by almost it means lowering the cost of asthma medication for 25 million mericans with this condition from $1,500 to $270. testify inwe had one our press conference yesterday. his medication for asthma, in his case, was over $60,000 a month. 80% of it was covered by pay over but he had to $4,000 a month. absorb that, $4,000 a month for a drug that you're supposed to take four times a month? he was taking it twice a month, once a month, or not at all. a healthy thing to do. big eaping big profits for pharma. used h.r. 3, some commonly in insulins could cost as little as $400 a year. lower drug cost act, ow we put more money in the ockets of hardworking americans. when we lift the immense burden f drug cost on employers, the c.b.o. says american businesses can expect bigger paychecks and workers.for their .r. 3 also represents the most transformative expansion of inception.nce its now, many people on other side f the aisle did not support medicare at its inception. but this is the vast improvement because we are investing more that's f a trillion, with a t-r, half a trillion saving by a

debate about that in the forthcoming presidential election now they it from what i understand their merican policy views every china has long been based on the presumption of its eventually liberalization and implicitly on the submission to the american head gemini what do you think is more disturbing for the americans right now that the chinese are not going to remake themselves in their american image or is it that they are more assertive in openly defying the american oil. it's incorrect in my mind to suggest that american policymakers actually china would liberalize american academics might have but if you look at nixon and kissinger if you look at brant scowcroft if you look at the debate about china within governments over the years it's not been china's going to become a democracy in the american image it's being china has to be part of the system a responsible stakeholder to use the phrase that robert zoellick i think popularized so that's the idea of the debate now within the united states about china is that doable really and here i think there's a misunderstanding of how a great

it will be a great christmas for all of kansas and for all of the hardworking mericans across this great nation. with now just two weeks remaining, the house has so far entire first s session of the 116th congress. there's no excuse for holding a agreement up that's xpected to create 176,000, 176,000 jobs, deliver a $70 illion boost to our economy, and make us stronger in our trade negotiations with china. pelosi, i beg you, stop putting politics ahead of our producers. chance has a great chance to secure a victory for the american people. for our iver a win economy, pass the united states-mexcio-canada, and give america a great christmas present this year. r. speaker, this week is vet week in our office to celebrate our -- pet week in our office to celebrate our furry companions. this is an opportunity to ecognize that the pet food industry is simply huge for kansas. pet food manufacturers in the corridor lth stretching from manhattan, emporia, kansas, account for more than half, that's right, more than half of sales in the ry united states, and provides thousands of jobs to kansans. st

mcconnell doesn't hold a full and fair trial, the merican people will rightly ask, what are you, leader mcconnell, and what is president trump hiding? ready for questions. reporter: back until 1999 you didn't support new witnesses do you feel differently? these are my r: words. we heard from these witnesses over and over again. heard the same stories. the witnesses in 1999 had already been given -- had given grand jury testimony. we knew what they were to say. he four witnesses we called have not been heard from. and it's e difference a difference that's totally overwhelming. . reporter: you -- they say it's not the senate's job to get the witnesses, that was supposed to be done by the house democrats and the house democrats decided not to go to court and get the witnesses. should the democrats have pursued the witnesss? mr. schumer: i'm not going to second-guess the house. there's virtually no good argument if you're interested in the facts in having these witnesses not come forward now. the standard at a trial is different than when a prosecutor, in this case the house, put together a

about some of the actis take these concerns very valid the conservative heritage foundation agrees merican farmers are. joel griffiths says there could be long-term effects even after a trade war ends just because a result of the trade dispute does not mean that china. well necessarily come back to relying on our for farmers for for those in part, 's a warnng that even if diplomatic relations for cover american farmers. in washington, i'm joe khaleel. >>has a unique way of handling sick ys for employees, the company's ceo. now says that nurses can be sent to check and employees who call in sick just to see if there actually second, not just how over aaa ys that the policy is to make sure that all employees are healthy enough to food, not to check on any of their drinking habits or to see if they're in job interview or something like that. but if the nurse determines that an employee is actually sick to pull a then says it pays for the ay off the company's commitment to clean eating and making sure that people have a clean eang environs and comes years after a norovirus outbre of more than

promises coming any allen now if they american troops don't buy it but of course the brass has an excuse merican troops refusing propaganda shoveled down their throats for years actually get this the victims of russian machinations ha. there is an effort on the part of russia to flood the media with disinformation to sow doubt and confusion this is not only through discordant and inflammatory dialogue but through false narrative designed to elicit sympathetic views and here i thought in the re clinton calling half a countryman deplorable those was discordant or democrats calling republicans traitors was inflammatory i said this before and i'll say it again russia even if it wanted to could never have done a 100th of the damage and division done to america by its own media and politicians who refused to compromise refused to accept their own countryman's opinions and views but no matter what you say to these people they will squirm they will twist they will speak and always always turn it into someone else's fault just not there . more and more republicans have changed their views on russia becau

