if humira may be right for you. with humira, control is possible. due to this unprecedented level of obstruction that we have been experiencing, we will be in session the first two weeks of august. if i were them, i wouldn t want to go home and face the voters either. majority leader mitch mcconnell cancelled almost half of the senate s august recess this week, saying he will keep lawmakers in washington in order to give congress more time to make progress on president trump s agenda. in addition to repealing and replacing obama care, passing a budget, and beginning work on tax reform, are at the top of the to do list. but mr. mcconnell also hopes to push through the backlog of more than 100 presidential nominees who have yet to be confirmed by the senate. we re back with dan henninger,
that. you can t say punishment will be the only issue. tucker: there is no punishment at all.sa well, there needs to be some. tucker: drug companies, we know their names, they are profiting from this stuff. pharmacies are too. they are making the most money off those deaths and no one has said well, wait a second, why don t we punish the people profiting from a scourge that is killing thousands of people? we would need regulation.eo money invested into these things, passing a budget. they can t just be punishments. it has to be prevention.in talking to the kids. teaching and training doctors not to just prescribe opiates randomly because it solves the quick problem, knowing that at the end they were talking today about taking your pills that you ve got in your medicine cabinet and bringing them and disposing of them properly. it took us five years, tucker, to pass comprehensive addiction
message that congress has a month to avoid a government shutdown by passing a budget. nobody gets to hold the government hostage by their own ideological demands. reporter: the president warned there will be more severe weather events triggered by climb change. he will travel to alaska to see the effects of global warming first hand. alison. dow setting a record on thursday, but i don t think stocks have stabilize. wait until you hear what is coming up next.
pleased with this outcome in some way. it may be bad for everyone really. if you care about advancing any agenda, especially a tough one like on immigration or, god forbid, passing a budget next time. i guess the one group it s good for is college professors. because either an economist or a sociologist is going to the house of representatives. kyle kondik, thank you so much. we ll obviously be watching this race very closely and hope you ll join us again. thank you. thank you to you all. coming up, remembering ruby dee. she was an extraordinary actor an activist. but first, my letter of the week. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented.
budget. they finally passed a farm bill, and according to published reports they will not push the country to financial precipice when it comes to next month s debt ceiling. but there is always a but. on the one issue that isn t standard operating procedure for a political party, that would be stuff like passing a budget, approving a farm bill, and raising the debt ceiling, on an issue that calls for the party to chart a path forward for itself, there will be challenge. look no further than the question of immigration reform. it appears that the gop is not quite there yet. i think it s time to deal with it. but now we deal with it is going to be critically important. [ inaudible question ] we re going to talk to our members today about the principles that the leadership team has put together. i m not going to get out any further. we re going to have the conversation today and i m sure you ll hear all about it. it is highly likely that the speaker himself will hear about