burwell of the court saying, well, we're just not going to apply chevron in this case. okay, there you have it. it's not going to apply because they're not comfortable in a really significant case saying we're just going to defer to an executive branch's agency's interpretation. >> so you're a student of the separation of powers, and i would make a normative statement here and see if you agree. when the courts do not adequately police the executive agencies when they're interpreting statutes, it can corrupt congress and the executive. congress in the sense that it causes them to say we're going to write even vaguer statutes and punt to the executive which we can then blame if we don't like the rules they write, and the executive because the executive then says, all right, we have free rein to write the regulations we want as we want hem or as the president wants them. do you agree with that? >> i think it's hard to generalize about the effects on congress an owl of this because congress sr. on all of this because congress is 535 people, and there are different statutes

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that was the date that the decision came out on obamacare, burwell as king v. and that majority opinion written by the chief justices was this. it boiled down to this. congress passed a law in two different components. i call it obamacare. they called it the affordable care act. i said that george washington could not utter those words in referencing that legislation because it's not affordable, and george washington could not tell a lie but it was actually the patient protection and affordable care act. and that long lingo threw people off so they boiled it down to the affordable care act. we called it obamacare. it's far more honest. but that legislation, it was passed by two packages and by crook and that was one democratic on the floor that used the word legislative shenanigan in reference to the passage of obamacare and it was passed in that fashion and yet when it began implemented they wrote thousands of pages of regulations that could not have been imagined at the time that that bill passed the floor here. there was a massive amount of arm twisting this

on king versus burwell, and now they're hearing a case whether the president can suspend law and make up his own. it's appalling to me that a president of the united states would take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states, the be obligated to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and then simply ignore and it turn his back on it. if this court finds the president has tone force the law he'll find another excuse not. to that's the precarious state of our constitutional republic today. >> quickly, as a big ted cruz backer, we heard from a number of trump backers including the state chairman, if his guy doesn't win, donald trump doesn't win the nomination, he is urging trump backers to silts the election out. what do you think of that? >> i just wince when i hear this, neil. i've watched for the last two weeks or more as donald trump argued the nomination process itself is flawed, and that it's being gamed by insiders. and he has known what the rules are all along. 'll just take this to a fast forward on this. most hover the pundits think

i would back up to the king versus burwell decision and add this to those folks who are listening in and the staff from the supreme court, if you are studying a law like obamacare that comes before the supreme court and read the texan doesn't include our federal government and you believe that congress wanted the federal government to establish the exchanges or intended to write that into the law, you don't write it in and say that's what they meant, you have to remand it back to congress and tell us this is what the law says, therefore if the congress wants the law to say something different, we have to amend it here in the house and the senate and get a presidential signature. that is the government that we have, mr. speaker. and frustrating for me, to listen to the dialogue otherwise that the senate's not doing their job because they would hold a confirmation of a presidential appointment and we have a president that has proven he isn't going to protect our constitution, this is the time we must dwent our constitution and we must nominate and elect a president of the united states

i sent letters to secretary burwell, sent letters to obviously the president of the united states supporting his effort. but aye sent letters to our leader, nancy pelosi, who has been a champion on these issues of zika funding and i've sent letters, or a letter to speaker paul ryan. might i speak to the speaker and certainly ask that a half-baked, if i might say, contribution to fighting the zika virus is not going to work because any taking of moneys from other places is going to damage the funding of malaria, tuberculosis and the universal flu vaccine and yes it is going to undermine our needed and continued effort of fighting ebola. let me finish by simply saying this. along with the idea of the zika virus and other crisis, when we hear headlines like this, that indicate americans still don't see a vibrant labor market, then you know what else is needed under this budget? we need a budget to be able to fully fund retraining of americans. i've introduced legislation that would train middle age or middle management workers and others and give them a stipend while they're being retrained for

