Hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Congressman, carter what are you reading this summer . First of all i just finished two books that were really great reads. They talk about him growing up. In terms of western kentucky. It chronicles one of americas first serial killers. Hh holmeswho was interesting enough a doctor who owned a pharmacy and i am a pharmacist so i had interest there. I currently started two books. One is american sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal. Never read any of her work before but it is something i am very interested in. She talks about health care and and what she thinks can be done. I am interested in her perspective. I am not sure we agree but i want to keep an open mind and see perspectives of health care ask what we can do. Just last night i had dinner with ron powers who wrote a new book, nobody cares about crazy people, and it is about Mental Illness in america and a personal book for him. This a book about some of his family i a
,orning at 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000, independents, 202 7488002. You also can catch up with us on facebook and twitter. A good thursday morning to you here. Some of the headlines today about the ongoing efforts when it comes to health care in this country. Health care bill set for a fast rewrite. And a nod to bipartisanship, they write deal on existing health law could emerge if the senate bill fails. Washington times, republicans set new deadline to repeal obama care. Is somee of mcconnells comments on the floor of the senate. Is unfortunate, that our Democratic College refused to work with us in a serious way to copperheads and we address obamacares failures, in the seven years since i have passed it. I regret that they continue to demonstrate an unserious attitude about all of this today , but it is increasingly clear that obamacare is negative trends will only get works obamacares negative trends will only get worse unless we act. Host this morning in the editorial page of
People never write about that team. Glad to see you here. Councilwoman deborah, thank you for being care. And crockett who is running. I told my staff, make sure i get crockett some money, i have not done that yet. Ok. Last time i spoke at the Las Vegas Chamber of commerce, i said i know yall had a lot of questions. We have each was of doing a little quiz here. I can give a speech on for 20 minutes on any subject you like or i can answer questions. I have told i have 15 or 20 minutes to talk and 20 minutes to answer questions. What about just going to the questions . I did not do the quiz, i just decided what we would do. We do not need to make this as formal. Ask me a question, ok . We have to speak directly into this microphone. It is a cspan microphone. It is not piped in. You have to speak directly into the microphone. I will be running the microphone for questions. If i could have a hand, we will get it started. Councilwoman . Obviously jobs and transportation are high priority fo
Right or the privilege or the ability to ask for an extension and a raising of our debt when, in fact, we havent acted responsibly with our spending . Nobody else in the country gets their credit raised when you havent acted responsibly. They actually check your credit score. They know what kind of bills youre paying, whether youre getting further behind. So should we in fact tear up the credit card. Should we force some good old adult supervision on congress, to where well actually be forced to make difficult decisions about priorities on how we spend americas money, and when i mean americas money, im thinking people working hard every day, they may not be the highest taxpayer, but it is unconscionable to me that when we spend their money, that were wasting 15 to 20 of it all the time. So i think we ought to tear it up. And the way we tear it up, we just tear it up. We tear the credit card up. We shred the credit card and we say youre going to live within your means. Youre going to st