reasons why people don t support this bill or many other bills, and i don t speak on behalf of the tuesday group. i m speaking on behalf of myself and my constituents. many of my colleagues have had concern with the initial bill because it affects their state differently than it affects mine. that s the legislative process. that happens in every major piece of legislation we have. we can t forget the facts. the facts are that 29 million americans right now still don t have health care coverage when the law requires them to. 31 million americans have faced astronomical premium increases and have deductibles they can t meet because they can t afford to use the coverage they have. even bill clinton a few months ago said this was a disaster. we have to do something to help them. without a doubt, this thing needs to be tweaked. how much honestly pressure are you under from the white house to get this thing through, off your plate, move it to the senate, to give the white house a legislati
ultimate goal. he can go to democrats on infrastructure if he feels he needs to. he can go to them on some of the tax stuff. so that s going to be a real management effort by this speaker to sort of deal with his caucus members. he s got the tuesday group, he s got the freedom caucus and lord knows what other caucus may pop up over the next succeeding months that he s going to have to manage internally. and then there s nancy pelosi and what the democrats want to do or will not do. let s throw another item on the congressional docket this morning while we re at it. house republicans introduced a stopgap spending bill that will keep the government open another week. it gives lawmakers until may 5th to strike a deal to keep the lights on through september. top republicans say lawmakers are close to a longer lasting agreement. lawmakers have until midnight this friday to pass a bill and prevent a shutdown. all that going on just today. andy card, always good to see you, sir. you ve give
what s fun about this is it s easy to read. it s like you re watching a game where it s easy to read the play. in a way, when we look at it, it doesn t really matter what the subject. it s just really easy to read the play. eventually republicans are going to do republican things. they re going to pass a health care bill that includes state flexibility. and mo brooks should have embraced that and said i m a republican, and i want state flexibility. boehner was the champion at setting the deadline and forcing members to get to yes by then, you have to set a deadline. paul ryan doesn t have the big stick, though, to do that. look, the freedom caucus is going to fall in line. they re protect bade super majority constituency. and frankly, the tuesday group, i think you ll peel off a few members. i think this will pass the house. what happens then is another question. but these are the majority members who represent diverse districts. i was a republican representing an obama district.
to appease some conservatives by allowing states to get a waiver for regulations on insurance companies that protect patients like coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and so-called essential health benefits, which includes things like er visits and maternity care. states would have to show people with high health care costs will be covered either through a high-risk pool or federal cost-sharing program. if the amendment goes in as drafted i ll support it. the freedom caucus has taken an official position which means the vast majority of our members will support it as well. we think the bill is much better. it s not full repeal, i ll be honest, its not, but as good as we think we can and let s get it to the senate. the question is whether the tuesday group will be on board. being the liberal wing of the republican conference. if they are staying on board, then we could have a vote as soon as the house leadership wants to schedule it. and that is the question. whether r
not prepared when donald trump won. how they didn t have a health care bill my understanding is they now have one.re thankfully the freedom caucus, the tuesday group, the saturday drinking group, the moderate caucus, they all came together and it looks like we have a deal. the president will sign it andog then they will send it to the senate. the fact that they weren t prepared really annoys me. it s embarrassing. there is no way to spin this. democrats are levying a lot of unfair criticism against republicans. that is the way the game is played but this one is frankly a fair criticism. eight years later and the republicans are still messing around with the provisions and trying to figure it out. it looks juvenile. i am sorry. it looks like total mickey mouse club stuff. paul ryan i like him and all these people personally but you are supposed to be this big legislative genius. you are supposed to know your