Many things that are important for the health of the American People. Not only the Community Health centers, which expire in a few weeks, not only the medicare extenders, which includes the therapy caps for seniors in medicare, the Home Visiting program for seniors, the special Diabetes Program, the Teaching Health sent, the National Health centers, the National Health service corps, all of these things. Also the safety net hospitals. As of january 1, the dish or safety net programs for all these hospitals around the country that have to take care of so many poor people, that funding has expired and theyve actually had to cut the funding. So how do you stand up here and say to me and the American People that somehow you care about these things, you want to deal with these things . You are not dealing with these things. What are you doing here again . Once again youre bringing a bill to the floor that has all kinds of repeal of taxes. I dont even want to get into the deal. These are the
The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On in vote, the yeas are 62, it is nays are perform and the nays are 38. The motion is not agreed to. The clerk will report. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 151 s. 1599. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 1599 a bill to provide antiretaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the motion. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that the committeereported substitute amendment be agreed to the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that
I would like to thank the attorney for his and his offices work as well as a dedicated terry from the Department Civil Rights Division and extend my thanks to the solicitor for being aa partner in this matter. We have a strong working relationship and look forward to continued collaboration at the parallel state and federal prosecutions worked their way through the respective court systems. Thank you for your attention. [inaudible question] yet to be determined. Both cases will proceed through the court system and we will work to reduce unnecessary burden to the families. [inaudible question] deciding who goes 1st. There are a number of factors. Both cases are in the early stages and have yet to have motions. It is difficult to say. This seems to fit the definition of domestic terrorism. There is no specific domestic terrorism statute. However, hate crimes are the original domestic terrorism. The behavior alleged to have occurred his archetypal behavior. We havewe have a defendant who
Son to grow up and run a company in the manner that valeant was run. How do you respond . We made a lot of changes in the last few weeks. I have been on the board for about five weeks. We have a new ceo, joe papa, who is starting today. Today is his First Official day. Appropriate i should be on your show. The companys made some mistakes but i think where charlie is wrong, hes wrong to indict an entire company on the basis of a few mistakes and a leader that is no longer with the business now. And the 22,000 people work for this company, i think this is a Great Company. When you look at the one of the things i was sort of thinking about to give you a sense of context, think about when berkshire invested in Goldman Sachs. Goldman sachs had to be one of the most reviled companies in the country, accused of all kinds of bad subprime, misleading investors, every day another negative article. Feels like this is the same moment for valeant. It didnt stop buffett from making an investment in
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