[inaudible conversations] the senate will come to order. D the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, we bless your holy name. Provide our lawmakers with the wisdom to obey you completely and receive your guidance. May your guiding presence inspire them so that they can find even in troubles opportunities for joy. Lord, remind them of the blessings that come from being challenged, as they learn from experience that the things that test them produce endurance. When their endurance is fully developed, give them the satisfaction of possessing such integrity that their faith will not shrink though pressed by many foes. Lord, help our senators to seek you repeatedly each day with their prayers, fully expecting you to answer their intercession and direct their lives. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the rep
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Every day. Mason and the call for a 2016 rerun. Hillary, please run again. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Among the nearly 13 Million People watching 60 minutes last night was President Trump, and what he saw has him taking a second look at his nominee for drug czar, pennsylvania congressman tom marino. In that report, former dea insiderturned whistle blower Joseph Rannazzisi accused drug distributors aided by congress and lobbyist, of fueling the oil open epidemic. Have a look. This map shows Drug Overdose deaths in 1999. And this 16 years later in 2015, when opioid deaths alone topped 33,000. Bill whitaker has more now from this joint investigation by 60 minutes and the washington post. This is an industry thats out of control, that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors offices that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. Reporter one example, pharmacy in kermit, West Virgin
I want to say we just spent quite a hit of time inside with the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, who has been a time. Of mine for a long long before my world of politics. Early into his world of politics, i think. Do we have been friends for a long time. Despite what we read, as far as i am concerned were closer than ever before. The relationship is very good. We are fighting for the same thing, lower taxes, big tax cuts. The biggest tax cuts in the history of our nation. We are fighting for tax reform. Were getting close to tax reform. It will come up in the early to mid part of next year. I think we only have the vote. Were confident we have the votes. We know with the plan is. I believe republicans and democrats are working together right now, working together to do an intermediate plan, a shortterm plan. Because obamacare is a disaster. The rates of gun up, that rims have gone up, the deductibles have gone through the roof. It is terrible. You look at the deductibles, unles