know already a majority of americans want this bill stopped. we saw in the house, 17 democrats voted to repeal it. the more pressure that the american people put on congress, the more likely some of the democrats will break with president obama and harry reid and vote with the american people. we ve got to make it feel like in washington, americans want this thing stopped. we have to make a little noise in august to make sure folks in congress are listening. because they re a little hard of hearing. so you re starting off in arkansas. you re working your way to wilmington, delaware. we hope folks will go to heritage action.com/townhall. find out all the cities we re going to. it is not just there. we re working the whole country through folks who volunteer for
know already a majority of americans want this bill stopped. we saw in the house, 17 democrats voted to repeal it. the more pressure that the american people put on congress, the more likely some of the democrats will break with president obama and harry reid and vote with the american people. we ve got to make it feel like in washington, americans want this thing stopped. we have to make a little noise in august to make sure folks in congress are listening. because they re a little hard of hearing. so you re starting off in arkansas. you re working your way to wilmington, delaware. we hope folks will go to heritage action.com/townhall. find out all the cities we re going to. it is not just there. we re working the whole country through folks who volunteer for
senator, i guess my first question is, do you have reaction? have you seen any of the bill? do you know what s in it yet? no. i don t know what s in it but i ve seen the reporting and it confirms what we ve been saying all along. the house bill and the senate bill are essentially the same structurally. this thing cuts medicaid massively. it may phase out medicaid expansion a little more slowly. i m not sure if they think that gives them cover or not. what i does is something even more draconian. even more right bing used to be totally a third rail in american politics. which is, they re trying to cut medicaid overall as a program. they re trying block grant it which means, giving each state a certain amount of money, cap tating it and saying this is what you have regardless of how many people are on medicaid and how much money each state has. so this is extremely cruel. i m a little surprised in the fight between the so-called
medical irony a long time ago. i ve branched put into legislative irony. so i have the full gamut. i want to play this on the obama process. it was a year into it. take a listen. the white house has no interest in being transparent in this process because they have so much to hide about this bill. we probably have a day or two to look at the shell bill. a day or two to look at the phantom bill and no time see what s in the real reconciliation bill. my committee is completely bypassed this process. no respect for the oldest standing committee in the united states house of representatives. very difficult to do something with this much. that was after a year and there were, there have been committee hearings, amendments,