Here. And for your willi in ingness t serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Now, thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years working at the highest levels of hhs. During his time at hhs, mr. Azar play eed key roles in implementg new policies including Medicare Part d and the Medicare Advantage program. He was also a leader in hhs responses to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9 11, the sars and monkey pox crisis, and hurricane katrina, just to mention a few. If confirmed, mr. A
That has been around for about a month now. Rick santorum is going to tell you how history is on our side. Ron johnson will talk about numbers because that is what he does and dean heller will tell you about how this is a good deal for nevada and the country as a whole. I will start with this proposition. If you leave repealing and replacing obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only happen. O make it Everything Else has failed except this approach, which will work if we get behind it. If you want a singlepayer Health Care System, this is your worst nightmare. Ends yourders, this dream of a singlepayer Health Care System for america. We need people on board now to stop what i think is inevitable if we fail, which is singlepayer health care for all which is the end of quality and the end of a sustainable federal budget. There are four three choices. Care, or ourrnie bill. That is where we are our. Count me out for propping up obamacare. Hell no to bernie care. Count me in for
Vote the presiding officer is anyone in the chamber who wishes to vote or change his or her vote . Seeing none, on this vote the yeas are 84. The nays are 9. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from nebraska. Mrs. Fischer thank you. Rise to speak on the Defense Authorization bill. Congress has passed this Bipartisan Legislation every year for the past 55 years, and once again this year the United States senate is debating this critical legislation to provide our men and women in uniform with the resources they need to keep americans safe. This is a bipartisan bill. It represents the combined efforts of members from both sides of the aisle. It walls approved unanimously by the Senate Armed Services committee. All 27 of our members voted for it. Thats more than a quarter of this body. The distinguished chairman, the senior senator from arizona, spoke on the
Occasions when ive risen to speak about the need to repeal and replace obamacare. Mr. Cassidy although we did not begin in our last effort i personally allege with senators graham and heller making one more try and folks ask why. There is a fellow back home who is a conservative talk show host who speaks with passion about the Affordable Care act. And why does he speak with passion . Moon performs very open. Hes got a specialneeds child and he has to buy insurance. And his premium per year is over 40,000. 40,000, mr. President , with a 5,000 deductible and additional deductible for his pharmaceutical costs. He could. 50,000 a year could pay 50,000 a year in insurance deductibles. The mortgage payment for a 500,000 is what he puts up because he has to buy insurance. He has a child with special needs. Mr. President , there are many moon graffons across our nation. Someone said kind of as a wag, but i think theres a ring of truth to it that obamacare, the individual exchange only works if
Traveling to the benicia bridge a collision that was at one point blocking all lanes just stpa ahu out to the mid span. Now we have the slow lane open but still ack. Youre slow from about highway 4. So no new updates. Woingond coulear s the crash. I will keep an eye on that this morning. No metering lights. We have about 20 minutes to go. Well take a look at drive times up next. Are alexis, thank you. We are tracking that breaking news now as Hurricane Maria is wreaking havoc in puerto rico. It madean l90 minutes ago as a category 4. Many people have caught fght island. Maria will leave behind life threat ing flooding, mud slides and 6 to foot storm surge being blamed for at least two deaths. The u. S. Military officials have been ordered off the island. Okay. And here at the live desk, i brought mike in to give us an the pen to ia as we set this show folks how this thing is moving through the caribbean right now because, of course, thats the concern, what is going to hit as we see the