The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this body has attempted to repeal the Health Care Law 41 times. E this is this is being leveraged in the current budget fight. I want to take a few minutes to remind people why we passed the Health Reform law in the first place. Lets remember the situation before obamacare became law. Clearly, the status quo was not sustainable. The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States was medical costs and
Date today and day to day noise that seems to be treated more like a horse race of who is up and it was down instead of the future of our country. Host do you wish you could go to that meeting . Guest oh host the president made a point of trying to invite all the republicans and there is dispute over whether to invite just the committee chairman. So manyhen you bring voices, often you dont get a concentration on the issue. Theres is sort of a running joke here in washington that everything may have said but not said by everyone. Lets face it, we elect a lot of people who are really good communicators. My great hope is that we build the process to take those folks that own calculators and start focusing on the realities of what is going on to this country. Our mike in virginia on line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to just say first, i am proud of republicans for the standard they have taken on this issue. I had a question about the vote. N the house on the
At the end of the day this makes no sense. My husband was a veteran. Went for the vietnam war. When he was gone, it was the worst thing in the whole entire world. Especially when they are whening him especially they miss most of this and that. Especially at the end of the day you need help with veterans. Host what you think . Should the general have to go . Caller you cant just not know about a whole cover up. He has computers, he has this, he has that. Host thank you. A republican there. Cruiser has this. ForWashington Post intuition sekis testimony from last week, concluding that if obama wants to resolve this debacle, he will need a less passive secretary. Secretary who became in january 2009, is not up or go visitor to the obama white house. He visited the white house 33 times, according to the official visitor logs, roughly one visit for every two months of his time in that position. That is less than some cabinet officials with higher profile eric holder visited five times. The n
Day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Holding, for five minutes. Mr. Holding thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, suffice it to say there is no shortage of challenges across the globe. All of which cast our nations Foreign Policy and resolve and pose a threat to our National Security. Lately, the worlds attention has been focused on a myriad of issues that rightly deserve our attention russias blightant violation of ukraines sovereignty, their continued m
Ets that live 202 5853880 you can also email us. Veterans only this morning. Your experience with the ba system. The congressional reporter for the military times joined us on the phone now to talk ulk about the situation. Why are their calls for the secretary to step down . Caller there has been a lot of controversy lately stemming from the allegations against administrators at the phoenix veterans hospital. There are allegations and reports that they were keeping two lists. actualt had veterans waitt times actual times. Cnn did a larger board large report that 40 veterans died waiting for care. Bunch from the American Legion have called for his resignation. Host why is that . Caller the legion said it is not this situation. There is a list of things that they are frustrated with from how he has lived at the department. Information,lic and to punish folks who have made mistakes. We have heard a handful of scandals over the last 69 months. There were some deaths in pittsburgh and probl