Responsibility we have in the stewardship of this beautiful blue and green orb that we live on known as planet earth. Lets honor our responsibility and lets not override the veto that the president has put on this bill. Thank you, mr. President. I am here today to discuss the Keystone Pipeline approval legislation and the president s recent veto as well as our own our effort to override the veto. I will be joined by a distinguished colleague from south dakota, also are calling on the other side of the aisle from West Virginia will be joining us shortly, as well as the chairman of the energy committee, are calling from alaska. I would like to make a couple of points upfront and then turn to my colleague from south dakota. What ive got here, and i have shown it before on the senate or on the senate floor, is the route that typed xl pipeline will take. It will come down through montana where he would pick up domestic crude. Often people think of it as moving canadian crude, but it also pi
Said yes. So there was such a huge overpayment going on, 85 of seniors going through traditional medicare 15 through the private Insurance Market and the amount of money going at that time to private Insurance Market was hugely overpaid compared to everybody else and most seniors then were picking up the costs system of point is, we put some caps on overpayment that have saved dollars. And that in fact have gone back into making sure seniors can receive prescription drugs by closing the doughnut hole by getting a wellness visit every year without out of pocket cost, and other things. While we have to look at this amendment, i would say to my friend from alabama that i come from a very different perspective about what we actually did because i believe that we looked for savings and then strengthened medicare, in fact benefits for seniors have gone up. Mr. When medicare costs were cut, the money should have gone to doc fix, but it was taken and spent on ppaca, but not for the doctors. Bu
All those in favor say i . Opposed . It passed. Next to senator baldwin. Thank you. This amendment would restore a point of order that was eliminated in the against reconciliation legislation that would increase the deficit or increase the server us. I want to yield to senator white house the balance of my time. This must be the most important vote we take today. I support the senator. Without objection. This takes us act two 2008 in the way the committee ran. I would ask for a no info on this. Please pull the committee. Please poll the committee. The amendment has failed. As job training. Next is job training. It would reduced under redundancy. It comes about training programs. We have done studies on this to show that we have 47 different programs spread over several different agencies, many have not been subject to a performance review. Some overlap with one another. I hope we would get support on both sides. Senator kaine and i joined on this one as we did on the current Technical
I am interested in protecting Vulnerable People, very much aware we are going to need some policy reforms to do that. There is something in between that and 400 billion which, in my view, is going to put at risk so many older people. I am sure all of you, i have seen a number of you talk about demographics in the days ahead. Not only are we going to see baby boomers turning 65, but a rapid increase in the number of people who live beyond 80 based on son of some of the studies i see. That is a prescription to meeting medicaid longterm. In a lot of instances, because they live so long, they will essentially exhaust private resources. Senator sessions talks about new policies. One of the things i have been interested in our fresh approaches to encourage private savings for longterm care. Again, that is going to take some time. We have some people who i believe are going to suffer under this approach. Thank you. Senator there is still a minute left in the opposition. I just want to make a
If you oppose this bill, call us at 202 7488001. We are also online. You can tweet at us, cspanwj. We are on facebook facebook. Com cspan. You can also send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Good morning everyone. Our topic this morning is the fasttrack trade legislation that will be moving through congress quickly. Lets take a look at an article from your tim New York Times, it heralds a divisive fight within the Democratic Party, one that could spill into the 2060 president ial campaign. Some are demanding to know Hillary Clintons position on the bill to know whether to give president obama tpa. From cq news, the proposal would require the president to consult with congress at key points in the negotiations, a condition apparently designed to address lawmakers complaints that the obama mr. Asia has been excessively secretive and its handling of the tpp. Yesterday, [video clip] an agreement was reached on trade Promotion Authority built also known as fasttrack. Basically what that wo