better on this than tammy duckworth. >> hello, everyone. i am senator from illinois. i have a pre-existing condition. have many of you have a pre-existing condition or love someone with a pre-existing condition? they want to take your health care away from you. they want to make your health care so expensive that you can't afford it. cap so youo put a can watch her loved ones die when you reach that limit. i've been watching day after floor inhey sat on the their wheelchairs for the people they love and said saved our lives. save our lives. our lives are worthy every single american is worthy. . y. single american is worth the all one unfortunate accident away from a pre-existing condition. we cannot be a country that says that if you are sick or ill, we will leave you behind. if you have a child who happens to be bond with a pre-existing condition, we will let that child die. no, that is not who we are. we are the greatest democracy in the face of the earth. we do not leave people behind. [cheers and pause] the disgusting thing is that, in that chamber, in that chamb

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caramela harris, tammy duckworth.color who got elected in the last cycle to the united states senate. i will tell you, the leaders, some of the leaders empreimpres me, mayors, pete budatich, south bend, indiana, eric garcetti in los angeles. other mayors out there. i'm excite add but the future of the democratic party. i am also very sober about the fact that we have got to up our game. we have got to communicate our values. every day in every way. >> let's talk about upping our game. known you for years. friend for a lot of years. you got elected. should tell you now that i pushed you higher on my prayer list. you going to need it for the job you have in front of you. let's talk about upping the game. so you're inside the dnc, we are, told, we read every day, that you asked for resignations basically for everybody inside the building so you could start with a clean slate. we are told again, what we read every day. fund-raising fund-raising has not gone well for you early on. i could go on and on for the narrative. an

another veteran, tammy duckworth, she said i didn't care if those americans risking their lives trying to save me were trangay, straight, transge or anything else, all that matters was that they saved me. >> this is what happens when a politician's back is against the wall and they see their support slipping to a danger zone, particularly among their base, and as i just said about republicans -- >> that's all he has. >> exactly, republicans, whether it's cory gardner of colorado, a purple state, or john mccain who tends to be nowadays more moderate on those issues. and there are those who may not be happy about how jeff sessions is being treated and saying he's got us on this particular issue. >> i lost this lever, so i'm going to go over here and pull this lever? >> yesterday he was in ohio with a campaign like speech, and the day before he gave a campaign like speech to a group of boy scouts. he's formed a campaign committee this early in his presidency. but whenever he's in trouble, you can count on him throwing something like this into the next to play to the base. >> he's raised a

. >> joining me now, senator tammy duckworth.e president said this morning that this was an issue of cost and readiness and distraction. do you think that's true? >> no. it's baloney. you want to talk about cost? studies have shown if 2016, the d.o.d. spent with $5.6 million on health care for transgendered service members. they spent $21 million on viagra alone. 84 until for erectile dysfunction, medication and treatment. if they want to cut costs, i don't think this is place to look. >> what about readiness? that it emanated from consultation with the folks at dod? >> my understanding is that this tweet caught the four service chiefs completely off guard. in fact, the dod has come out in the past and said they can certainly work this issue. we have had transgender americans serving with honor in the military. it did not affect unit readiness. and this is completely not the issue. this is an issue of the president appealing to his base. or a handful of people. my understanding is they reached out to him through steve bannon beca

joined by illinois senator tammy duckworth. thanks for joining me.hts on what's happening here and where it goes. >> that's my concern, the problem is i do think the bill will have enough republican votes to pass. the vice president is already here to cast the tie-breaking vote. my concern is what happens in conference. once it passes the senate, it goes back into the house and we lose control of it. there's nothing to say speaker ryan won't -- not go to conference and look at changes. lindsey graham called this bill of bad policy, a disaster, fraud even. >> bret: i asked senator thune, the republican from south dakota, that question. here's what he said. >> if you look at the statements they made more recently i think speaker ryan put out a written statement. he has had conversations with a number of our members. to provide the reassurances they need that this is a step in the process, the process will continue. we will have an opportunity to make the build stronger. >> bret: suggesting to have the pledge of the house speaker. >> right, but how long

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so i join senator dick durbin and tammy duckworth to introduce three pieces of legislation directly targeted to support at-risk youth and the amazing businesses that take a chance on them to change their lives. to date these bills have simply been referred to committee. mr. speaker, when is the agenda of this house going to turn to the actual issues devastating american families? this congress has voted to allow companies to poison our air and water. we passed a bill that stripped 23 million americans of their health insurance. we even passed a bill that lets dangerously mental ill people buy a firearm. shameful. we have not had one single debate, not pass one bill, nothing, zero, zilch, to save american lives. i guess some things just aren't worth the price. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter, for five minutes. r. carter: mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize colonel thomas kuncle who retired on july 10, 2017, as the wing commander of the 23rd wing at moody air force base near valdosta, georgia

earlier, i spoke with senator tammy duckworth, who was shot down in iraq and lost her legs and partial use of her right arm. senator, cnn is reporting tonight that the service chiefs who represent the four branches of the military were caught off guard by the president's twitter announcement. >> this is very, very typical of this president who blunders forward in areas where he has no expertise. i've said before, he is not fit to be commander in chief and his tweet shows that he has reinforced my opinion of him. >> when the white house says this was purely a military decision, having transgender people serve disrupts military readiness and unit cohesion, do you believe that? >> i do not believe that, anderson. we've had transgender people who have served in tens of thousands have served over the course of our military's history. i don't know why the president is doing this. if anything, what he's doing is disruptive to unit cohesion. >> is this about politics or just appealing to his base? >> i would think this is about appealing to his base, it's not about military readiness. and the

