Development you cannot get beyond a certain point. Talk about entitlements you cannot have that discussion too long before you say what about health care . You cannot talk about the u. S. Budget and the trajectory of spending. You cannot recognize to have three or four diseases to drive spending with diabetes her cardiovascular on the health care side. So i get to hang out with some smart guys with Health Care Reform and whether the things that really need to get done to reform the system . Over the next year we will talk more specifically about the policies that we have but i have to say the number one issue, aside from coverage is you have to have more affordable, portable, access ible Health Care Insurance policies. That is a huge problem so few have pharmaceutical costs and insurance costs costs, you have some things that have to be addressed. The biggest challenge of all in health care is the escalating cost. It is unsustainable. What is the biggest expenditure with the department
Agriculture. Across this state, communities are coming together working on Kindergarten Readiness and thirdgrade reading. We had the first tuition raise in 14 years. Today 95 of all oregonians have Health Insurance coverage. Tens of thousands of them for the first time and they dont have to choose between the utility bill and taking their child to the doctor. They are healthier and happier and more productive on the job. Together we have delivered for oregon, but we have more to do. It requires leadership based on values and based on the belief that we are all in this together. Based on the belief that oregon will be a good place for any of us to live. It requires the ability to bring people together to tackle these problems as a community. We have brought our state together over the past four years. We have delivered for oregon. We cannot allow ourselves to return to the divisiveness of the past. This is about values, the ability to deliver. Im john kitzhaber, and im asking for your v
I believe washington is taking her country in the wrong direction. For the past eight years, congressman bruce braley has been their voting with nancy pelosi, higher taxes, bigger government, wall street bailout, obamacare. This is his record. He cant defend it so he is running a negative campaign. Washington has failed. I believe in the iowa way. I believe that iowans what is best for iowa, more than politicians and washington, d. C. Our workingclass families deserve better. I will fight hard. Our generation has worked hard for our american dream. As your you next United States senator, i will fight washington to make sure more americans can achieve that dream. Thank you for your opening remarks. We will move on to the questions. In this particular section, each candidate will have one minute 15 seconds to ask answer questions. There will be a chance for a rebuttal. Joni k. Ernst receives a first question. Lets talk about some of the negative things that have been raised in the that y
Tom harkin. They have woken up to a whole that shows joni k. Ernst leading with 44 . We will dig deeper into those poll numbers. A little bit of housekeeping. Our format will change. Toincludes a chance for you tweak us your questions to ask the candidates. Iadebate. Uld use each candidate will get 90 seconds. Our coin toss determined that bruce braley will go first. Thank you for moderating tonight. I want to thank the Des Moines Register and kccitv. I want to thank the viewing audience here. Thank you, senators. I am bruce braley. I grew up in a workingclass home in a small farm town. My mom is a schoolteacher. Elevatorn a grain before dying. For the Des Moines Register. I got my first job in the third grade grade i worked a lot of different jobs to pay my way through law school. Wife and we have been together for 30 years. Senatenning for the because i am going to stand up for eyewitness, which is what ive been doing 30 years. I will work with anyone who has a good idea that is good
Front of the senate, and he looks forward to doing that. Melissa the white house previously stated faucis testimony would be counterproductive with the coronavirus outbreak, not yet under control, earlier today tops and a Democrat Chuck schumer saying its imperative that fauci dominic dr. Fauci and others appear before congress. Facui has been muzzled at times and has times has spoken the truth. I would seem the i would say the same for dr. Birx pray the president has been wrong so often, has belittled this crisis so often, and has been incompetent so others dominic often, like in producing the testing. We need to hear from a multiple variety of sources to get the truth. Melissa this is outnumbered, and im from melissa francis. Here today, my partner, harris faulkner. Also joining us today, jessica tarlov, fox news contributor. I see dr. Nicole saphier there, as well. And we have Ari Fleischer, who is outnumbered. Ari, ill start with you. What do you think about the president s decisio