celebration ceremony, senator susan collins. reporter: right. do you have any understanding of why that happened? reporter: nothing definitive from her office whether she skipped it because she s upset about what happened up on capitol hill. essentially, she was promised by the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell he would make every effort to get some obamacare bills put in place that would shore up that program and that did not happen. the so-called stabilization bills that are pending up on capitol hill, that did not happen and she made no bones about it, she was not happy with that, although she did put out a statement with lamar alexander saying we understand this is going to be taken up next year and, as a matter of fact, mark short, legislative director over here at the white house, told cnn earlier that the president would sign some of these obamacare stabilization rules, which may become very critical, john. as you know, the president, as part of this tax reform bill,
that, although she did put out a statement with lamar alexander saying we understand this is going to be taken up next year and, as a matter of fact, mark short, legislative director over here at the white house, told cnn earlier that the president would sign some of these obamacare stabilization rules, which may become very critical, john. as you know, the president, as part of this tax reform bill, signed a repeal of the obamacare individual mandate. so that program, barack obama s signature legislative achievement, is going to be flailing somewhat in this new year because of that and it s going to need that kind of assistance. the question is whether or not that s going to happen. you heard this town called a swamp. it was more like a farm this week with all of the horse trading going on. keep in mind, jeff flake is expecting a daca bill signed and you may see the president coming under a lot of pressure from republicans to honor these promises that the white house and congressional