Provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are here, they are the cocreators, executive producers and cohosts of the show time documentary series the circus it ended its Second Season in may. Also coauthors of game change and double down which respectively cover the 2008 around 2012 u. S. President ial elections. They are currently at work on their third episode in the series, it will recount Donald Trumps surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Mark halperin is senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc. John heilemann is National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. Im pleased to have them back at this take. So what is going on . laughter what is happening in america . You first. Look, ive been traveling a little b
Provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are here, they are the cocreators, executive producers and cohosts of the show time documentary series the circus it ended its Second Season in may. Also coauthors of game change and double down which respectively cover the 2008 around 2012 u. S. President ial elections. They are currently at work on their third episode in the series, it will recount Donald Trumps surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Mark halperin is senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc. John heilemann is National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. Im pleased to have them back at this take. So what is going on . laughter what is happening in america . You first. Look, ive been traveling a little b
Provided by the following bank of america. Life better connected. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are here, they are the cocreators, executive producers and cohosts of the show time documentary series the circus it ended its Second Season in may. Also coauthors of game change and double down which respectively cover the 2008 around 2012 u. S. President ial elections. They are currently at work on their third episode in the series, it will recount Donald Trumps surprise victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Mark halperin is senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc. John heilemann is National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. Im pleased to have them back at this take. So what is going on . laughter what is happening in america . You first. Look, ive been traveling a little b
The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Reid mr. President , this morning i came to the senate floor and talked about its groundhog year. Not groundhog day. What is going on here today is an example of what has been going on with the republicandriven direction of this congress for several years. What are we doing here today . Nothing. Nothing. Under the rules of the senate, cloture was invoked 990. And the purpose of that is to get on a bill. Its a shame we had to even file cloture on that, but we did. That takes a couple of days. And then, mr. President , everyone should understand that when cloture is invoked, there is 30 hours. It is a waste of time, and why are they doing that . Why are they causing that . Because they dont want to legislate. They want to do anything they can to stop president obama from accomplishing anything. Bernie sand
Higher costs for Prescription Drugs, higher costs for preventative services, reduced benefits and a Medicare Program that would go bankrupt nearly ten years sooner. The Affordable Care act is working to help seniors with their expenses and keep the costs of health care down. We need to improve and build on the progress the law has made, not argue over tearing it down. Because this shouldnt be about politics. This should be about keeping the promise that we made to our seniors. Its about building on that promise, and i will continue to fight for them. Mr. President , i yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from connecticut. Mr. Murphy thank you very much, mr. President. I appreciate my colleagues, senator warren, senator schumer and senator murray for joining us on the floor today. I think we will be joined by senator stabenow in a few moments. I appreciate them also being at an event we did yesterday in which we were kicking off the Affordable Car