Building with a handgun, according to fox news he cally. Knowing that there are over 4,000 staffers and interns at risk here on thec house side o the capital and are and recalling the horrible Gabby Giffords strategy and the loss of zimmerman, i would ask that members refrain from making statements that could even possible approximately be misconstrued by the public as an invitation to do anything like that. Its obvious that representative lomas meant no such thing and i think it behooves all of us to be careful about the way we phrase things because there are people out there ready and able to misconstrue things. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Gentleman yields back and the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins. Thank you, mr. Chair, appreciate it. Here we go again. I told the story last time. I wish i could sit here and say what was not plausible then has gotten a little more plausible . It seems not to have gotten any more plausible. We still continue and
The president everybody, please have a seat. Thank you so much. Welcome to the white house. Six months ago today, a big part of the Affordable Care act kicked in as healthcare. Gov and state insurance marketplaces went live. And millions of americans finally had the same chance to buy quality, Affordable Health care and the peace of mind that comes with it as everybody else. Last night, the first openenrollment period under this law came to an end. And despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7. 1 million americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these marketplaces 7. 1. applause. the truth is, even more folks want to sign up. So anybody who so anybody who was stuck in line because of the huge surge in demand over the past few days can still go back and finish your enrollment 7. 1 million, thats on top of the more than 3 million young adults who have gained insurance under this law by staying on their familys plan. Thats on
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Pension committee be granted floor privileges for todays session. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Harkin mr. President , i want to take a time this morning to talk about an issue that has been brewing for a long time, is going to be coming to a head here in the senate sometime in the next several days, i hope, and its one which compels us, compels us to do something. And that is to raise the minimum wage in the United States of america. Mr. President , we have waited too long to do this, and so we have to act on it as soon as possible. So id just like to point out some of the data and some of the statistics confronting us right now. First of all, why should anyone be afraid of voting to raise the minimum wage . The American People are way ahead of us on this. You look at the polling data. To increase raising the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour, all voters, 73 democrats 90 , independents 71 , and even republicans 53 say we ought to be raising the minimum wage. So the vast ma
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