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disability in context with both the senate bill emerging and the house bill. on behalf of roan and those who have a loved one with a disability, i ask unanimous consent that no motion to proceed to calendar no. 120, h.r. 1628, the american health care act, be in order until the bill is jointly referred to the committee on finance and the committee on health, education, labor, and pensions. the presiding officer: is there objection? objection is heard. ms. klobuchar: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president, one of the things that i would most like to work on at the cost is the cost of prescription drugs and i think we should make sensible changes to the affordable care act. but the bill that came over from the house doesn t really do that at all. and whether it s bringing the costs down for seniors by having negotiations under medicare part d, whether it s allowing for less expensive drugs to come in by generic ....
story. these are millions of americans across the country, by the way, of all income levels. people think of medicaid as people who are financially not in a position to get care at any given moment. that s true. it does take care of the poor, but it also takes care of nursing home care for people who worked all their lives and just don t have enough. it s $9,000 a month in the state of hawaii for nursing home care. it s more than that for hospice care. we all know, nobody escapes end-off-life care. rich or poor, left or right, red, blue, purple, nobody escapes this part of your life. and everybody needs help. there might be a few people who save up enough cash money to be able to shell out $10,000 a month for that kind of care, but for the rest of us, medicaid is that lifeline. there are actually some republicans who don t want to cut medicaid. they have seen how the program improves people s lives. arkansas, kentucky, for example, they expanded medicaid. these states h ....
work they will do. may they seek in all their labors to please and glorify you as you fill them with your grace. may they not become weary in doing what is right, knowing that in due season they will reap if they faint not. lord, let your peace flood their hearts and help them to realize that it is by your permission that they will breathe their next breath. may they permit life s problems to make them more dependent on your guidance and strength. we pray in your holy name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: we ve been debating obamacare s fail use and failures and what to do about them for so many years now. we ve heard so many distress storie ....
whether or not they decide to sue me for doing my job. no, no, no. first of all, here s what i always say. do not boo, vote. [applause] doing does not help. voting helps. [applause] but think about this. they have announced that they are going to sue me for taking executive actions to help peop people. so you know, they are mad because i m doing my job. and by the way, i told them, i said i d be happy to do it with you. so they on the reason i m doing it on my own is because you don t do anything. but if you want, let s work together. [applause] now i mean everybody recognizes this as a political stunt but it s worse than that because every vote they are taking like that means a vote they are not taking to actually help you. when they have taken 50 votes to repeal the affordable care act, that was time that could have been spent working constructively to help you on some things. [applause] and by the way, you know who is paying for the suits that they are going to file? ....
i call this hearing of the green jobs and new economy subcommittee to order. just yesterday the president made a historic announcement moving forward with the proposal to tackle the single largest source of climate pollution in the united states coal fired power plants. this action could not have come too soon. what we re seeing already are real impacts of climate change, impacts that are being felt today, on the ground, it s no longer a conversation about hypothetical events or computer models, what might or might not happen in the future, it s a conversation about the real costs to our natural resources in our rural communities and our economy right now. a few weeks ago the national climate assessment came out with the most up-to-date review of climate sense and particularly focused on the impacts we are already seeing across the united states. this report combines the expertise of doze ....