has there ever been a bank robbery as audacious and outrageous as this theft of the american treasury for the richest 1% of americans? here on the floor, we should be wrestling with how to create a foundation for every family in america to thrive, not considering a bill that wipes out health care, wipes out pell grants, does damage to every conceivable thing that would make this nation stronger in order to give the billionaires more zeros in their bank accounts. this bill is destructive. it's shameful. and it's contrary to the very principle of our constitution of government of, by, and for the people. this bill is government of, by, and for the 1%. it must not stand. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: thank you, mr. president. i'm really happy the senate is engaged in this debate on tax policy. it actually is long overdue. it's been 30 some odd years since this country's undertaken a massive reform of our tax code, and it's interesting to go back and think what life was like back in 1986. it was just a different planet, different world, different e

not the theft of the american treasury of the forc four to $5n for the richest americans. that is what is being proposed. has there ever been a train robbery as audaciousus as this fact of the national treasury for the richest americans to do. here on the floor we should be wrestling on how to create a foundation for every family in america to thrive not considering t the bill that wips out healthcare and telegrams, does damage to every conceivable thing to make the nation stronger in order to give the billionaires more zeros in their vacant -- bank accounts. it is more shameful and the principle of the constitution oa government of, by and for the peoplele >> the senator from florida since the country has undertaken a massive reform in the tax co code, to go back and think what life was like in 1986 just a different planet and a different world. this is an important debate so people can understand that are watching at home, the budget is not you and i am thinking of it as a plan on what you were going to spend money on end with the federal budget is as an outlining of the

the chance to grow an american economy 3%, were already at 3% right now without this tax bill having passed. if we can get about 3%, the amount of money that generates to the treasury is fantastic. it could be two and a half trillion new dollars to the government. americans get wealthier, everyone gets richer, and so does the american government and that's how you close that deficit gap. >> there were some lawmakers in kansas who said the same thing. that a big tax cut. dina sykes said proponents of the planned use dynamic scoring predicting incredible economic growth. today we know which forecasts were correct. they may have paid less than income taxes but the increases were offset by theists. so basically the changes were not enough to put the state on the right path. she goes on to say that the state functioned as of the great recession had never ended and that was a tax cut package. so you have to commence those folks at the growth it's going to make up for it. >> and i think i can do that because kansas is economy is not the american economy. it's heavily reliant on agricultural prices and so forth and they tried that, they cut those taxes as they went into a

americans obamacare relief . i directed the department of health and human services, the treasury and department of labor to take action to increase competition, increase choice and increase access to lower-priced, high quality healthcare options. and they will have so many options. this will cross the united states government virtually nothing and people will have great, great healthcare. and when i say people, i mean by the millions and millions. first, the aim to allow more small businesses to form partnerships divide competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. i'm also directing secretary constitute direct ways to expand these associations and healthcare plans across state lines. this will create tremendous competition and transformative, in so many ways, change aimed at ways of creating more and lower prices for millions of americans. the competition will be staggering. insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up. and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating. you will get s

attack working americans time after time after time in order to deliver the national treasury to the very richest americans. perhaps my colleagues in the end will be glad that they didn't succeed in that effort. so here it comes now to a tax plan that's on the floor, a tax plan being considered that will once again take a trillion and a half out of health care to deliver several industrial dollars to the richest 1% of americans. we see it time and time again. attack working americans to deliver incredible gifts from the national treasury. really, a raid on fort knox. has ever such an audacious theft been considered previously in u.s. history than the theft my colleagues are trying to perpetuate, both through the health care strategy and now through this tax strategy? but there is a bigger purpose at work here, and that is a goal to rewrite the vision of our constitution. our constitution has this incredibly powerful, meaningful vision of government of, by, and for the people. but my colleagues don't like that vision, and they decided the best way to change it is to put people onto the

