both oklahoma and kentucky walking out of classrooms right now over pay raises and better funding for schools. here s a live look right now in frankfurt, kentucky where thousands of educators are rallying at the state capital, teachers there are furious after the legislature slipped some changes to their pension into a bill about sewage services. polo sandoval joins us now from frankfurt. take it away. reporter: there s of course that pension reform bill that has these teachers fuming but there s the funding issue. look down this sidewalk here just outside the kentucky state capital. you re seeing a massive crowd that had marched down the street from the local teachers association to the steps of the capital to have their voice heard. there s the pension issue is a hot button issue that they re talking about here, then there s also funding and that is what has brought teachers both current and retired out here including claudette green who recently tired as a principal.
seniors caught in the medicare part d donut hole will be helped to afford thousands of prescription drugs. rural hospitals that struggle, seniors, children, and safety net health care providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a legislative fix to the problem by december 2018. millions of pensioners, teamsters, carpenters, miners, bakery workers, and so many more are staring down cuts to their hard-earned pensions. they didn t do anything to cause those cuts. their lively hooihoods are stak these pensions. we ought to make sure they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to
thousands, millions of seniors afford prescription drugs. we have waited long for this. rural hospitals, that struggled seniors, children, and safety net healthcare providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a legislative fix to the problem by decembe december 2018. millions of pensioners, teamsters, carpenterrers, miners, bakery workers and some more are staring down cuts to their hard earned pensions. they didn t do anything to cause those cuts. their livelihoods are staked to these pensions. we ought to make sure that they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to take up and pass the puck lewis act. we couldn t reach an agreement to do that but know we have a process and potentially the means and
helping thousands, millions of seniors afford prescription drugs. we have waited long for this. rural hospitals that struggle, seniors, children and safety net hm providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a fix to the problem by 2018. millions of pensioners, teams r teamste teamsters, miners, bakery workers and so many more are staring down cuts to their hard earned pensions. they didn t do anything to cause those cuts. . their livelihoods are staked to these pensions. we ought to make sure that they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to take up and pass the butch lewis act. we couldn t reach on agreement to do that, but now we have a
believe that there is seriousness on the part of republicans about addressing it at another time. this also will hurt lots of other things unaddressed. disaster relief, children s health insurance program, community health centers. it s just stacked up to a point where we need a deal. andrea, within the next hour, believe, you will see senator schumer bring to the floor an amendment to the house cr bill, the bill in front of us that would put on the table all the things that we think we can agree on and we should agree on today to avoid a shutdown. let s drill down. what will be in that package? you talked about a list of things just now. are we talking about border security? c.h. i of i.p., dreamers, disaster relief for puerto rico? yes. a robust disaster relief package that addresses puerto rico and the virgin islands, western wildfires as well as texas and florida and the hurricane recovery funding. there s also a pension issue