Charging of high Interest Rates and the theory is if you dont have a lot of money i should not be charging you so enrages. We have working people with 30 Interest Rates. That is higher than a loan shark. And then to work on that. [inaudible] that is an excellent question. The number of people all over the country and i like very, very much. But he believes that we have the job the this steady with the bac30 so we could have we have cn record obstructionism. In the old days people would require the 60 votes. Is very rare. Now with any significant piece of legislation. [applause] and by the way i think senator demarco will lead the nation but in a way i had no reason at all. But i thought it was important to get it out there. And a republican colleague and that is what they do. I think we should have picked the repinelican agenda in but the American People should sit down and they would take that issue. [applause] [inaudible] spec anybody cared if they want to work but here is what i thi
Where i am and i will read the introduction to a the books then 78 hours after that. [laughter] they did not tell you that . Then we will take some questions at 4 00 in the morning. Im a long as serving independence in congressional history into may say why . That i believe most Political Parties are heavily dominated and making millions of working families dont have the life they should be having with the levels of government and i have chosen to be an independent. The democrats civil least annette and i begin my political career are running for the United States senate on a thirdparty ticket end i received the though back in 1971 iran for the third party with 2 down 01 . [laughter] not the trajectory we were hoping but i may not be very bright but i am persistent came back and ran for the senate again against my now colleague patrick leahy. He wanted and i lost a leg up 4 in the threeway race then two years later iran for governor in elections every two years in vermont and i got 6 p
So i think you have to be judicious about it and i think also whether you choose to run within the Democratic Party or outside the Democratic Party, this i do believe that i think the republican agenda, tax breaks for alien heirs and savage cuts engage the middle class and working families, these guys really do want to take us back to the 1920s where if you are old and poor you are on your own, no healthcare for you didnt matter workers had no rights, do not underestimate, these are serious people, they are not fooling around. They want to take effect to the 1920s to to a darker part of society for a handful of very wealthy people. I think their views, their ideology is way out of touch with what the American People will be. . We did not have the option of not fighting. We can beat them. Nobody believes in the ideology. Nobody thanks that children in america should not have health care, that workers should not have rights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, it is the democrats have
Ms. Heitkamp mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Ms. Heitkamp mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection,so ordered. Ms. Heitkamp thank you, mr. President. Congress said our country desperately needs to have an honest, meaningful, transparent and bipartisan conversation about improving our health care system. You know, it shouldnt be a tall order, but around here things that seem common sense to the rest of the country are never simple. Instead partisanship too often wins. Weve seen that with the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. As it was crafted behind closed doors without allowing any democrat or the public to see it until it was a proposal. Its good news that the vote on the bill was delayed, but we must continue to have this conversation as the debate continues, because that bill was bad for north dakota. Only when we seek real Bipartisan Solutions do i believe that we will be successful in impr
Ms. Heitkamp mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Ms. Heitkamp mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection,so ordered. Ms. Heitkamp thank you, mr. President. Congress said our country desperately needs to have an honest, meaningful, transparent and bipartisan conversation about improving our health care system. You know, it shouldnt be a tall order, but around here things that seem common sense to the rest of the country are never simple. Instead partisanship too often wins. Weve seen that with the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. As it was crafted behind closed doors without allowing any democrat or the public to see it until it was a proposal. Its good news that the vote on the bill was delayed, but we must continue to have this conversation as the debate continues, because that bill was bad for north dakota. Only when we seek real Bipartisan Solutions do i believe that we will be successful in impr