what s the role of health care in the federal government? what role will the states play? and where s the money going to come from? whose pocket? secretary levitt, we ll leave it it there. thank you for that perspective. we re talking about this, again, if you can believe it after the break. first, back to donald trump jr. and russia and how that preelection and the campaign election went down. the two stories we have do not seem to match up. what is congress going to do to get to the bottom of it. republican congressman chris stewart is joining me next to talk about it. she s nationally recognized
choice to make on the floor of the united states senate on both sides of the aisle in terms of whether we vote yes or no. that is why we think it s extremely important that we are allowed the opportunity to ask second rounds of questions after we have heard all of the questions. and today we have three or four committee hearings going on at the same time as this, so it is extremely challenging for our senators to be here on a nomination they care deeply about, on a subject that we care deeply about. so i would just like to point out again that several nominees that have come before if we re going to talk about presidents, secretary levitt, president bush s second hhs secretary, five bipartisan senators participated in a second round. senator daschle, president obama s first hhs secretary, three bipartisan senators participated. it s an unprecedented for a chairman to turn down a member
of questions, secretariy is beal yurks one round with one member asking a second round. daschle, one round plus three. levitt, six members asked a second round. thompson, one round of seven empties eay iey ies minutes eac. my decision is rather than give six of 23 members a second round that it would be better to let every senator have seven minutes. now, senator isaacson. thank you, mr. chairman. i d like to ask unanimous consent that the remarks that were prepared for me to read be submitted for the record. they will be. because i m not going to read them. i have a unique honor and privilege to introduce a friend of mine for 30 years. someone i know to be a great politician, a great practicing
the united states senate on both sides of the aisle in terms of whether we vote yes or no. that is why we think it s extremely important that we are allowed the opportunity to ask second rounds of questions after we ve heard all of the questions. and today we have three or four committee hearings going on at the same time as this so it is extremely challenging for our senators to be here on a nomination they care deeply about on a subject that we care deeply about. so i would just like to point out again that several nominees that have come before, if we re going to talk about precedent, secretary levitt, president bush s second hhs secretary, five senators participated in a second round. secretary daschle, three bipartisan senators participated. and again, it is unprecedented for a chairman to turn down a member who has a question to ask. so for the record, i would just