Cheryl stocks open higher in europe on the back of a big extra for a vote in the senate that happened friday. European markets pointing to a higher open. Trip and half . Cost it one to 2 . Cheryl done deal, cbs by aetna for 65 billion. Fbn am beginning right now. Lauren good morning. 5 01 a. M. Right now. Thanks for joining us. And lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning. Im cheryl casone. A latenight decision to get the tax reform bill in the senate done and done. Lauren the wee hours of the Morning Saturday morning. Thats when we begin with this morning. The senate approving the tax reform bill. The real work begins to iron out differences at the house version. Congress returning to work a day early to get the socalled reconciliation process underway. Gop lawmakers to send a final compromise bill to President Trump by christmas. Thank you, mr. June 22 Republican Congress members to get the next. They still need to be made in confidence to get these things done. Big difference inside th
This deal . Do you support it . Are you opposed . You can also send us a tweet. Or tell us what you think on race book. Com the phone lines are open so start dialing in. Atlanta journalconstitution says here are the details those are some of the details of the Iran Nuclear Deal. What do you think, should congress support or oppose the president on this . Christina peterson talks about the review process by congress. Lets begin with yesterday and the initial reaction from Republican Leadership who control both the house and the senate floor agenda. Guest Republican Leaders made very clear yesterday that they are not going into this with great optimism, that this will be a deal they can support. They were sharply critical of announcing justin that upon further expansion inspection if the deal is what they think it is, they will try hard to block it. Host how would they do that much . Guest the bill has 60 days in congress for review and by the end of that which will probably be when they
Affordable care act. We wanted to start with the chairman of the Senate Health committee, lamar alexander. He has been holding a series of hearings. Here is the senator talking about the goal. [video clip] our goal is to come up with in a census consensus early next week. Hopefully we can have senator mcconnell an Agreement Congress can pass by the end of the month that will limit premium increases next year and begin to lower premiums after that and prevent insurers from leaving the market. That is our schedule. What happens if we dont succeed . Last year, or percent of american counties had one Insurance Company on the exchange. This year 36 have one insurer. Of counties half will have one or zero counties on the exchange. We have heard from state Insurance Commissioners that this monopoly in so many. Ounties drives up premiums without costsharing reductions, the Congressional Budget Office, the joint committee on taxation, and as our witnesses have said, premiums will increase 20 in
Naoam leavy. Want to do an update on the Affordable Care act. We wanted to start with the chairman of the Senate Health committee, lamar alexander. He has been holding a series of hearings. Here is the senator talking about the goal. [video clip] our goal is to come up with in a census consensus early next week. Hopefully we can have senator mcconnell an Agreement Congress can pass by the end of the month that will limit premium increases next year and begin to lower premiums after that and prevent insurers from leaving the market. That is our schedule. What happens if we dont succeed . Last year, or percent of american counties had one Insurance Company on the exchange. This year 36 have one insurer. Of counties half will have one or zero counties on the exchange. We have heard from state Insurance Commissioners that this monopoly in so many. Ounties drives up premiums without costsharing reductions, the Congressional Budget Office, the joint committee on taxation, and as our witnesse
Mr. Toomey mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. I am going to make a unanimous consent request, b but first i want to say a few words about the legislation about which the request pertains, and i want to thank my senate my colleague, senator bob casey, for joining me on this. It was back in 2014 that senator casey and i introduced the Eric Williams correctional officer protection act. Its a bipartisan bill, mr. President , and i. T. Got a simple idea its got a simple idea. The side to better enable those men and women who protect us every day by working as corrections officers, to better enable them to protect themselves in the very dangerous environments in which they go to work every day. Amazingly enough, under the bureau of prison policy, Prison Guards are often placed on duty guarding large numbers of inmates by themselves, unarmed, and with no meaningful way to defend themselves. Officer Eric Williams of wayne c