could potentially allow american employers to form groups over state lines. it directs treasury, labor, hhs to expand access to the limited duration insurance program. that's a fairly narrow group that's covered by that and would also consider changes to health reimbursement arrangements to allow more flexibility for people to finance their healthcare needs. this executive order just begins a process because in the absence of comprehensive healthcare reform, which is what the president wanted, all he can do right now is tinker around the edges, which is really what this executive order is all about. a real piece of good news coming out of the white house this morning, kaitlyn coleman held captive by the haqqani network is free along with her three children and canadian-born husband. they were kidnapped in 2012 while hiking in the mountains of afghanistan. she was seven months pregnant. her three children were born in captivity. working with the government of pakistan the u.s. secured their freedom yesterday. the president alluded to their release in his tax reform speech in harr

americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury and the department of labor to take action to increase competition, increase choice and increase access to lower priced, high-quality health care options, and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing, and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people i mean by the millions and millions. first, we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations, to buy affordable and competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. i'm also directing secretary acosta to consider ways to expand these associations and these health care plans all across state lines. this will create tremendous competition and transformative in so many ways change aimed at creating more and lower prices for millions of americans. but the competition will be staggering. insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up, and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negot

the tax reform will look like, but we cannot argue about the benefit for american families of tax reform. clinton'sresident treasury secretary argued that the tax on corporate profit crease a burden without commensurate revenues for the government. changing it is as close to a free lunch for the american taxpayer as reformers will ever get. it looksgue about what like, but we cannot argue about what it is intended to do, and what leading experts believe it will do. chuck schumer and rob portman cosponsored a senate bill to reduce the top corporate tax rate, which is the highest of the 35 countries today. -- taxernational taxes system creates incentives to send jobs and stash profits overseas rather than creating jobs and economic growth here in the united states. we can fix that together, and we will fix that together. bill clinton in 2016 said he regretted raising the corporate tax rate to its current level for exactly those reasons. who is advantaged by trying to persuade the american people that something nefarious is going on here? who is advantaged by that? i don't know about my friends constituencies, but my

networks it develops to ploys and proliferates missiles that threaten american troops and their allies trump also authorized the treasury department to quote further station the entire islamic revolutionary guard corps for its support for terrorism and to apply i think since to its officials agents and affiliates and says the new strategy will also seek to address the pull of her asian of iran's missiles and weapons we will work with our allies to counter the regimes destabilizing activity and support for terrorist proxies in the region second we will place additional sanctions on the regime to block their financing of terror third we will address the regimes proliferation of missiles and weapons that threaten its neighbors global trade and freedom of navigation and finally we will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon the president added that in the event a solution is on able to be reached by working with congress and our allies the agreement can be cancelled by him at any time reporting any your turn to be chavez r.t. . world leaders are now reacting to president trump's speech today the leaders of germany fr

treasury targeting those entities. european, american, targeting with sanctions. the president said you have three months to do something about this. if you don't, we'll kill the deal. we can work with our allies and present iran a deal without them having a say. basically not having a wreath at the table and saying these are the negotiations. we want access to these sights. no ballistic missiles. charles: what about the spread of terror in the region? this is part of their core goal. it's hard to manage them giving that up. >> they are going to have to. the entirety of the deal was designated today. anybody with a proxy militia in their company, they have to purge them from their security forces. i'm talking about syria, iraq, beruit and yemen. there were a lot of entities that can be targeted. the revolutionary guard corps is bigger than decertification. this is the first time the government designated a country's military as a terrorist organization. charles: that was the headline. going after the iranian revolutionary guard, president trump took a firm stance

when i was a secret service agent, you couldn't work at treasury check investigation on information. >> harris: americanse scooped up in that. the point is, they were unmasked just to finish the chain there. >> kennedy: that's the problem with section seven oh two of the flies act as americans can be swept up if they use one keyword or one name and email transition, than all of their emails are now fair game. this is the second time the show we heard about something with the fbi. what i find is truly remarkable about this because if you look at the endless amount of coverage of the russia-trump a narrative has gotten, you look at the fact that there's an fbi probe, special counsel investigation and it turns out it is seemingly likely that hillary clinton and the democrats were probably tearing this entire thing from a dossier that paid russian officials basically for disinformation, and they've been lying to us and lying to reporters about it the entire time. this is truly remarkable to me. >> kennedy: and they also didn't fully disclose what the money was used for and by law, they have to do that. talki