. >> who spent six years as a prisoner of war who is suffering from disabilities or take tammy duckworth, senator from illinois who lost both legs. they fought to say we're a democracy, i don't want to see the president or anyone else in any way diminish that by saying president putin, it's okay you can launch a sneak attack at the heart of our democracy and not pay a penalty for it. john mccain believes in the rule of law. he's my hero, he will always be my hero. i think the nation owed him a debt of gratitude. the institution is really the -- has to remain strong and cannot be politicized. everything today is being politicized in a way that's paralyzing us. other countries are looking at us saying you can't make a decision. the president shouldn't be dealing with these minor issues sending out tweets. he knows more than the generals according to what he said during the campaign. yet, by-passed the generals, sends out a tweet saying transgender people can't serve. he's doing those things while north korea is testing missiles. so we've got to get serious and disciplined. we have to have

. >> you met with senator tammy duckworth. what was that conversation like in?ely subpoena up lifting. she is in agreement with what we came here to do, and our goal now is to come across to the representatives that are not supporting us in the struggle, but it was definitely up lifting to see that she supports us. >> when you see those senators who are not supporting the idea of extending these sorts of coverages, what do you think is the issue? is it that they just don't know kids like lay la or they just don't have experience with people? because whether it's congenital heart defects or it's diabetes or it's heart disease or it's alzheimer's or it's cancer, all of the things that we've talked about on this show, we're all really really expensive to treat and if you don't have coverage, families will go bankrupt. >> exactly. i really hope that that's the case. i really hope that if they don't know anybody or they don't know children that have these conditions, because if they do, then it's really unbelievable that they would really suggest these cuts. it's a l

we heard tammy duckworth say she believes they do have the vote. she's not happy about it. we're live, we're going to watch the vote happen. how is this going to happen again? >> if this happens tonight, the end of the game that republicans have to repeal obamacare. assuming that does pass, there's going to be more toing and froing, and a lot of address work going on inside this conferen conference, assuming the conference happens, between key members of republican party in the house, key members of the republican party in the senate. and good luck finding a solution and finding compromise among those two factions. in a way they almost didn't do in the house and definitely didn't do in the senate. this is a shell. this is a shell to keep the process going, what they're doing in the senate. the answer to your question is, just because this is going now, doesn't mean that they're going to be able to figure it out. there are alternative ideas. there's people like lindsey graham and bill cassidy and others, with a different approach. not to use the platform of obamacare and fix

illinois democratic senator tammy duckworth a double amputee veteran of the iraq war is flaming presidentsgender americans serving in the military. she said in a statement when her helicopter was shot down, she did not care "if the americans risking their lives to save me were gay, straight, transgender or anything else. all that mattered was they did not leave me behind." an arizona republican, john mccain, his story of torture and survival as a prisoner of war in vietnam has come to define heroism, released a statement slamming the president, saying his tweets were unclear and "any american that meets current medical in readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving." obama administration interior secretary sally jewell says the review of two dozen national monuments by president trump is "highly problematic and out of step with american thinking." the order the review under the belief that the ex-president used

i want to go to senator tammy duckworth, she is a democratic senator from illinois. senator, i want to ask you what i asked senator merkeley tonight, how do you feel what happened? >> well, of course i'm glad we won this one. but i'll tell you it really was not about a republican win or a republican loss, this was really about the american people, all those who would lose health care. all day i talked to families with babies, and little babies with disabilities who said please save our lives, that is what this is about tonight. >> what do you propose gets done, if anything, about obamacare? do you think it needs any fixes and do you know what they should be? >> oh, most certainly it needs fixes. i have voted to repeal the medical device tax for one in the past. i also think we should look at the cost of prescription medication. this is something i struggled working on when i was in the house and worked on in the senate. we pay higher costs for prescription medications than anybody else in the world and those are some of the things we can do to bring down the costs in

pkgnats airport illinois senator tammy duckworth is working to make airports more accommodating for mothers to require mid-to-large size airports to have private nursing room in each terminal. duckworth: when i was nursing my daughter when i was traveling, i found it inordinately difficult to try and express breast milk. duckworth says many moms now resort to using a bathroom stall to feed their babies while traveling. duckworth: if you wouldn't expect your fellow travelers to eat a sandwich in a toilet stall, why would you expect a nursing mom to nurse or express breast milk in one?" mi senator gary peters is focused on airport security.after the stabbing in flint, michigan earlier this year... peters added amendments that would allow airports to use existing improvement funds to pay for security updates. peters: every time you buy an airplane ticket, there's a service charge on there. that goes to support infrastructure in airports, but unfortunately that money can't be used for security infrastructure. peters wants to see barriers that prevent vehicles from ramming into crowds, bulletpro

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