With me is erik wasson for bloomberg news, Speaker Pelosi said the house will be taken up legislation for lower Prescription Drug prices and has been marked up by three house committees, how does the bill reduce drug cost and warehouse Democratic Leaders one of the top ten priorities for the congress. This is a signature part for the People Agenda and something that President Trump campaigned on with coming to the meeting of mine and throughout most of this year they were negotiating on this bill and the end of the day they had to, against it and democrats were forcing a bipartisan vote. The 250 most expensive drugs and also pressure Drug Companies to apply the new lower prices to private insurance to a series of taxes. And unfairly limits competition could reduce up to 100 drugs that were produced by pharmaceutical companies and they are not going anywhere in the nearterm and Chuck Grassley the finance chairman have come up with alternative bill to rebate and force manufacturers to re
The house of representatives is just about to come in for its daily session. We will take you to them now. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, it d. C. He december 10, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. Scarborough, for five min
Violence and politics, said briefing with reporters. Mr. Mccarthy this morning i listened to Speaker Pelosi give us historical references. The one that she skipped was Alexander Hamilton when he wrote, there will always be the greatest danger that the decision to use the impeachment power would be driven by partisan animosity instead of real demonstrations of incense or guilt. Today is the day that hamilton warned us. Today with the speaker announcement she has weakened this nation. It was not new news. They always had this prewritten timeline from the day they got sworn in. Lets go through their timeline. After winning the majority they had to decide who would become the chairs of their committees. Impeachment committee, judiciary, had a campaign for it. Nadler campaigned on the theme that he would be the best for impeachment, and he won the position. On the very first day of swearingin by their new freshmen that got them the majority, after holding their hand up and swearing to the c
Guest its remarkable the United States of america we have aon shortage of really important idicines. This has been going on for 20 years and we have had hundreds and hundreds. One of the medicines that is in shortage right now is a really important blood center that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i dont know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we dont have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages in right now theres a shortage of her really important antibiotic for lifethreatening infections. These are lifeanddeath medicines. Sometimes we can get them and we are rationing medicine in the United States of america. Its really quite remarkable. Host is this hyperbole or isar this a real existing probl . We hear a lot of talk from a lot of Different Industries saying the sky is falling here. Is
Getting up the highway to ski on blue ice sometimes. Concord,school in where i would really look forward to taking that first cut of the hockey season on the black ice. Now the ice does not even freeze. So it is hard to do today. But i love the primary tradition of this state. Not just because you voted for me. [laughter] it goes a lot farther back than that. When i was 24 years old, stationed on the other of the broadcasts andio weeks old newspapers in a mail pouch that finally got to us shared with me my idealized introduction to the phenomenon of the New Hampshire primary. After one of my closest friends in college killed in combat, New Hampshire was no longer just the place i what to high school. I went to high school. In the winter of 1968, New Hampshire was Something Else entirely. Some of you here remember that closely. Ageons of young people my legions of young people my age, an army of kids for peace, caring pamphlets while i was caring a guy the thousand miles away. Just kids