that's what they need to do in order to sell this bill to the american people and sell it to the public treasuryven mnuchin will be joining cnbc tomorrow morning on "squawk box" at 7:45 a.m. perhaps we'll get more information on the tax plan then >> thank you, ylan mui in d.c. pete, i think it's connected the dots, if we give corporations breaks in taxes will that result in higher wages or will we see buybacks, dividend increases >> i don't know why we don't see a little bit of both dan is shaking his head over here i think we will see a little bit of both. i think we'll see the market fly higher but it's still not priced in >> final trades. back to you, pete. >> pete. >> sorry intel. goin' higher >> facebook, second best setup in f.a.n.g going higher >> there's no tax reform in 2017 >> big baseball game in cleveland. go yanks emerging markets breaking out at 46 after five years, eem >> i'm melissa lee thanks for watching. see you back tomorrow at 5:00 for more "fast money." don't go anywhere, "mad money" is jim cramer is up next . >>> my mission is simple, to make you money i'm here to level th

americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury and the department of labor to taken to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced, high quality health care options. david: president trump promising his new health care executive order will increase competition and decrease premiums. steve, you say he's on the right track. how ask going to work? >> what it's going to do is allow flexibility in the individual market. the individual market for health insurance has been decimated by obamacare. this allows short-term policies that are affordable that can give you coverage short-term, which obama did away with. having more national competition across state lines is a good thing. so he's taking steps to revive a market that needs to be revived if we're truly to have patient-controlled health care. david: by the way, e-mack, a lot of charge companies have been doing this, having clinics in their own companies, sisco, for example. let's look on the screen at some of the details of the health care, increased choices beyond obamacare plan, compet

having been at the dclg at one point, the difficulty of persuading the treasury to allow borrowing as an option. years ago, an americane government and gordon brown that he should be allowed to borrow money to invest in the london underground system. how difficult would it be for sajid javid to convince the government? you are absolutely right, and if you think back to 2010, investment in housing was slashed, and it has taken a while for it to get back up to anything like the levels it was out. what the philosophical objection in the treasury and other parts? there are many competing demands for resources , are many competing demands for resources, borrowing is a big issue for government, but this is the point about housing — when you borrow to build, you create an asset, something that ultimately might be sold on, like the proposals in the sunday times today. so it isn't just a in the sunday times today. so it isn'tjust a question of borrowing and you do not see it come back again. you can borrow and see a return later if the property is sold on. so yes, there is something there that involves more spending, but it is

republicans are eyeing an end of year tax reform hoping to give americans the biggest tax cut in our nation's history treasuryary steven mnuchin will join me live to tell me where that will stands in a moment. i was a good soldier. i had purpose and i loved it. you never told me you were a hero. i'm not. ♪ i'm only human you all right? ♪ i make mistakes no, i'm not all right. i 'm alive because of you. we're brothers. we look after each other. thank you for your service. rated r. >> maria: welcome back. we turn to tax reform treasury secretary steven mnuchin confident a bill will be done by senator but senator ted cruz is warning the process could leak into the new year for more let's bring in treasury secretary of the usa steven mnuchin. mr. secretary good to see you thanks for joining us. >> secretary: good to see you as well always great to be with you maria. >> maria: we were talking about iran a lot this morning with prime minister benjamin netanyahu so i'll get to that coming up. i'd like to get your take on things as well but let me start with the budget battle and of course, we've got an important wee

