Socalled Affordable Care act has been collapsing under its own weight, democrats in the senate have been cherrypicking what few positive data points they can find and telling the American People that everything is fine. And that obamacare is working. Give me a break. Yet by no honest or reasonable measure is obamacare living up to the promises that were made at the time it was passed. And, as a result, the American People are saddled with a Health Care System that has been poorly designed and recklessly implemented. Sure it has made for partisan political theater for my colleagues to express shock and dismay at the current state of the health care debate. Im quite certain that the strategy has poll tested very well among the Democratic Base and the Senate Minority leader clearly has an elaborate Media Campaign in mind. But before they dig in berating republicans, i hope my democratic colleagues were able to come up with something to tell their constituents whose Health Care Costs have
Socalled Affordable Care act has been collapsing under its own weight, democrats in the senate have been cherrypicking what few positive data points they can find and telling the American People that everything is fine. And that obamacare is working. Give me a break. Yet by no honest or reasonable measure is obamacare living up to the promises that were made at the time it was passed. And, as a result, the American People are saddled with a Health Care System that has been poorly designed and recklessly implemented. Sure it has made for partisan political theater for my colleagues to express shock and dismay at the current state of the health care debate. Im quite certain that the strategy has poll tested very well among the Democratic Base and the Senate Minority leader clearly has an elaborate Media Campaign in mind. But before they dig in berating republicans, i hope my democratic colleagues were able to come up with something to tell their constituents whose Health Care Costs have
Republicans are we need to tell you headed to at the top of the hour, the white house to meet with President Trump. President trump putting out an and i guess he could call it a lastminute or emergency invitation to all Senate Democrats, republicans, rather. Saying come on up to the white house. We need to get this going. We need to figure out how to get all parties together. When i say all parties, i mean, all democrats who are in different faxes to get them to a point where they will have the vote. Come back to me, and we can keep up the democrats for a moment. What we do want to say is they still do not have the votes right now for that senate bill to then move forward. The process to move forward. Let me just explain that as you might have heard or not, new york senator Chuck Schumer referring to the gop senate bill as trumpcare, you know, just as the republicans kept referring to the acas obamacare making sure that that president would own it. They slammed the bill, and schumer sa
5. 3 . These are the questions dominating the discourse all day. I would put it in perspective, empirically, anecdotally and emotionally. Were in an unusual backdrop. Because the demand for u. S. F z treasuries from overseas, our Interest Rates in this country are much lower than they should be hallelujah unless youre a saver. Youd expect rates to rise. Thats normally what would happen. Treasury yield should be higher, which would drive other rates higher in, again, another normal situation. But were far from normal [ buzz ] Central Banks around the world are debasing their currencies. One third of all government bonds around the world now have negative yields at the moment, meaning if you buy these bonds youll actually lose money. Not here, though. So of course theres a scarcity of u. S. Bonds. Creating lower Interest Rates for all. Foreigners are thrilled to buy our bonds because you can make some money owning them, however meager. We have even more worldwide economic turmoil if they
Mr. Thornberry mr. Speaker, i want to start by thanking the 63 members of the Armed Services committee, not only for all of their work in putting this bill together but for the seriousness with which they take our duties under the constitution to help provide for the common defense. Our members dont always agree, but were able to work our way through our differences most of the time and think about the larger cause. You might say we sacrifice some of our individual differences or preferences in order to support the men and women who sacrifice so much for us. And i want to thank all the members of the house. Weve had a lot of members over the last two days who have come down to the floor and talked about their amendments. Who have and all of those amendments have helped make this bill a better bill. And thats the way that for 54 straight years congresses of majorities of both parties and president s of both parties have defense bill, a last year was a little iffy but its happened. There