Designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 149 printed in the house report 115297 offered by mr. Flores of texas. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 504, the gentleman from texas, in flores, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Flores i rise to offer an amendment that redirects 120 million from c. M. S. Overhead spending, a 3. 5 reduction, toward increasing funding in three specific areas. 40 million for pediatric Cancer Research, 40 million for alzheimers research, and 40 million to address the countrys open yode crisis. The approval of this amendment will motivate c. M. S. To modify its punitive bureaucratic culture. Ardworking american c. M. S. failure to taking is a notable example of bureaucratic incompetence. American families expect them to work with Health Care Providers to ensure the efficient delivery of health care. In 2012, the act was passed and signed into law due to the mandatory and harsh sanctions that c. M.
1. 1 billion over 20192017. Now, we have already said what the Congressional Budget Office had reported earlier, that if we dont pass Something Like the alexandermurray proposal, this is what happens. If the if the if the costsharing payments are not made, it will go up. Our proposal would take them down. The federal debt will increase by 194 billion over ten years if we dont passion our proposal pass our proposal due to the extra cost of higher premiums and up to 16 million americans may live in counties where theyre not able to buy any insurance in individual markets. Now, there are 350,000 tennesseans in individual markets in tennessee and they will be terrified by the prospect of not being able to have any insurance to buy by the skyrocketing premiums. So i thank senator cornyn follow allowing me to interrupt and make a brief statement. But let me go to the bottom line once more. The president has said repeatedly, senator murray has said repeatedly, i have said repeatedly the alexa
Committee today. Rather than rehash all of those i will refer back to those, it will cause me to vote against this nominee. She is undoubtedly a very bright lawyer she has had a successful career. I none of us have concerns about her willingness to stand as an independent evaluation of the legality and constitutionality of the administrations actions have caused me great concern. I hoped and expected my concerns would be alleviated during the hearings. They were intensified at that hearing and that is a source of disappointment to me. Has for bills that are under consideration today, in the last congress, and i supported senator coin ins legislation to protect the victims of trafficking. I hope to be able to do so again today but some of that made depends on the outcome of our votes on some of the amendments. I support senator blooms alls amendment and as unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor of that amendment. Without objection so ordered. Some amendments cost me some concern i
Shutdown continues. Lockheed martin is based in bethesda, maryland. Officialsaos as fire say a man doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire on the national mall. Passersby rushed over and use shirts to try and put out the flame. It is not clear why he did it. The man was airlifted to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. New details tonight about the shooting death of the connecticut woman who led police on a chaotic car chase. She held the delusional belief that president obama was communicating with her, stalking her. Them a mercedes she had stopped taking medication for psychosis and depression. An investigation is underway to determine if the deadly force used was born to. Unwarranted. Says 26 shotsment were fired, who was unarmed. They happen to be working without pay because of the shutdown. The one euro daughter was in the car at the time of the incident was an unarmed but was unharmed. Baltimore county states attorney confirms a grand jury indicted her on drugre
Employees were signing their furlough letters. All three are trying to be positive about the situation and hope it will be resolved quickly. My wife and i, we are going to take this day by day. You will be prepared for anything as it comes, just like we have been in the previous years. According to the lieutenant colonel, National Guard troops who are deployed and on active duty will continue to be paid. Those who will be attending drills or are on reserve status will not. Those getting ready for deployment and training for deployment will continue to train and will get paid. But the ones that are normal drilling status, like the majority of us, will not be drilling this weekend, and we will have to postpone it until the future. And they wont get paid. Like many federal employees, those who were sent home here today are hopeful that some compromise can be reached and the government will get back to business as usual. We never know what is going to happen up in washington, but we hope f