american taxpayer the tax reform ought to look like. what we can't argue as reformer get. president obama's treasury secretary, again, we can argue about what it looks like, what we can't argue about is what it's intended to do and what leading experts believe it will do. in 20 have a, democrat chuck schumer, republican rob portman, co-sponsored a senate bill to reduce the top corporate tax rate, which is the highest of the 35 countries in the oecd today. our international tax system, as i quote chuck schumer, our international tax system creates incentives to send jobs and stash profits overseas rather than creating jobs and economic growth here in the united states, end quote. we can fix that together and we will fix that together. . bill clinton said he regretted raising the corporate tax rate for exactly those reasons. who is advantaged by trying to persuade the american people that something is nefarious going on. i don't know about my friend's constituency, but my constituency want things to work together. my constituency looks us to roll up our sleeves and sort thins out. my constituency want

the major markets closing at record highs this week, but treasury secretary steve mnuchin is warning if congress can't cut taxes for all americanswe can all kiss this rally goodbye. is he right or wrong? hi, everybody i'm dagen mcdowell , this is bulls & bears. the bulls & bears this week, gary b. smith, joan as max ferri s, john layfield, and chuck rocha. welcome to everybody. gary b., if congress doesn't pass tax cuts, could that tank this market? >> gary: absolutely dagen. i'm surprised to hear mnuchin talk about the market almost like a threat but whether he meant it or not and whether he thinks that will get congress to pass tax cuts it's really immaterial. i don't think there's any resolution or legislation passed this year on tax cuts, so i look back and i'd say what is the market running on and it seems to me yes earnings are good and trump is doing a pretty good job cutting regulation but it seems to me honestly it's running on fumes. you know, people think dagen that the crash for example, in 87 was a one-day thing. it wasn't. it started back in august for crying outloud and that 22% drop we had on black monday was a p

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american people. liz: fraud is a very strong word are. >> let me explain. liz: okay. >> the treasury secretary was very clear that any tax plan would not benefit the rich. now if you make $730,000 a year or more, your aftertax increase next year, nim will increase by 8.5%. if you make under $850,000, your aftertax income will increase by 1%, that is a direct violation of what the treasury secretary said. additionally, this tax bill will add $4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next ten years, and will not impact in a positive way economic growth moving forward. liz: so you do not subscribe to the dynamic scoring of we believe that the tax cuts will pay for themselves, but i'll play devils advocate here and do this the same with the republican representative coming up in just a few minutes. that is simply, what we've been doing for more than 8 years has not really seemed to work it juice this economy to above 3% for an entire year. is it not time to put some money back into americans' wallets, and also corporate tax cuts, bring down the corporate rate and maybe don't leave the

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americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, and the department of labor totion to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced high quality health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing. and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people, i mean by the millions and millions. first we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations to buy affordable and competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. i'm also directing secretary acosta to consider ways to expand these associations and these health care plans all across state lines. this will create tremendous competition. and transformative in so many ways change aimed at creating more and lower prices for millions of americans. but the competition will be staggering. insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up. and you will hopefully be negotiating, negotiating, negotiat

americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, and the department of labor, toe action to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced, high quality health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing, and people will have great, great health care. and when i say people, i mean by the millions and millions. first we aim to allow more small businesses to form associations, to buy affordable and competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. i'm also directing secretary acosta to consider ways to expand these associations and these health care plans all across state lines. this will create tremendous competition and transformative, in so many ways, change, aimed at creating more and lower prices for millions of americans. but the competition will be staggering. insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, n

american government to mexico that were no longer have to happen. if i'm not mistaken, the main one was the one that bob reuben he was treasury secretary and unless my memory everyte faulty, we've got penny back with interest so that was hardly an expense. that was a favor to a friendly neighbor. >> but the point is that it's see.hat you it's what you don't see and what recurring ee are the downward pressures in the mexican economy isolated from the world. see a north american footprint that allowed them to the downturn. the worse recession since the second world war that allows all countries to trade to the global marketplace. i think that's a benefit whereas accumulated trade deficits. a very simple binary scoring fiscal relationships like it's a formula. disagree.ust agree to >> perfect. perfect. ladies and gentlemen, secretary extraordinarily generous with his time, so, applause. round of [applause] >> thank you james. thank you mr. secretary. that was terrific. ladies and gentlemen, if you seated, the ay secretary has an important time sensitive engagement and we're exit and llow him to then the cocktail party will resume. what a terrific day.

