Ms. Heitkamp mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Ms. Heitkamp mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection,so ordered. Ms. Heitkamp thank you, mr. President. Congress said our country desperately needs to have an honest, meaningful, transparent and bipartisan conversation about improving our health care system. You know, it shouldnt be a tall order, but around here things that seem common sense to the rest of the country are never simple. Instead partisanship too often wins. Weve seen that with the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. As it was crafted behind closed doors without allowing any democrat or the public to see it until it was a proposal. Its good news that the vote on the bill was delayed, but we must continue to have this conversation as the debate continues, because that bill was bad for north dakota. Only when we seek real Bipartisan Solutions do i believe that we will be successful in impr
Ms. Heitkamp mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from north dakota. Ms. Heitkamp mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection,so ordered. Ms. Heitkamp thank you, mr. President. Congress said our country desperately needs to have an honest, meaningful, transparent and bipartisan conversation about improving our health care system. You know, it shouldnt be a tall order, but around here things that seem common sense to the rest of the country are never simple. Instead partisanship too often wins. Weve seen that with the Senate Republican Health Care Bill. As it was crafted behind closed doors without allowing any democrat or the public to see it until it was a proposal. Its good news that the vote on the bill was delayed, but we must continue to have this conversation as the debate continues, because that bill was bad for north dakota. Only when we seek real Bipartisan Solutions do i believe that we will be successful in impr
Local independent bookstore. We are excited to have our guest tonight. Technically the store closes at 8 00 p. M. But we will keep a register open and you will be able to exit the building out the back parking lot here. A perk. On to tonights guest, the taylor professor and he has served as the science consultant on movies such as watchman and the amazing spider man. His latest book, the physics of everyday things, was published by crown last week and that welcome be in joining james kakalios. We will be back with more live coverage from the eighth annual gaithersburg book thank you very much. Joe. Thank you to the University Bookstore for hosting this event and thank you everyone for coming indoors on a beautiful may day to sit inside and listen to talk about physics. You are my kind of, nerds. [laughter] we live our lives surrounded by the most amazing technologies such as, usb drives that can store entire libraries, are smart phones which far exceed the capabilities of anything imag
Insurance market. The remarks made at a motoring Club Rotary Club in kentucky shows a shift from the legislator. He raised the idea last week that they wanted to turn to the democrats. This is the first time he has explicitly raised the prospect of shoring of the Affordable Care act. Mitch mcconnell who pledged to eradicate the law known as obamacare root and branch, raised the prospect of working with democrats after a measure he had crafted behind closed doors. It would jettison the requirement that people prove they had health coverage, and would make deep, longterm cuts to the medicaid program. Listen to the coverage, local coverage, of the leaders remarks in his home state of kentucky. This is the abc affiliate with their coverage of his townhall meeting. Mitch mcconnell back into the bluegrass today. Onestop he made was at a Health Pavilion community center. Senator Mitch Mcconnell taken time to address the rim before accepting questions from the audience. One of the most pressin
Before we get to audience questions, i wanted to ask a Public Service question, when veterans are approaching me, one thing i tell them is you should contact local congressman or senators office. They can help get you more information. Tonight, we have talked to veterans that were having issues with the va. Can you tell everyone how to get in touch with the office if they are having issues with the va . Senator cruz thank you for hosting and the leadership you provide and for being part of this discussion. I hope we have a candid and frank and real discussion about the challenges veterans face, the challenges our country faces. Some of those challenges are dealing with federal bureaucracy, and it can be confusing, frustrating, maddening. I can tell you in our senate office, we have an extensive team devoted to constituent service and it is a team with a lot of experience. It is headed by a woman, joyce, who has 30 Years Experience in constituent service. And one of the first things i d