merican as you can be. let's stay in the u.s. for just a moment longer because a chemical plant in south east texas was hit by 2 major explosions on wednesday the blast happened in hours apart and caused extensive damage. on friday and evacuation order for more than $50000.00 residents was lifted as the fire had been contained but it is still active in some areas on that as smoke and the officials say it's hard to say when it will be funny extinguished but in the meantime we spoke to a local resident who told us about the extent of the damage to nearby homes. our house was actually really damaged all the garage doors pretty much all of the doors down the middle all the windows blew out some of the the roof you know. so we had a lot of it you hear about the explosions but it's half in there out there if or but not to this extent it's never affected around the refineries i definitely did not expect you know something like this to happen but i guess it is good to get the area of their finery which is owned by the t.p.c. group produc

xenophobe become merican lady we've all been there having chinese food on sundays but don't you hate how it's so unhealthy me raced for 20 years by asian metrics cooking healthy balanced meal 7 days a week now. talks about how chinese food is usually a doll's dinner on sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady what. a lucky liza started by a white woman ignorantly use an asian stereotypes to clean american chinese food and so led to the owner of the restaurant closing her business and apologizing. we have been listening and learning and we have been making changes and we will continue shame on us for not being smarter about cultural sensitivities my colleague neil harvey earlier discuss the issues raised with human rights campaigner peter tatchell journalist and political commentator charged with more. well if you gave it cultural procreation and that's what they seem to be mad about they're trying to say that she was using disparaging language if that's the best they have and she said chinese food makes you feel icky that's not a really strong argument and i don't believe it i don't thi

hasn't done that much that merican are not doing that as well. do you think there will ever be enough resources enough political will to invest in africa to such an extent as you're advocating you know it is it is a big question i mean we are living in a very unfair world mom percent of the world's population has as much welts accumulated as the other 1009 percent of those who are now is this going to change i'm not sure i have no idea if my personal idea about it but as an organization we are trying to defend just what we think is the right thing so that means in the 1st place make sure that people are not suffering according to political decisions that they are not suffering according to conflicts and but we can just prevent them from dying it's implicit now i know that you personally took part in rescue missions in the mediterranean a your house set up an organization that was dealing with it in a. social or personal capacity and the question i have for you do you think ordinary people can still make and that often impact when that governments

clearly -- not just behave yourself, but recognize that people are watching you because you are an merican. the handbook does go into some detail on different programs they were supposed to implement as well as the more bureaucratic parts of their job. for example, in the table of contents, the handbook covers things like citizen participation in government. women in public affairs. religious affairs, community councils. in addition, education, refugees, finance programs. on the more bureaucratic side, officers were good bureaucrats, too. they had required reports that they were required to submit concerning transportation, classified material, and so forth. >> that is what interesting to me. when the united states is involved in a formal war or military conflict, when the military leaves and the diplomats go in, think about the state on the ground. you were just at war with this country. it's a country you want to maintain a strong, bilateral relationship with, establish an economic relationship with. i think this would help hem. >> back in 2000, during secretary albright's tenure, this b

military has carried out air strikes in iraq and syria killing 25 people and injuring dozens merican officials called it a defensive operation against iran backed militant group. what we did was take a decisive response that makes clear what the president really has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for this long. to take action the put american men and women in jeopardy i would add that in our discussion today with the president we discussed with the other options that are available and i would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from iran. well according to the u.s. the bombing raids were retaliate for friday's rocket strike in kook base in iraq which killed one american contractor a group that has claimed responsibility for the last attack but the pentagon has blamed the type of a law and arms group that emerged after the u.s. invasion of iraq and has repasting targeted american forces and is also one of the main shia fo

is shut down after just 8 months some of the backlash over cultural appropriation xenophobe become merican lady we've all been there having chinese food on sundays but don't you hate how it's so unhealthy me raced for 20 years my asian metrics keeping healthy balanced meal 7 days a week now. talks about how chinese food is usually dollars dobro and sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady what a lucky liza started by a white woman ignorantly use an asian stereotypes to pitch a clean american chinese food promotional material by real hospitals lucky lisa restaurant repeated stereotypes about supposedly unhealthy chinese food claiming only its offerings don't leave you feeling blue t. and the establishment essence deleted the post. we have been listening and learning and we have been making changes and will continue shame on us for not being smarter about cultural sensitivities. the latest in a long line of cultural appropriation claims in the food industry a top chef and leading indian restaurant joined condemnation of the new vegan busy on the ramp by british supermarket marks and spencer not

