The Affordable Care act, the posture over at the white house, and in congress. Senator murphy is the one who said the president is setting the Healthcare System on fire. Well hear from him. For your calls, republicans call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. We have set up a special fourth line this morning for folks who are enrolled in the affordable re act, your number is 2027488003. And if want by phone, weigh in on social media. Cspanwj is our twitter handle, and also on facebook. Here is one writeup on the healthcare story. Its in the Washington Post today. A. C. A. State tied to budget discussions. The democrats accuse President Trump of trying to sabotage the nations Healthcare System through his decision to halt payments to insurers meant to shore up the system, while republicans countered on sunday that trump is just pushing for a hard bargain. Trumps decision announced friday after months of criticizing the payments as an Insurance Industry bailout wi
Howling wind to raging water, parts of five states under siege from the elements. In texas theres a tornado crossing the road in front of us. Reporter this giant tornado rolling into canton. Tragedy was averted on prom night by this quick thinking dj. I said it is going to be a direct hit, reporter 20 people went into the bathrooms and storage closet and wrote out the storm without a scratch. Automobile dealership and its entire inventory of new cars is now a junkyard. This couple helpless as they record the tornado that destroyed their new home. Glad to be alive. Reporter residents banding together to help each other pull through. We are lucky. I dont know if we will ever get it cleaned up. Reporter in the desperate search for an 18monthold girl and fouryearold boy trapped inside of a truck swept away by floodwaters. Right now i think we are looking at a recovery. We are hoping for the best. Water wasfor some, the only escape route for the flooding. This pregnant woman and her husband
Quiet. And then for a couple of hours its going to get stormy. Temperature wise its having a very warm weekend. 91 was the record on saturday. Temperatures will start coming down, 81 as the high for today, dropping into the 60 pasta maybe 70 degrees at midweek. Most of this week will be rather cool. The front, as mentioned, slicing through areas of alabama come into georgia, a number of deep southor to the yesterday. For us, we could see an isolated tornado or two this evening. We will talk about that in a moment. Fog by 95, baltimore, a bit of patchy fog this morning currently, iolis, think it will burn off by late this morning. Temperatures from the upper 60 pasta the low 70s 81 is the high. We will talk about the big weather makers, coming up in about 10 minutes. Keeping track 7, the fog keeping things on the ground, but i dont think it will hinder your take off this. Orning it is definitely something to watch out for north of town. Outer loop of the beltway making your way past rou
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Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, after seven years we have heard the stories from our constituents, from our patients, from our friends, from our families who have suffered under the Affordable Care act. Today, well have a chance to vote on a plan that will rescue and revitalize the market and lower costs and increase flexibility for patients to choose and keep a Health Insurance plan that works for them and their families. However, before we can do that, we have to pass a bill that will insure that members of congress and their staffs are treated the same way as the rest of america. So lets be clear. We firmly believe that members of congress should live by the same rules as everyone else. Period. The bill were considering now will make a simple technical correction to insure that the American Health care act and its amendments apply equally to everyone when signed into law. Over the last several months we have worked thoughtfully and thoroughly with our colleagues in the senate to achieve ou