care, protecting people with pre-existing conditions and ot trying to protect people from being sold junk plans. two weeks ago it was pensions. we are every week focused on something that the american people that they want us to be focused onto make their lives better. thank you very much. joining me now two reporters who have been covering today s historic vote. sheryl, this was not always a fait accompli and by the time the vote was taken it felt like that, but what was the mood on the hill today? i think the mood was very somber, i think it was freighted, you know, with the weight of history. we saw in the debate a very impassioned debate. speaker nancy pelosi quoted from the constitution, kevin mccarthy the republican leader quoted
have private insurance go away. there are differences. i m happy to debate that. donald trump wants to take everybody s health care period. he wants to take away health care by taking away the ability to get coverage for pre-existing conditions. he s already taken away prescription drug coverage as an essential service by putting junk plans onto the marketplace, so i m happy to have that debate. just to be clear, let s say bernie sanders becomes nominee, you think medicare for all, free tuition, those types of progressive plans will sit well with the majority of michigan workers. i think all of that will work its way out. bernie was at the ambassador bridge taking a group of folks over to demonstrate differences in prices between the u.s. and canada. i ve taken that trip with seniors many times. i can tell you all of our candidates focusing on those issues for people, bringing down costs, everybody on the democratic side understands how care is personal, not political.
which the federal government is enjoying a suit against the federal government policies. that s in its own category of weird. you brought up women which should not be a partisan issue. that s not a controversial act. it s the reauthorization like the victim s compensation fund of something we have already on a bipartisan basis accepted as important. you are absolutely right. when we talk about saving lives, this is about funding shelters, primarily for women and children. escaping violence in their homes. it s about other support for law enforcement. they are going into dangerous situations as it relates to domestic violence. for the life of me, i do not understand why mitch mcconnell and the republicans think that s a partisan issue. there are a bunch of bills like net neutrality and no junk plans and those weren t going to even if they come up for votes,
that s a weird situation in which the federal government is enjoying a suit against the federal government policies. that s in its own category of weird. you brought up women which should not be a partisan issue. that s not a controversial act. it s the reauthorization like the victim s compensation fund of something we have already on a bipartisan basis accepted as important. you are absolutely right. when we talk about saving lives, this is about funding shelters, primarily for women and children. escaping violence in their homes. it s about other support for law enforcement. they are going into dangerous situations as it relates to domestic violence. for the life of me, i do not understand why mitch mcconnell and the republicans think that s a partisan issue. there are a bunch of bills like net neutrality and no junk
report, he is obstructing our quest to get information on why this administration reversed course, joined a lawsuit that would completely undo the aca. going back to their previous stance of tripping away health care that is affordable and accessible for millions of americans. this week we re going to be passing legislation that will help curb these junk plans, which not a single one of them offers maternity benefits to women in this country. we re taking actions to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. these are the issues that donald trump and this administration and his enablers in the senate don t want to talk about, because they re the issues that are important to the american people, that are important to their economic, you know, realities that they face around their dinner tables. these are the issues that we are going to pursue and we have been working on every single day since we took the majority. these are the reasons that we