understand gold we don't understand big point of course no big coin or no gold all right you know merican your quality of life is the same or better even though your wages haven't gone up because the products you're buying made in the factories in china are cheaper yes so they're like oh i'm in my trailer park shooting smack but i'm watching a 140 dollar flat screen t.v. manufactured in china so my quality of life is actually just as good as it was when i was making you know the cash back in the seventy's and had a great purchasing power and one member of the family was the breadwinner and people were educated and my kids were not shooting smack but they make this equivalency well of course i want to point out a chart that was very important in 2019 and this is again it's a chart that has followed the kaiser report since the beginning in 2009 gold broke out of a syringe and i finally hit 1500 again for the 1st time since i guess it's 2012 here's the chart going back to 2010 so right towards the beginning of kaiser report gold has soared up to close to over 800 or so in argentina let's men

stops pharmaceutical companies from overcharging mericans while charging other countries less for the same and creates a $2,000 out-of-pocket limit on prescription drug costs for beneficiaries. finally, it will reverse years f unfair price hikes above inflation across thousands of drugs in medicare, making lower by prices negotiated medicare available to americans with private insurance, not just beneficiaries. the lower drug cost now act is a the american american people. taxpayers over $450 billion during the next decade nd allows us to make long sought-ever investments into medicare and the national institutes of health. this bill includes legislation that i wrote to include coverage of hearing aids medicare, making them more affordable for our seniors. we'll also deliver vision and dental investments while investing huge sums into the cures.for new all the mothers and fathers who lay awake at night worried about nrolling their kids in after-school activities or making their mortgage or car from this ll benefit bill. we are fighting for them, and to a fight that we intend win. than

committed worthy of pietschmann just one explain to me absolutely abuse of power undermining the merican democracy by colluding with it's not a crime our theory ok can you put some of it can you can you put i'm sorry no wendy wendy can you put some flesh on those bones what do you mean by that what do you mean by that. and that's to and zachary why the democrats and anybody who understands american politics i really believe that i wrote to the people on the other side of the aisle because you don't have to meet to those bones that sell i'm sorry but can't you wendy can't you can't you can't she would mitt that that's simply just a talking point because it's really quite it's quite. vacuous let me go to zach in seattle here ok if you want meddling inside the american democracy as it were well then you kept ukraine you have that you have democratic national committee functionaries talking with ukrainian officials you have before the election you have the ambassador from the united from ukraine to the united states writing an op ed piece criticizing donald trump there's plenty of meddling b

iran that are operating inside iraq that the americans say are a threat to american citizens there merican officials both in the state department and the white house speaking on background on monday said that very recently they've counted as many as 11 separate rocket attacks coming from iranian backed armed forces inside iraq against iraqi military facilities where american contractors or american service members are working from putting american lives at risk the americans say that they have told the iraqi officials that they must stop these rocket attacks and americans say simply the president trump it showed a lot of patience in their words and it eventually the pentagon decided to do something about this and said that the americans were invited to iraq by the iraqis and that the americans said that they these attacks were meant to send a signal directly to iran. not to put american lives at risk in iraq that this certainly does call up into question the issues of iraqi sovereignty there are reports out of iraq that the u.s. officials informed their iraqi counterparts in advance of the

merican history this weekend, the impeachments of presidents richard nixon and bill clinton. >> as housedemocrats, along nancy pelosi, begin drafting articles of impeachment on president trump and ukraine, house judiciary committee meets for a hearing on evidence live monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern democratic and republican counsel presenting findings from the impeachment inquiry. online at on c-span, c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> next, financial experts on the impact of artificial intelligence on capitol hill markets. about the -- capital markets. we heard about cybersecurity the u.s. could remain competitive in a global sector. servicesouse financial subcommittee, this is an hour and a half.

