country. throughout this debate, the public has rightly focused on obama care. for good reason. this law sura salvaging our economy, killing jobs, driving up premiums, and driving people off the health care plans they have and like in droves. its disastrous rollout is a sign of even worse things to come and the refusal to delay it reflects a kind of stubborn ideological obsession that will do untold damage to our country. republicans remain determined to repeal this terrible law. but for today, for today, the relief we hope for is to reopen the government, avoid default, and protect the historic cuts we achieved under the budget control act. this is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly. but it s far better than what
future of our country. throughout this debate, the public is rightly focused on obamacare. for good reason. this law is ravaging our econo economy, killing jobs, driving up premiums and driving people off the health care plans they have and like in droves. it is a disastrous rollout of a sign of even worse things to come. and the refusal to delay it reflects a kind of stubborn ideological exception it will do unknown damage our country. republicans remain determined to repeal the terrible law. but for today, for today, the relief we hope for is to reopen the government, avoid default, and protect the historic cuts we achieved under the budget control act. this is far less than many have hoped for, frankly. but far better than some have
future of our country. throughout this debate, the public has rightly focused on obama care for good reason. this law is ravaging our economy, killing jobs, driving up premiums, and driving people off the health care plans they have and like in droves. it s disastrous rollout is a sign of even worse things to come. and the refusal to delay it reflects a kind of stubborn ideological obsession that will do untold damage to our country. republicans remain determined to repeal this terrible law. but for today, for today, the relief we hope for is to reopen the government, avoid default, and protect the historic cuts we achieved under the budget control act. this is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly, but it s far better than what some had
woring, it s killing jobs, taking away people s health care, it is not working. and that s what we need to stay focused on. well, you were kind of a lone voice on that notice, almost delusional sounding, your entire party is now moving on. your entire party is saying the debt ceiling catastrophe that we are on the verge of doing needs to be resolved. you re on record saying you don t even want to deal with the debt ceiling collapse without making obama care a part of that. paul ryan said, let s deal with the debt ceiling. are you saying we could deal with that until we deal with the obama care obsession? the whole country understands we have way too much dead. it s got from roughly 10 trillion to nearly 17 trillion. larger than our whole economy. i think we need to do structural reforms to get our spending under control. at the same time you have to fight one thing at a time. we re in the middle of an epic
that s exactly right. there are republicans trying to tell constituents that votingmr yes on cloture means you support defunding obamacare. i will just point out one thing, sean. harry reid will vote yes on cloture. every single democrat will vote yes on cloture. the reason is simple. they know if you get 60 senators to vote yes that harry reid can fund obamacare in its entire uh ti. i think we ought to have all 46 republicans unite. we should stand together with the house republicans as one and say, we don t support obamacare because it is hurting the american people. it s killing jobs, threatening the health care of millions of americans. we are going to stand up and fight. i uh i want to ask you about it. first to the exchange with corker of tennessee. i i will follow up then on what you said. let s play that. is it more important to the senator from texas and the senator from utah that the people around the country watch this vote or is it more