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body. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: plop? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: i come to the floor tonight to raise concern about a proposed senate health care bill that might move through the united states senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without hearing, without attention to the details actually, almost in secret. i guess it would be secret if we didn t know exactly what was in the house bill. it would be even more secret. people have said it will be about 80% of what was in the house bill. i can agree with president trump. that was a mean bill. if it is just 80% mean, i can guarantee that you it s still going to be mean. i say that because i have been at home listening to my constituents. they do not appreciate one bit if you re harbor view hospital and you are going to cut $800 million out of their budget because of the cap on medicaid and you are going to leave a hospital without resources, they a ....
with him, a raucous rally in ohio last night. like the old days of the campaign. this was trump v. the republican establishment. the crowd was clearly on his side. meanwhile today, in the swamp, the senate votes on a straight obamacare repeal bill. the replacement plan went down to defeat. none of this appears to have any effect on investors. same old story. politics is a mess but stocks keep going up. profits are so strong that the dow is on track to hit yet another record high today. are we getting used to this? a chaotic presidency. a do-nothing congress, and wall street on a tear? that s the story of the morning, and varney & co. is about to begin. [cheers] he s a young one, he s going back home to mommy. boy, is he in trouble. he s in trouble. [laughter] he s in trouble. and i ll bet his mommy voted for us, right? [cheers] shall we call that an interesting incident last night as the president addressed a very big crowd of raucous supporters as we said it wa ....
intensifies his attacks on his attorney general jeff sessions. pres. trump: i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. amy: we will speak with joshua green about the latest news, plus his new book devil s bargain: steve bannon, donald trump, and the storming of the presidency. the book gives an insight into steve bannon and donald trump, who they can together to do, and really explains why things have gone off the rails in early months of the trump administration. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. senate republicans narrowly pushed through a procedural vote to open debate on plans to repeal and maybe replace the affordable care act tuesday, but then suffered a defeat only hours later when republicans failed to muster enough votes to pass their replacement bill. first on tuesday, the senate voted 50 to 50 to open the debate, with vice president ....
that are not exempt has contaminates plus, fake out hundreds of sea lions and a mechanical whale. the unusual problem and an even stranger attempt to a solution in oregon. you are right in characteristic it is called the office of personnel management at the government that some 4 million federal employees some of the most personal information is kept on their servers and tonight the administration is scrambling to assess the impact. the o.p. m. is responsible for among other things job assignments and training for sensitive posts within the u.s. government. they do have a statement out this morning that reads in part, as a result of the incident o. p.m. will sent notifications to approximately 4 million individuals whose p.i.i., and that stands for personal identifiable information has been compromised. additional p.i.i. exposures may come to light. to a credit protection agency for 4 million individuals potentially infected including a $1 million policy and tonight th ....
its job is to make sure that inmates don t come back. well first up the latest developments on the war in yemen, and saudi air defenses are reported to have shot down a missile fired into the kingdom. state tv said it was fired from houthi rebels from their stronghold. this was a few hours after three saudi soldiers and a border guard are said to have been killed in an attack by houthis in border areas. we have the details. reporter: this is what houthi allied tv describes as an outpost on the southern border. yemen government fighters say they took control of the area area in jazzan. dozens were killed. renegade soldiers allied to ali abdullah saleh and houthis were involved. there has been skirmishes on saudi arabia s 1500km border. saudi arabia said the air defense system shot down a scud mile, and they believe the target was an air base in the sworn city. the houthis - surprisingly we didn t expect a saudi invasion. but for the houthis to invade 60 to 70km ins ....