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look for lessons. from the kansas vote as a republican scramble to soften their messaging ahead of the midterms. and later, a popular female politician is quote, not ripe enough to be president. gas was notorious conservative tv personality said that. the right is taking the war on woman to a whole new level and you better believe it, i have some thoughts on that. all of that and more is coming up, so let s get started. we begin this morning on capitol hill. senate democrats are just hours away from starting the lengthy process of passing a signature package aimed at tackling climate change, expanding health care and capping drug prices. and bc, julia jester is on the hill with the details. julia, it s an understatement to say that this is not a long time in the making. can you walk us through what will happen today? saturday in d.c.? good morning katie, that would be an understatement. lawmakers have been working on this bill for over a year and there are a lot of co ....
On that part of the country. Im coming to you from steel city, so this is very important here. Ive always supported the Steel Industry and i support our steelworkers and our steelworkers can compete with anybody in the world, as long as the Playing Field is level but that Playing Field has been slanted. President trumps just trying to restore some balance to the Playing Field here and i want to help him. Im ready to go down there and be his wing man and help im implement that agenda. Julie molly is in moon township, pennsylvania where the president is about to speak minutes from now. Molly, i can tell the crowd is getting pretty excited. Reporter there are a lot of Great America great hats here, julie. This is the ....
And other countries are taking advantage of that. What do you think about the scope of our presence at some of these Rule Setting Meetings . What are your plans for the future . Senator, we need to be there. We need to be active. We need to be capable. We need to be value added. We need to come prepared to engage and work for americas interests in these multilateral discussions. I think you described wto in this article. Sounds like we share that sentiment. I couldnt tell you why we werent there. I dont know if it was an absence of people or the absence of focus. I view those as important to get the International Rule of law thats in accord with our view and not the chinese view in that particular instance. You have concerns and i will do my best to make sure were there and were capable. Appreciate it, that answer. I want to get a little bit of clarification with r ....
Saturday in d.c.? good morning katie, that would be an understatement. lawmakers have been working on this bill for over a year and there are a lot of components that have changed and shifted. the part of the bill is the same. take a look at what is in, it tax reform, climate investments, deficit rejection, drug price and reform and health, care subsidies. the bill has change in recent weeks due to opposition from kyrsten sinema, and negotiated some concessions from the majority leader, schumer. what is out an accelerated depreciation component of the corporate tax action. as well as the carried interest loophole that would ve raised 14 billion dollars to pay for the bill. however, will not add it was a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks which will raise 74 billion and she also got four billion upshot relief funding added to the bill. so with these additions and ....
I said, i don t understand, you re going to reduce taxes for people and you can t get votes? they say no, sir. i say how? i can t figure it out. then i found out, they don t call it tax cuts. they call it tax reform. well, tax reform might mean your taxes go way up. it could mean a lot of bad things. so i said here s what we ll do. we re going to call this plan the tax cut plan. tax cut. c-u-t. we re going to cut taxes. we re going to reform too. we re going to cut taxes. so i was i couldn t believe it. i looked and i studied like four or five attempts. they called me up, so what s the official name you d like on the bill? i want it to be called this is true, they didn t want to do ....