Mr. Speaker, for the past 20 years, as a practicing lawyer and business owner, i have seen firsthand how companies have tried to grow and create more jobs, but they simply cant due to the strangling grip of obamacares employer mandate. Small businesses tell a story of how their current plan was canceled and how they were forced by obamacare into a health plan that covers less with higher copays and higher deductibles, along with unsustainable increases in premiums. Simply stated obamacare is crushing Small Business across this great country. And despite the urgency of the crisis, the president has decided to dig himself in and promised to veto any commonsense reforms such as removing this employer mandate. So if the white house has decided not to collaborate with congress to ease the burdens on families and businesses, then the only path we have is full repeal. Along with that mr. Speaker, we need to move forward and develop Commonsense Health care reform that not only respects familie
Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected and even read the charge that president reagan had made at one time in determining what a Defense Budget should be and the reason im saying this is i look and i agree with senator reid who talked about the inadequacy in meeting the threats. I agree that director clapper when he says looking back over my more than half century in intelligence, ive not experienced a time when we have been beset by more crises and threats around the globe than we are right now. That and in light of the fact that we a
Fixed concrete block perpendicular to the direction of travel, there really arent tradeoffs. Went for the safest system we could get. Reporter safer and more expensive on both sides of a collision. From the dpg bridge Wayne Freedman abc7 news. Pockets of rain hit throughout the bay area today. Check out this surprisingly heavy downpour outside san joses city hall. Very few people had umbrellas when the rain fell around lunch time. Abc7 News Reporter david louie was one of those stuck in the down pour. He tweeted this video. And check out the gray skies in hayward as rain started to fall late today. Sky 7 hd shows the wet roads around 3 30 this afternoon. Check out a wet commute on the san mateo bridge, the rain covering up the lens on our bridge camera. Abc7 news meteorologist is here now with live doppler 7 hd. Hi, drew. Hi, al match showers popped up across the region today came down in buckets, not everyone is seeing the rain at this hour. Live doppler 7 hd show you the activity is
The presiding officer are there any members wishing to vote or dhaing their vote . If not, on this can yeas are 99, the nays are zero. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having vote fed the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i wanted to spend a little bit of Time Offering a viewpoint different than the chairman of the committee on this bill. First of all, i want to say by context, my father and two brothers served in world war ii, my brothers during the vietnam era. There is no question we have an obligation to meet our commitments to those that have put their life and future on the line for this country. But it pains me that although weve increased spending 58 in the v. A. Program since 2009, which is fiscal 2010, what we have seen is a complete lack of oversight of whats happening. Let me give you an example. The v. A. Community in the Senate Committee in the Senate Last Year held
Going to rain or how long. Therefore we really dont know how bad the drought is going to be over the next year or two or three. Reporter the governor also acknowledged that he also has a political fight ahead over the issue of water and that he has to measure his steps, as well. We have to keep working together this year and in the years to come so efforts to strip away protection that are wanted and valued by significant sectors of california is not a way to build the unity. Reporter and even on this measure, i have to tell you, elizabeth, there was not unity. Republicans said nice try but what about the years leading up to today . Where was the planning then . Where is the policy thats going to get us out of the mess . The time frame. The governor called out you out for a question. Why dont we ask our waterman here. Matier always goes for the technical questions. Whats the obvious one . The water man . [ laughter ] oh, you and your technical questions, phil. Reporter the technical qu