Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Rm good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Matt and natalie have the morning off. Miss p does not. We have royalty this morning. Best in show at the Westminster Dog Show. Maybe a little Love Connection with wrangler. Look at the wrangler. Look at that. He said i wish i fixed my hair this morning if i had known. I can hear strings of mrs. Robinson playing. We will check in with miss p in a moment. The bitter cold is the top story. Temperatures plunging across the eastern half of the country. Al, this is just more and more. People have power lost in that area. We are not seeing an end in sight. This is just the beginning of it. The bad stuff gets in even sooner. In fact we take a look and before we get to the siberian express, let me show you what we have been dealing with in the south. Frozen trees and power lines and were talking about a real mes
Show and she sacheted into our studio this wednesday, february 18th 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday. Matt and natalie have the morning off. We do not. The Westminster Dog Show maybe a little Love Connection with wrangler. Look at the wrangler. Look at that. He said i wish i fixed my hair this morning if i had known. Mrs. Robinson is playing. We will check in with miss p in a moment. The bitter cold is the top story. Temperatures plunging across the country. They have power lost in the area. We are not seeing an end in sight. The bad stuff gets in even sooner. In fact we take a look and before we get to the siberian express, let me show you what we have been dealing with. Frozen trees and power lines and a real mess. Kids enjoy it but nobody else. Crops being damaged and folks trying to get through all of this in the south. Heres where our misery is going to start.
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or to change a vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 72, the nays 26. And the motion to concur in the house amendment to the Senate Amendment to h. R. 3547 is agreed to. Under the previous order, the clerk will report ms. Mikulski i move to reconsider. I move to lay on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, the clerk will report h. Con. Res. 74. Under the previous order, the concurrent the clerk h. Con. Res. 74, concurrent resolution providing for a correction in the enrollment of h. R. 3547. The presiding officer under the previous order, the concurrent resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider considered made and laid upon the table. Mr. Grassley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley if im not bothering anybody else, id like to start. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. All senators please
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
Leader simply is asking us to appropriate money and do nothing to fix the problem that weve attempted to address in the humane act with congressman cuellar that i mention add moment ago. That i mentioned a moment ago. So, in essence, the president has asked for a blank check, when he himself acknowledged this morning in my presence that he knows we need to address this problem and it will just get worse if we dont. So its quite remark to believe me that the president of the United States acknowledges we have a problem we need to address when the secretary of Homeland Security, who is trying to use the tools available to him to solv solve this crisis bt knows he needs more tools and more authority. At the same time the president makes that acknowledgment, at the same time his own secretary of Homeland Security identifies more authority, the president , its reported, that he actually wanted to expand this deferred action executive order that he issued in 2012 and say to more people who h