treasury. it's the congress and ultimately the american people.oe: you mentioned the diversity of backgrounds being important, people having representation, how important is it that the fed chair be on academic economist? have a phd? do you think it would be ok if the fed chair didn't have that background? >> i think the fed chair must have some a sick background in economics. it doesn't have to be a phd. we have had a very prominent and successful fed chair, one of the buildings was named after bill martin during the 50's and 60's, he was viewed as a successful fed chair. he was not a phd economist. by contrast, arthur burns in the 70's was a very distinguished phd economist from a top university, and he's generally viewed by the profession as having been a complete failure as fed chair. a phd is not a critical element. janet yellen has a phd in economics, but she has also shown herself to have a lot of common sense and ability to connect with people around people. normal working i think that communication ability is a key element of successful f

making life harder for the middle class while giving away the national treasury and increasing the deficit for the very richest americans? thus we should all be united in promoting and supporting this amendment. mr. enzi: further comments in favor? seeing none, i'll begin the two minutes of opposition. creation of such a point of order is outside the jurisdiction of the budget committee. it is therefore not appropriate for inclusion in the budget resolution. language that exceeds jurisdiction threatens the privilege of the resolution and is not in order. as the committee knows, the budget resolution provides broad outlines for congressional budgeting. and allows our committees the power to craft detailed legislation to carry out their goals. this resolution distribute resolution empowers the finance committee to move legislation that would significantly enhance our country's economic growth, create circumstances for a durable economy that supports the ability of americans to work, save and plan for the future, while keeping america's premier role as the leading economy of the world. this point of order would constrict t

treasury can garnish their social security benefits. in fact, between 2002 and 2015, the number of americans having social security disability and retirements garnished because of unpaid loans increased almost 500%, to 173,000. >> who do i go and get this money back from? >> reporter: it happened to 55-year-old manuel roberts of brooklyn, new york. he paid off most all of the $13,000 he borrowed to attend the university of southern california in the 1980s. but after losing a job, he defaulted on the last $3,000, and then sustained a severe head injury in 2002. >> then i was injured. street violence. i was a victim of a violent crime. i was in a coma for two weeks or so. >> reporter: roberts received social security disability checks for $1,300 every month. but the government began deducting $200 from every check for the defaulted loan. >> i was already in a bad situation. it's plain to see they just made it worse. >> reporter: the social security deductions pushed roberts to the verge of the federal poverty line. it turns out, there's a program for people disabled like roberts to get their loans eliminated. but many people don't know about

that's when american companies move their headquarters to a low tax country reducing their u.s. tax burden. the treasury department plans to keep it but says that future tax reform will likely make it obsolete. >>> spaeking of taxes overseas they're cracking down on amazon and apple for back taxes. order aring amazon to pay nearly $300 million. amazon denies -- at the same time eu is pushing ireland to collect apple's tax bill ordering them to pay $15 billion in unpaid taxes. "early start" continues right to you with the latest from the las vegas shooting investigation. >>> a house paid for in cash and extra measures for privacy. new details this morning about the las vegas gunman's years of seclusion. now theshooting has some republicans thinking of new gun laws, but would they have stopped this attack? >> and the secretary of state insisting he'll stay after reports he called the president a moron. now, one republican senator says its atillerton keeping the country from descending into chaos. >> good morning everyone. i'm dave briggs. >> i'm renee marsh in for christine romans. it's 5:00 a.m. in the e

