Vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. Twothirds of the senators voting a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the president of the United States. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i move to executive session to consider calendar number 547. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. T ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of housing and urban development, brian d. Montgomery of texas to be deputy. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
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Theyve covered a lot on fox. Yeah, right. Okay. I think there is actually been a lot of scrutiny in recent years, but i say i love cnn and i appreciate the comments. Cnn, cnn is a global newsgathering muscle. Fox is an entertainment muscle. And the more the people see the difference, the better off will all be. Okay, thats it for today. A special thank to brian stelter, Franklin Foer and baron. Thank you for beingbarbara mcqu. Right. Barb. You can leave now while i work here. Is done. It all gets gets downhill after this. Barb is a professor from practice, the university of michigan law school. Shes a big michigan sports fan. So im, sure, shes aware that the last time arizona played michigan in mens basketball, arizona won by 18 points. Shes also a legal analyst for nbc news and msnbc and a cohost of the podcast sisters in law. For seven years, barb served u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan, appointed by barack obama. And she was the first woman to serve in that positi
Right. Barb. You can leave now while i work here. Is done. It all gets gets downhill after this. Barb is a professor from practice, the university of michigan law school. Shes a big michigan sports fan. So im, sure, shes aware that the last time arizona played michigan in mens basketball, arizona won by 18 points. Shes also a legal analyst for nbc news and msnbc and a cohost of the podcast sisters in law. For seven years, barb served u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan, appointed by barack obama. And she was the first woman to serve in that position. While you may know, you may know barbara best from tv legal commentary. You not know that earlier in her career she worked as a sportswriter and copy editor. That may explain why shes told me her dream job would be to play shortstop for the detroit tigers. Barbara has authored attack from within how disinformation is savvy tarnishing america. Released just a few weeks ago and already number three on the New York Times bests