likelihood of healthy outcomes for children if they re not skipping meals or having a says to nutritious meals. they re not worrying they will end up on the streets. so it is a healthcare bill, even though we didn t have a prescription drug in it yes. here s the thing. we beat the pharmaceutical drug companies. they wanted that have patent protections. we got it out. it is doable. it s not done yet. it is unfortunate there are some members in our caucus that want to keep us from doing that. but we will keep fighting. we ll keep our eye on it. congressman bates, i want to ask you this question. when you think about who delivered the power of the federal government to democrats, it was voters of color. record numbers of voters of color. so for fourth quarter, they don t wake up reading the post, the times or the journal and fought reading white papers or
is that what we want? somebody look at these profit numbers and tax revenue numbers and this is phony. he should be ashamed of himself for putting this stuff out there. this is the gamble they are taking because they have a divided government and they have to sell this to a divided congress. $78 billion of this plan goes to irs workers to go after people who don t pay taxes. this is minuscule. and they think that attacking pharmaceutical drug companies with higher controls and tax decreases and making higher subsidies, they think it is going to balance the budget. i will give you breaking news, they will never see that money. by the way, i thought that we owed the pharmaceutical
and let s ends up talking about something substantive. what is the latest on our attempts to battle this crisis that is putting the next generation at risk? well, it s going to have to be on hands on deck. the federal government s got to do a better job. the dea and f.d.a. dick durbin, a democrat and my friends, we passed a bill together to try to get the dea and the f.d.a. to their job setting quotas. the pharmaceutical companies have to do a better job. there was an episode over a ten month period pharmaceutical drug companies sold three, i think it was three million opioid bills to a town in west virginia. you know how many members of the population it is? it s 400 people 4,000 people, i think. i mean, let s stop our doctors have to do a better job
pharmaceutical drug companies and i m willing to bet they re paying for some of the ads against me that are secret, the dark money that s being spent. she is one of 10 democrats trying to win reelection in a state president trump carried in 2016. the president came last night to say he does not think that she will ever vote with him. bill: okay, i ll pick it up from here. what does josh hawley think about that? the challenger? bill, i lost the feed there for one second. but i want to bring in josh hawley the republican candidate here. claire mccaskill is making the race about healthcare. partly. healthcare costs are out of control and she is responsible for that with her terrible support for obamacare but her failed record in the senate and