>> that way on down the road. first step is what will be doing next week, second second step is administrative changes that the secretary price will advocate and then later, will be in a different context of a 60 vote context that will require democratic cooperation. [inaudible] >> now remarks by senator chuck schumer speaking to reporters about the sweat of slate agenda in the senate. >> okay. good afternoon, everybody. i am proud to be joined by -- john you have to move back.

i don't blame him. i'm proud to be joined by my colleague, senator cantwell, brown and kane. i'm going to be a brief minute on the gore such hearings and then we'll talk about healthcare. now, as you all know judge gorsuch hearing is still going on. we'll have more to say on that later. i want to say one thing based on what i've seen so far. judge gorsuch looks like he's playing dodgeball with the senate judiciary committee. he is bent over backwards to avoid revealing anything, anything at all about his judicial philosophy. or the legal issues that concern the american people. there is no legally justifiable rationale for not answering the questions he was asked. he's hiding behind this. he simply wants to hide his

views from the american people. okay? now let's go to care. if the house and senate are successful in passing from care and it's looking less likely that they are right now, the american people will remember who crippled the healthcare system in this country. when premiums start to go up, they'll know president trump and the republicans did it. when healthcare insurance doesn't cover what it used to, they'll know president trump did it. when seniors are charged more they'll know prompted it. and when 24 million americans lose their insurance, they'll know it was because of trump care and the president. republicans are desperately trying to save this bill. but the changes they announced last night amount to a fresh

coat of paint on an old jalopy. the car still won't run. the bills still won't help the american people. seniors will be charged far more than they can afford for coverage. medicaid expansion to the states will be decimated. once again, the only people who are helped by what the house is proposing are the wealthy. they get their tax breaks a little bit sooner, now. the bottom line is this: despite the house tweaks, trump care will still cause the american people to pay morefor left ear. the house should not walk the plank. they should not ask senate republicans to walk this plank. they should drop repeal, once and for all. senator cantwell. >> thank you, the hausfeld represents a dangerous precedent in healthcare for the ninth is america. the affordable care act did not address the issue to cap medicaid and yet for the first time if the house successfully

passes this legislation, for the first time you will be putting medicaid under a formula that will reduce the amount of people covered in the united states of america and put 14 million people according to cbo at a loss of medicaid coverage. this is not a smart policy and will cost shift to the states to pick up for the money that the federal government is no longer covering. i wish i could get a famous rapper from seattle here, mr. mcavoy because this is a truly a heist. it is stealing from american people. there medicaid coverage and instead of hiding the repeal of an affordable care act nothing more than a budget mechanism to cut americans off of medicaid. >> it's reprehensible that a bunch of washington politicians,

all of whom have a government paid taxpayer subsidized health insurance, want to take a way health insurance from millions of working families in this country. i agree with ohio's republican governor, dante thick this plan is reckless and irresponsible. in my state, 200,000 people at this moment getting with affordable care act insurance are getting opioid addiction treatment. 200,000 people thousand people. most of them like this will lose their insurance if this republican washington passes. all of us in our offices are flooded with letters from constituents, stories about what they gain from the affordable care act and what they lose. let me briefly share one. a grandmother from dayton wrote to me about her grandchildren. her daughter died three years

ago, leaving her to care for her two grandchildren who both have a rare brain condition. because of their medicaid coverage, they they can get the surgery they need for federalized. this grandmother wrote: my daughter was told she would never walk or talk. she goes to school, she made the honor roll, she walks, she talks, she plays and is now doing karate. all of that is because of medicaid from the affordable care act. more people have died in my state from opioid overdose than any state in the country. 200,000 of them of them could lose their coverage with this vote in the house and what would happen in the senate. >> trump care continues to be a mess. it's one of the worst pieces of legislation that any of us have seen in a long time. the republican scramble to fix this legislation is unlike many fixes that we've ever seen, ph tax is still in their. it permits people to be charged up to five times what a young person can be charged.

