy i have ever worked with in the house and senate. What can you say about him. About judd gregg. He has not been to
A partyline basis. And now, my friends, they sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. So we need to repeal the Affordable Care act and we need to replace it. Because health care in america is still not satisfactory, nor have we fulfilled the needs and our obligations that we have to all of our citizens. The problems with the Affordable Care act are well known. A failed web site rollout that has hindered enrollment and the purchase of mandated coverage. As of december 17 only an estimated 440,000 835 people have ben enrolled for a health plan. Thats 6. 2 of the enrollment goal of seven million by march 31, 2014. Theres a destruct jiff tax on medical devices that encourages these businesses to move offshore. We have already seen medical Device Manufacturers leaving the United States of america, as they said they would if they were taxed to the point where they could not be competitive with medical devices that were manufactured in foreign countries. The disappointment for americ
Borders and desperately want the United States to lead an International Consensus to make it clear to the russians theres a price to be paid. The russians marched into crimea because they didnt believe the United States and europe would enact the kind of crippling sanctions that would have otherwise caused them to make a different decision. And what this moment could be about right now on the floor of the senate as we head back over to the ukraine to express our support that there is bipartisan consensus in the senate and the house that were not only going to stand with them on the question of economic support but we are going to enact a set of sanctions that will make russia consider a different decision. And my question to senator mccain, as important as the economic support is, thats not what theyre asking for here. Theyre not asking for the passage of the house bill. Theyre asking for the United States as we have time and time again to lead an International Consensus to send a stro
We will put both our economy and our National Security at risk. That is why we wrote this budget because we owe to the country to lay out an alternative. We believe every person deserves a fair shot at a Brighter Future everyone deserves an america that works. We owed the American People a responsible balanced budget is a balanced budget will expand opportunity by creating jobs and by supporting our military it will help keep our country safe. The president s budget, it never balances, ever. Our budget on the other hand balances in 10 years and it puts us on the path to paying off our debts so that our children and grandchildren inherit a debtfree future. How do we do it . Verse 1 we stopped spending money we dont have. We cut waste and make muchneeded reforms to save 5. 1 trillion over the next 10 years. Our critics may call this deep but look at it this way. On the current path the federal government will spend roughly 48 trillion over the next 10 years. By contrast this budget will
Island and for the last 20 years have kept you working, but this downturn closed your company or pushed you out, those skills are out of date. Good workers, long work history, they need not only the help to retrain but they certainly need the help to get from day to day to day until they get back into the work force. With that, madam president , let me again commend and thank the sponsors and the authors of this legislation and yield the floor. Mr. Isakson i note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Harkin i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. The senator from iowa. Mr. Harkin mr. President , i ask consent that if the final vote on passage is successful the statement of the managers for the Work Force Innovation and opportunity act be printed in the record immediately following the text of the senatepassed bill. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Harki