of drugs and families. it is an important issue, a complex issue. anyone who s ever watched social media knows that we could use more people asking us to be our best. well done for her. jillian? a hit for my home state of wyoming. university of wyoming came up with a slogan last year, the world needs more cowboys. you the usual pc voices coming forward saying cowboys is inherently a gender term that there is a history of racism, genocide or this is not including those but the board of trustees stood up unanimously and decided to keep it. we are starting to see numbers now. they ve got about 18,000 equipment leads on this.the public loves it. they even sold a coffin with the logo. the message of the administrators is clear. cowboy up! these extreme voices do not represent public opinion. bill? have a hit to the state of colorado for announcing it was dropping the second lawsuit against kate baker jack
and lowering the rate and people are stopping me in the grocery store and other places in the state telling me how good it will be for them personally. they are selling their neighbors on it and do the math. it will be good for you, too. harris: do you have companies in your state that will give bonus. i know you are seeing the uptick of companies that are able to give some back to our employees based on the huge tax cut. what are you seeing in wyoming. we are seeing additional hiring in the state and as a result of the regulatory relief that we have gotten under president trump and making it easier to create job and use resources that we have. so much much our state is energy related and with president trump talking about energy dominance on behalf. united states. and certainly good for the american economy and my home state of wyoming. harris: i remember house
there is a level of growth and optimism. dana, we are sure seeing it in wyoming. dana: i d love to hear that. he talked about energy dominance which is big thing for us in wyoming. he talked about trade, specifically beef, cattle, our number one cash crop. everything the president said today was music to the ears of the people of the rocky mountain west and my home state of wyoming. dana: i want to have you back to talk about trade. how much of a distraction is it when president trump is fighting with senator corker and he s punching back and you have the media basically asking mitch mcconnell four questions about corker and not one on the policy side? we don t need distractions. as senate republicans we are focused on the future and the families across the country. when somebody called this a photo op, i will tell you, dana, this is no photo op. this was a productive working meeting with the president of
time, that up to 15 million will lose. and a lot of it has to do with the mandate. the individual mandate, the employer mandate. what we will have and cbo has said we would have that, is the matter of whether this does work with the reconciliation laws of this country. we re not going to move forward until we are consistent with the law and we ll have that number next week. but what we re trying to do is lower the cost of care for the american people. we know and certainly in my home state of wyoming, there s down to one selling insurance. and over 40% of the counties are in them. this is no longer a marketplace, it s a monopoly i understand that, senator. we re trying to get prices down zplp we understand that. but you also understand there s a bipartisan effort right now between a republican and a democratic senator to fix these issues with the insurance market for the affordable care act. let s just take one state. that s the state of ohio, where the republican governor, john
president presumably likes. let s say it gets the 216 votes on the floor of the house. you know the u.s. senate. there are a bunch of moderate republicans who aren t necessarily going to go along with it. what happens in the senate? it would come to the senate. there would be an open amendment process. people would bring up anticipates to vote. i am committed as a physician to long-term solutions for health care of the american people. and it s not just good enough to me to repeal obamacare. there were reasons when i was practicing medicine i thought we needed to do health care reform. we have to get to a better system that was in place even before obamacare was passed. you have that commitment from all the members of the senate to provide health care that is much more affordable under obamacare, as you know, the costs have skyrocketed. the choices have gone down. in my home state of wyoming, there s only one insurance carrier selling on the exchanges. it s not a marketplace. it s a