Now we know that china russia, venezuela voted to approve this. They will vote to lift the u. S. Sanctions. The only power we have left to override the president s veto, and groups like aipac who i have met with the past several days who have to appeal to democrats, this is a bad deal. That is the only way that this whole process can be stopped. Why does it need to be stopped . It allows them to continue their Nuclear Weapons program. That is not why we passed the sanctions over the last decade. We passed the sanctions to dismantle their nuclear capability. The idea that it is for peaceful, Energy Purposes is laughable. The icbm capability can continue to go forward. You develop that to deliver a nuclear warhead. It will start a middle east arms race. When i was in saudi, they said, why are you negotiating with iran . Our allies are confused and do not know if they are still allies. They are strongly opposed to this. Now we see a Nuclear Arms Race in the middle east, egypt will look at
Which is one of the tragic consequences. Attics okay. Okay. Drug addiction is a tragedy. But it is a bigger tragedy when they die because of the drug war itself. Finally i should wrapi should wrap this up by saying that is futile is this drug warriors as destructive as it is that is not the real reason why we should call for the end to this war. I mean, we see the futility going to put him back in jail make sure he is incarcerated for the rest of his life without parole like they did the silk road guy. You know, for what . What is the. . They put him back in jail or they dont. Nothing is going to change any more than it has over the last four years. But the real reason that we want to end this war on drugs is not just the futility of it but because of the concept of human freedom. Ted mentioned russia and iran. Conservative examples of the war on drugs. Lets look at the leftist examples like cuba and north korea and china and vietnam all of which have drug laws and the drug war because
You could buy that car, and it wouldnt have to be fixed. And we think thats a loophole that needs to be closed. There are also pieces of legislation we wish the senate would consider like giving nhtsa Imminent Hazard Authority. We were criticized last year for having too cozy a relationship with industry, but the reality is, is that when a recall occurs, if the company that has been recalled disagrees with our assessment our recourse so go to court and spend years trying to to litigate that issue while dangerous stuff is on the streets. The alternative is to develop some kind of settlement with the automaker or the oem and, you know usually weve been able to get favorable results that way. But if Congress Wants us to have more teeth, give us the tools so that we can fight those battles directly. And, you know, these are the kinds of things that weve proposed previously, and itd be nice for those issues to be addressed through this legislation. Dave shepardson. East one of those be eith
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
Who are still here to fight and serve us and protect us. Remember congress decided shortly after world war i, to decide that the 11th day, the day that the armistice was signed, the 11th of november, the 11th hour, 11 00 in the morning, would be the time to pay tribute to the veterans. So were all going to toll that bell one more time to give thanks to our veterans for all theyve done for us, for all they will do for us in the future. You know, its b its best when you talk about veterans, to talk about them of the people they were, the people they are, whether they are alive or passed on. I want to talk about two veterans whose paths crossed my life, to point out why we owe them so much and we have so much to be thankful for. One of them is Jackson Elliott cox, iii, of bird county, which is the bird dog capital of america. Its the home of a Nuclear Power plant. Its a beautiful rural county in georgia. Jack was my best friend in college. We met in 1962. We graduated in 1966. Ill never f