many dollars to buy it. senator, that s a promise that seemed to be a reach when president obama made it, and frankly when has any prediction that somehow the cost of health care is going to go down, based on some intervention by the government, when has that prediction ever come true? that s why i m trying to get the decisions chuck, out of washington and to the states. get this out of government control and into patient control. make let people at home make the decisions that s best for them, and part of that is letting them buy what works for them and they can afford. you know, under obamacare, people have had to fwhie so-called essential health benefits chafs huge basket of insurance for many people. and certainly i hear about it every weekend in wyoming, i heard about it at a health fair in buffalo, wyoming, this past weekend, they said look, it was insurance, i didn t want it, couldn t afford, didn t need, it was too much, it wasn t right for me.
job of the deputy secretary to play a leading role to recruit people at the next level down and particularly given that tillerson won t really know who to recruit, having someone in that job who will recruit people who is sensitive and thoughtful is important. tillerson can say these are who i want in my state department. i m bringing my people in. but these are the type of people that i want filling up the state department. as you know, it doesn t always work exactly that way. it s a negotiation between the secretary and the white house. and there s gives and takes and so on. it s rare for a secretary to have imposed on him someone this far out there that he doesn t want. especially because sheldon adelson, casino owner, is pushing this. it makes absolutely no sense. donald trump didn t need sheldon adelson s money to win. it s nice to have diversity around the table that s the hallmark of this program. interesting, mika, i went back and i ve been talki ining t
that he told the president-elect that. actually, he s calling, isn t he, mike, going around and calling democrats? i have heard from two democrats that claimed to have received calls from rudy guiliani asking the following question, if you were offard the attorney general s position would you do it? he thinks he is too good to be attorney general, and he s drunk with his own power, and this is all about trump. trump won this on his own. he didn t need rudy guiliani, and didn t need lady gaga. he didn t need rudy guiliani, and he didn t need anybody and he didn t need these contributors that are telling
in nevada alone, up 14%. people who didn t need food stamps before all a sudden realize it? generally, it s 1% to 6%. the real issue here is these people qualify. these are people who are in need of the food. and the idea that some say, oh this is terrible but they didn t know before? that s right. we as americans established this program to make sure that children that those in need don t starve. that s bad? yeah at least no waste, fraud or aibuseabuse. this is exactly what obama and liberals want. they want a society that is completely dependent on the federal government from the cradle to the grave. you want them starving in the streets. two-thirds of spending last year two-thirds of all federal spending last year went to entitlement programs. we can t afford these programs juan. you know what it was, social security medicare. why don t you talk
senator mansion, any saving this? we re working on it. i m disappointed. i know paul and my heart bleeds to all of you all. this is a high priority for us. i asked to be on the veterans committee, if for some reason we can t work this out today, i assure we ll come back in the next congress and that will be our first priority. but what is really ironic about this whole thing, some people talk about because of the funding we didn t have an offset. you have to set your priorities where your values are and we ask people to come back and we don t have the help available and then we pass a bill and that bill that i voted against had $5 billion for military defense. for products they didn t want or didn t need. help our service people that are coming back and needs help to transition back into civil life