corporate interests in that region reuters reporting that the 15 countries who are part of the interim merican treaty of reciprocal assistance or t.r. agreed on tuesday to ban $29.00 venezuelans including the oil producing countries president nicolas maduro and his close allies from traveling within their borders as part of diplomatic efforts to push him to step down t.r. by the way is an accord between these members of the organization of american states that promises a mutual defense among them but while there were bans being dropped on venezuelan political officials bans were being lifted in the name of baseball is writers also reporting that the u.s. treasury. and has created an exemption from its venezuela related sanctions allowing for transactions with the country's local baseball league this moved out paves the way for players under contract with us major league baseball teams or their minor league affiliates to participate in the venezuelan league known as the l b b p so baseball good socialism bad and all the bad as whalen's are trapped in between joining us now to discuss is a coord

merican have bases in europe but there are also 4 countries in europe that have host base arrangement us like call it call it a nuclear sharing arrangements germany the netherlands belgium italy and possibly turkey so those countries are the ones who sort of serve a soto nuclear strike role where their aircraft would be equipped and handed over nuclear weapons in times of war. until just a few years ago all political parties in the german one is talk had been calling for the nuclear weapons to be removed. these nato fighter jets are on patrol over the baltic states their mission is to intercept any russian military aircraft that approached nato air space without warning. a number of participants of the annual munich security conference are concerned about growing tensions between east and west. the conference chairman is professor wolfgang ischinger. in few yon's i'd him since the ukraine crisis that is since 20146 where we've seen a massive increase in but say incidents. and fortunately these of not lead to a real confrontation so far. for these incidents have taken place over the no

is bringing it to the merican market, these iconic brands. >> international -- has eached an agreementu.'snutrition division the u.s. company beat out inland's group to expand the fast growing food ingredients business. tell us about the price. would it have been cheaper if -- had not been trying to get into there as well? cheaper. ally the structure is what's interesting. we understand the carey looking at the same du cture, ended up with pont owning 55% and iff wning 45% and the cash payment of $7.3 billion. one off. up, potentially it drove the price a bit but at the had to do the deal. >> boeing is to halt of the 737 max next month. crisis.ens the it will complicate its future. how embarrassing is it that halt has had to production? >> well, they were facing a number of fairly unappetizing options. was, do we keep building this plane at a big cost but making money off of it. building a plane cost a lot of money. if you're not selling them cause as huge problem in terms of cash flow, or do we stop production right bleeding, as it were, but then see how and when we can get the plane

we are the greatest country in the wod because i will t sell out to anybody that the merican people. >>my job is to queion power. >>on everyone is my birthday today and i thk a list me coming home, he cominghome. well one more thing. >>and you can find a better car buy industry fighting battles on the today's box by the new luxury lounges at century san francisco center. >>spies in disguisestarring the voices of will smith and tom holland opened below expectatis, but managed to break into the top 5 with million its animated competition frozen to coinued its box office run in 4th place on ticket sales of 16.5 million. campbecause. we will tell. the scorched dress the latest adaptation of little women placed 3rdjust barely ahead of ozen 2 wi 16.5 $2 million jumanji t next level held on second ace this weekend bringing in an additional llion to its box office haul. star war the rise of skywalker easily surpassed itcompetition over the holidays repeating in first place withan estimated $72 milln the 9th and final film in the skywalker saga now commands a mlion domestic oss and over milli

according to c.r.s., the average merican worker got an added bonus of $28. did they invest in new jobs? noh no. so where did the mungo? i'll tell you where most of it went. the tax cut helped corporations buy back over $1 trillion of their own shares on wall street. which gave us a temporary sugar high on wall street. we may as well have bushed that money on the national mall. for, for this, the republican tax bill took from middle class families money they needed to buy their first home, to send their kids to college, to stay in their home when they retire, for this, because capping salt wasn't nearly enough to pay for that bill, the bill blew a $2 trillion hole in the national debt. just as everyone on our side predicted because we used something called math. madam speaker, let's restore the salt deduction, vote for this bill, i yield two minute those gentlelady from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman cannot yield blocks of ime. mr. malinowski: i yield to the gentlelady from california. >> when congress enacted the first income tax in 1861

somehow destroy democracy and i think they both sincerely seeing a at, fundamental threat to the merican way of life if the other side gets its way. questions? t's just a summary of a pretty debate.nging >> how are americans hearing this? exposed to this? the answer is the radio. one of the things that made this taking ifferent is it's place for the first time, really, in american history, a carry out dium to this debate. out, e time the war broke there are four national radio networks, nbc red, which is its network, carried most of their popular entertainment tendeds, nbc blue, which more toward news and opinions. mutual network. and i think this point is incredibly important. 1940, more than half of the american people got their from the radio primarily. ewspapers have already been displaced by radio. they are getting their news and opinions.lso getting speakers are going on the radio. to the american people, directly. this had never happened before. debates, of n course, in american foreign policy, but they were mostly newspapers and among elites. this is available to virtually in ame