americans with obamacare relief. it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury and the department of labor to taken to increase competition, increased choice and increase access to lower priced health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing and people will have great great health care. and when i say people i mean by the millions and millions. aim to allow more small businesses to form associations to buy a ford plant competitive health insurance. this would open up additional options for employers to purchase the health plans their workers want. i am also directing secretary ways too consider expand the associations and health care plans all across state lines. create tremendous and transformative in so many ways change aimed at creating more and lower prices for millions of americans. but the competition will be staggering. insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up. and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating. and you will get such low prices for such great care. it should

american people. david: the budget requires a deficit-neutral tax cut. our treasurys if the deficit goes up a little because of cuts it is worth it. we node growth now and we need tax cuts. where do you stand on that quickly? >> we put out a plan balances in 10 years, deficit neutral, allows for growth in the economy and i would say our plan should be considered as we go through the reconciliation process. david: congresswoman diane black. thanks for coming in. appreciate it. melissa: he said we pay for it with growth. david: that's right. if the deficit goes up a little in the meantime, look what democrats did over 10 years to the deficit. for them to complain -- melissa: i mean the growth, growth will pay for it. that is the focus. >>> puerto rico still struggling without power. many are losing hope of getting it back anytime soon. we have the latest from puerto rico coming up. >>> police are changing a very important detail in the time of the events leading up to the las vegas massacre. will this help investigators figure out why this happened? that's next. >> thi

treasury secretary talking about that issue. steve: it's gotten harder and harder. and under our plan, 95% of americans can fill out their taxes on a giant postcard. i mean, think about the beauty of that, in that what--the money it saves, the money it saves at the irs, and the simplicity of it. lauren: that's really attractive to people. do it on a postcard, make it easier. is it realistic? jamie: so, the postcard language was still kept in what we saw last week from, you know, kind of the republican leadership. but it was in quotations, meaning it's probably not actually a postcard, right? but simpler, yes, this plan will make things simpler by removing a lot of credits and deductions, and more standard filers using standard deduction, that is easier. so, this does simplify filing for a lot of individuals. lauren: all right, thanks so much, jamie, for your insight there. jamie hopkins from the american college of financial services, thank you so much. jamie: thank you again. lauren: well, next on "nbc10@issue," a program that provides low-cost internet service to low-income americans gets a big boost

american taxpayer the tax reform ought to look like. what we can't argue as reformer get. president obama's treasury secretary, again, we can argue about what it looks like, what we can't argue about is what it's intended to do and what leading experts believe it will do. in 20 have a, democrat chuck schumer, republican rob portman, co-sponsored a senate bill to reduce the top corporate tax rate, which is the highest of the 35 countries in the oecd today. our international tax system, as i quote chuck schumer, our international tax system creates incentives to send jobs and stash profits overseas rather than creating jobs and economic growth here in the united states, end quote. we can fix that together and we will fix that together. . bill clinton said he regretted raising the corporate tax rate for exactly those reasons. who is advantaged by trying to persuade the american people that something is nefarious going on. i don't know about my friend's constituency, but my constituency want things to work together. my constituency looks us to roll up our sleeves and sort thins out. my constituency want

american preparations. department will need to spend money before the relevant legislation has gone to the house. the treasury will write to departments to the public accounts committee expanding the process shortly. it will be spent. my constituent was transitioned from disability living allowance to personal independent payment in october 2016. he has the higher rate mobility and the standard rate for care. assessment give him zero points. he appealed that decision in 2017. six month later, he passed away without his appeal being heard. the appeal that took place two days later after his death awarded him higher rate for both elements, backdated to january. could i ask the prime minister what message she would like me to take back to his partner carol about the way this government treated him when he needed help compassion and support? the message i would like you to take back to his constituents partner is that we offer our condolences at the death of her partner. ensure thatng to there is a greater consistency in the judgments that are originally given on those he at the assessments. we introduced the ip