this is not just an issue for senior citizens. you get subject to the aid tax after 255 years old, this will impact people between 50 and 65. in other words, people who are not young but not eligible for medicare. the approach the republicans are taking is why this is so unpopular. they decided this bill is unpopular because it didn't cut medicaid enough and because it cut taxes for the super wealthy, too little and in order to entice republicans to get more votes, they are making it worse. they are making the medicaid cuts more severe and accelerating the tax cuts. this is going to cause to support which is already cratering to accelerate, it's unpopularity. we urge the republicans in the house, as senator schumer said,

do not want display, slow down, slow down, have hearing, wait for a cbo score into reverse the taxes for people who do not need a tax cut. now, senator kane. >> one story and one problem. last wednesday there was a lobby day on the hill. we had so many of them and it was a lobby day for trump supporters. you might seen a lot of people in the pro trump advocating for the president in red hat on the hill. they fanned out to our offices. a bunch of were standing from my office and they were on my schedule but i walked by. would you like to come in and talk ? some of them waited around to talk to me. we had a civil conversation and we didn't agree on much but the one thing i said to them that they agreed with was this republican bill to repeal and replace the aca is an absolute disaster. they said the senator this is

one thing we agree with you on. we are so glad to hear you say that. please were people who were appear to support the president, who did support the president. they were here the same day as vice-president pence was on the hill arguing with the gop members to support this bill. they were saying it was a disaster. to those who didn't they feel that they weigh ? this is a poke in the eye of the orders. this is a two x four in their faces. they were against the bill and they should be because it violates promises the president may. one problem, this age tax. if you're a senior in virginia you're going to see this three to one ratio go to five to one. you will pay more in premiums. you will also see the assistance you get to see your premiums go down dramatically. the difference between the current level of subsidies and the tax credits is basically cutting in half the assistance you get. premiums up, assistance down and the estimates were if you are a 64 year old your average monthly

premium will increase by $3200. they're trying to figure out a way to say they're going to do something about it in the house without specifying what i putting it on the burden of the shoulders of the senate with no committee hearing, just on the floor. this is a dramatic tax on her seniors. it's unpopular with supporters and others for many reasons, but this is one of the very many once. >> thank you, my colleagues. were ready for your questions. [inaudible] by and large, yes. we are the first day and need some changes. we'd be happy if our republican colleagues said that repeal is dead and were not going to try to repeal it. if president trump, speaker ryan, would work with us to improve it. as is, it's a a heck of a lot better than from care. >> what is very when you senators on your side collecting

votes for the final judge for or such. [inaudible] >> let me just say this i don't think a single one of our senators has endorsed judge gorsuch. everyone's been careful to waiting for the hearing. there's a lot of -- i think you made a poor impression on many of our members in his refusal to answer questions because as i said, there's absolutely no legal basis other than hiding. the idea that you can't -- and by the way, judge gorsuch talked about a previous face, the steel case, he mentioned judge jackson but he won't talk about citizens united he won't talk about the earlier cases. what gives ? if you can talk about one previous case, you can talk about another.

[inaudible] >> no. we don't want to do some amendments and have them come back and try to repeal it. they have to compete at the bed and our caucus from bernie sanders to tell me if it is on that proposition. >> to believe the bill as written. >> obviously it'll have to go through a rigorous birdbath, as they call it. we'll see what happens. we don't know what the bill is so i can't definitively comment. they could have bird rule problems. part of the bill would be eradicated or they wouldn't get reconciliation. [inaudible] >> look, the bottom line is that i believe we need 60 votes. any member can ask for 60 votes.

it's gonna happen. [inaudible] [laughter] >> yeah, the knickerbocker kickback we call it. i think very bad. the knickerbocker kickback just rearranges the deck chairs on the titanic. in other words, it doesn't alleviate the problem seniors will have. it doesn't alleviate the problems that our rural hospitals will have. it doesn't alleviate the problems that those who have families in nursing homes would have. it doesn't change any of that. it just says county pay, no state pay, we want to help people not get into a intergovernmental fight. [inaudible] >> you'll have to ask them. mikey was very simple and that

is that there is a cloud now hanging over the head of the president and while that is happening to have a lifetime appointment made by the president seems very unseemly and there ought to be delayed. thank you, everybody. >> tonight on c-span two, house intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff. then, a health hearing on the billing with the opiate addiction crisis. after that, house speaker paul ryan on his meeting with the president on the healthcare bill. later, house democratic whip mr. hoyer on the healthcare replacement bill. >> c-span's washington journal, live every live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, indiana republican congressman

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