Insurance is real important. And today it hangs in the balance of a website or a promise here and there. It doesnt mean any government takeover. What the president said and everybody said all along, there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care act. If the president knew that these letters were coming, that raises some serious questions about the sales job of obama care. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. Why are you cutting these people from their insurance . Well, dave, were not cutting people. Were actually transitioning people. Create minimum standards of coverage. Minimum services that every Insurance Plan has to provide. If he does not succeed with obama care, expansive liberalism, i think it will be set back a full generation. I refuse to see this country in all of us shrink from these struggles, which are our responsibility and our time. Because what we are now talking about in our childrens day will seem to be the ordinary business of government.
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37 billion and created helped Small Businesses and created jobs. It also helps us pay down the federal deficit. It has generated over 1. 057 billion returned to the u. S. Treasury, so it has actually helped us pay down the federal debt. So my colleagues all of a sudden are having amnesia why they supported the exim bank or not coming forward to support it now need to remember what a vital tool this is to the u. S. Economy. Madam president . The presiding officer time has expired. Ms. Cantwell madam president , i ask unanimous consent for another 30 seconds. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Cantwell thank you. I just want to close by by saying other countries use these same financial tools, and so a lot of my colleagues can see that other countries for the same reason, when the marketplace doesnt provide a privatesector financial tool to securitize these these products, its important that the United States stay competitive with everybody chasing Global Market opportunities.
Mr. Blumenthal madam president , i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, madam president. This month we celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in roe v. Wade, a ruling that assured every woman her constitutional right to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child, based on her fundamental right to have her privacy protected. I had the honor to clerk for the author of roe v. Wade, Justice Harry blackmun, in 1974, shortly after that decision. And i can say that in that year few of us expected that we would be here 41 years later facing the kind of attack, in fact, the onschatz on Womens Health care and that right to privacy that we see again and again and again on the part of states and even in this United States congress. Just today the house of representatives will debate and probably vote on a bill that would severely restrict very practically constrict a womans right to choose, h.
N theus a tweet or joi conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Mail journal cspan. Org we will get your thoughts in a minute but joining us on the phone is richard wolf to talk about yesterdays decision. Background first on this case, how it came before the Supreme Court. Me. T thank you for having the last set of major cases are in 2003, both out of michigan. One of which said that the university of michigan undergraduate school could not use quotas, racial preference quotas. Lawother one said the school could use race among. Ther factors that said opponents of racial preferences to get a sed,titutional minute pas they succeeded in 2006. It has been the subject of legal efforts. To thee finally gets Supreme Court after the lower. Ourt ruled one way the Supreme Court yesterday, after oral arguments in october, the Supreme Court took six months to come up with this decision and in a 62 decision said it was not for them to overrule what state voters wanted visavis preferences at universitie