i think an unusual number have declared not qualified by the national rating agency, the merican bar association, so that should be very concerning. that will not be the case in a administration. we'll have top quality, serious jurists, experienced jurists, you know, of, continuing integrity in our federal judiciary. least that a the president can do. > any concern about not being able to be part of the debates? i know that field has already been getting smaller and smaller anyway's, but not being able to go against the competition. >> well, listen, i'm against the competition anyway. the debate is not that marker for me. the debate stage in the fullness of time but that's not the end game. game is winning. >> thank you. take care. give back all of electronics. >> the house will be in order. crr span has been providing america unfiltered coverage. so you can pake up your own mind. created by cable if 1979 c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. under the obama administration and former iowa.atic governor of > ladies and gentlemen, please bidene vice presid

artifacts,merican delivering history enthusiast reenacts george washington's crossing of the delaware river. , professors talk about impeachment. >> one of the things that really strengthened the case against nixon was the fact that it was bipartisan. there were many republicans who studied the evidence, looked at the reports, listens to the tapes when they were finally released, looked at the transcripts released in advance and came to the conclusion that nixon had done something wrong. onexplore our nation's past c-span3. >> president trump held a vehicle with service members overseas. afterwards, he took a few questions from reporters on various topics including north korea's

there has never been a better time to be young and to be merican.future and the future of our nation is unlimited. we've created more than seven million jobs since the election including 266,000 new jobs last month alone. for everyone graduating into the work force this year, there are now more job openings than job seekers for the first time in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] young people like you have seen their wages rise by more than 10% since the election, a number that has not been surpassed. median household incomes are the highest in the history of our country. real household take-home pay gains will reach up to $10,000 a year. never happened. under president obama, it was 975 for eight years. median income. under president bush it was 450. eight years, eight years. 450, $975. three years, really less, 2 1/2 years when the numbers came out, under president trump, per family, more than $10,000. that's why the economy is so good. unemployment among younger americans has reached a 63-year low. and i just want to tell you, look

it will also require the merican firms to do diligence on how and where technology is becomesed so they do not part of the chinese government's campaign to violate rights of own citizens. this legislation is -- this legislation is a necessary most se to one of the pressing human rights concerns in the world today. i am glad the house is it, and i encourage all members to vote for passage. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield consume to he may the distinguished gentleman from texas, the ranking member, mr. mccaul. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in strong support of this bipartisan uighur act. i want to commend my colleagues, all three of you from new -- i think it's a new jersey day on the floor, but mr. sires, you, sir, mr. mull mullinous key, the communist government of china believed - it's between one million to three million ethnic minorities have een detained and sent to internment camps w

joe biden to be our next president i want somebody that come from the middle class from the working mericans what it is to try to ma it in america as a family working in a factory on a construction ob in an office. >>there are manshows biden over us senator kamala harris and billionaire tom stier who both have ties to california and the bay area. another key player incalifornia politics senator dianne feinstein previously endorsediden for president. >>in washington, a red ibbon can be seen hanging from the north portico of the white hoe to commemorate world aids day. >>over 1 million people in the us and 38 million people worldwide are living with h v hiv aids. president trump issued a proclamation to mark the solemn occasion during which he taed about his initiative called ending the hiv epidemic, a plan for america, the president's goal is to eliminate at least 90% of new hiv infections. in the us witn 10 years. the plan to do so by fosing on diagnosis treatment prevention and response. talked about it just a few minutes ago, there are big me delays at sfo this morning. no real surprise g

, the united mexican states, and canada attached as an annex to the protocol replacing the north .merican free trade agreement the speaker pro tempore: the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the bill is passed. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the will rise.ys a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house for a period of less than 15 minutes.

it turns out those folks that were willing to write those brothers and sisters, those mericans off were wrong. that population and i hate this term but we use it, those lower car tiles of economics, education, skill actually cares about these things, last year, a single woman, no partner in the house, 7.6% growth in wages. these are numbers i can tell you from being on the joint economic committee for ages. every economist would have said we're out of our minds looking at numbers like that twhrest joy? the fact soft the matter is there's been more progress in the last 24 months, our brothers and sisters who have physical issues. have had substance abuse issues, criminal records. these sorts of things coming back into the labor force. u-6 's this thing called data, u-4 day tark you see the unemployment rate, the workers, marginally attached, haven't been look, quit looking. and the number of those who are moving into the labor force that we barely give any credit for when we see the top line number because the top line number is those who are looking, there is an economic miracle happeni