about everything that the president, treasury secretary mnuchin, gary cohn is said is not ins this plan. they hope that they can talk one way and then fool the american people. we are not going to let them. this plan is our best ammunition what they say and what they are doing are different. in the next few months, we're going to be talking about this every day. the american people are not going to like this plan when they learn of it. >> is there room for negotiation? senator schumer: first of all, our letter said three things. no tax breaks for the 1%. they violated that. second, don't increase the deficit. they violated that. and the third, let's do things in a bipartisan way. which i think every one of the democrats, 45-plus three all agree with. i think they realize just like with health care that what they are doing is so out of the mainstream, their wealthy contributors and donors love it. the hard right loves it. if they went into reconciliation, they would have to move the plan somewhat to the middle and help the middle class , because that is where democrats are. they would have to forsake their big contributors, koch brothers and everybody

american people from the nightmare of obamacare. >> in an executive order directing his lieutenants at treasury, labor, and hhs to allow small employers to band together and buy health insurance across state lines. the plan would also give more people access to short-term limited duration insurance that allow employers more flexibility with health reimbursement arrangements to pay for employees medical needs. democrats pointed out short-term plans are exempt from obamacare coverage protections. in a statement, senator chuck schumer saying "this order couldn't be further from the great health care of the president promised. it will send costs soaring for older americans and those with pre-existing conditions and add further chaos to the markets." it's been a busy news week so far. the biggest news will come in the lunch hour tomorrow. that's when president trump will outline his new iran policy has we have been reporting this week, the president is expected to not recertify the iran deal. that starts off a processing congress and the president will likely ask congress for a broad spectrum of tough, new measures to rein in iran's behavi

american people from the nightmare of obamacare. reporter: in an executive order directing his lieutenants at treasury, labor and hhs to allow small employers to band together and buy health insurance across state lines. plan would give people access to short-term limited duration insurance and allow employers more flexibility with health arrangements to pay for employees' medical needs. short-term plans are exempt from obamacare coverage protection. in a statement, senator chuck schumer saying it couldn't be further from the great health care the president promised. it would send costs soaring for older americans than those with preexisting conditions and add further chaos to the markets. it has been a busy news week so far. biggest news in the lunch hour tomorrow, that's when president trump will give a speech to outline his new iran policy. as we had been reporting this week, the president is expected to not recertify the iran deal and ask congress for a tough new series of measures to rein in iran's behavior. david? >> john roberts from the white house. more than 8,000 firefighters in northern california struggling to stop the spread of

record letters from the u.a.w., s.e.i.u., the national treasury -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: police union, american federation of narf ent employees, and record, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me say to my colleague from georgia, thank you for reminding us that you advice guys have been working on the budget for 10 months, but according to your own republican budget committee website, the budget was supposed to be presented and finished by april 15. so are you a little late. . i also want to remind the gentleman, i know he knows this, that the rule sets the agenda for the house. one of the things that the republicans want to bring up is their terrible budget. that's fine. you can do that. but the rule can also be an opportunity for us to bring up the bill that mr. thompson has authored. to set up this commission to deal with gun violence. we can do both. you can walk and you can chew gum at the same time. there is not a radical idea. this is our only way to be able to bring something to the floor because the leadership of this house has said

basically making life harder for the middle class will giving away the national treasury increasing the deficit for the richest americans we should all be united in promoting and supporting this amendment. >> comments in favor? seeing none i will begin the two minutes of opposition. creation of such a point of order is outside the jurisdiction of the budget committee. it's therefore not appropriate for inclusion in the budget resolution. language that exceeds jurisdiction threatens the privilege of the resolution and is not in order. the committee knows the budget resolution outlines congressional budgeting and allows her committees the power to craft detailed legislation to carry out their goals. this resolution, the resolution empowers the finance committee to move legislation that would significantly enhance our country's economic growth, create circumstances for a durable economy and supports the ability of americans to work, save and plan for the future while keeping america's premier role as a leading economy of the world. this point of order would restrict the ability of the finance committee to fully explore and