basis for diverting the funds at a february 2016 hearing before our subcommittee on health, secretary burwell provided no legal justification. the secretary emphasized that this program is temporary, implying the committee's concerns are unimportant because the program will be over in 2017. i disagree. i think this issue holds the utmost importance. cms acts to emexply phi a problem that goes yong this affordable care act program when the executive branch decides to reprioritize the budget and divert money intended to the money, it's a concern for congress. when cms owe ffficials decide t ignore a clear mandate from congress, it's an affront to the body. the administration cannot rewrite its own law to make it more convenient for special interests. this sets a dangerous precedent and is an affront to the separation of powers. this program funnels money to insurers with money intended for the treasury in attempt to prop up the affordable care act. what will happen when it runs out and there's no mechanism to under write high risk individuals? will more drop out? will premiums raise higher? the

, whether it is at the department of state and i have personally been in briefings with secretary burwell and republican colleagues. and the administration quite provide as tried to much information with the briefing, with justification, with language, with charts. it is all laid out. i'm going to make this aside which i made information. we have more information about this than we had about going to war in iraq and where we couldn't find a weapon of mass destruction and we spent $8 billion, which is unaccounted for today and that's not my number. it's the special inspector general who said that with regard to the reconstruction there. ut back to zika. yes, last week ranking member debbie self and wasserman schultz, where florida is a real problem with regard to the zika virus, we said ok. if the administration hasn't provided you with this information, let's do a hearing, let's bring the administration in, let's ask them point blank the issues that you want to -- you need to address. they said no. mr. rogers yesterday said we've had briefings and meetings, etc. say is a lack -- i want to

burwell case.he case deals with religious liberty and the affordable care act's contraceptive mandate. sxris nove zellic, founding member of the '90s band nirvana and author of "grunge and the government let's fix this democracy" will join us to discuss fair vote which advocates for a variety of electoral reforms. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. >>> friday a discussion on the challenges and benefits of integrating women into military combat units. a panel of military and foreign policy experts talks about the issue at the council on foreign relations starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >>> saturday april 23rd is the 400th anniversary of william shakespeare's death. and on that day the folger library here in washington, d.c., which has the largest collection of shakespeare documents and memorabilia in the world, will be hosting an event commemorating his life and his impact on our literature, our language, our politics and our

literally, week that sylvia burwell arrived at hhs she convened a meeting she directed us tos develop and evidence-based focused plan to deal with the opioid attempt. as you probably, many have seen the secretary in action, she wanted it quick. she's all about execution. and believe it or not, we got it to her quick. so there's three parts to it. first part focuses on dealing with opioid prescribing practices. and that involves a combination of doing things to improve clinical decision making, such as guidelines provider education but decision supports, like using our health information technologies and prescription drug monitoring programs so that we support doctors in making the best possible decisions. then we also want to make the data flow more easily and more freely so that in fact a doctor can see, a patient's entire treatment history and all of the places they're touching, the medical system, what's happening there so you don't get the situation that was recently pointed out where 70% of the people who recently overdosed from a prescription pain medications get a new prescript

burwell where the chief justice of the supreme court decided that he could write words into obamacare that didn't exist, that were not passed by this congress, not by any chamber of this congress, as a matter of fact. it weapt a phrase that was -- it wasn't a phrase that was conferenced out or something that was contested. it never was in the bill. the phrase that said, or federal government, and that's the component that had it been in obamacare, then the federal government could have gone into the states and established the exchanges and the states that refused to establish exchanges to comply with the suggestion that came from this congress -- by the way, that came from this congress, by hook, by crook, by legislative shenanigans, just to quote some democrats to push obamacare down the throats of the american people. but in any case, the law never said, never enabled the federal government to establish exchanges in the states, and the constitution doesn't allow that authority, in my opinion. there is no enumerated power for the federal government to create exchanges for insurance,

is in wetland areas and swampy areas in new hampshire, that this is a mosquito who, as secretary burwell has described it, can breed in as little as a capful of water, capful of water. they are mosquitoes who eat -- bite people four times in order to get a meal, so they spread very fast. and what we heard from the mosquito control folks who were at this meeting was that they are encouraging people to looking at places in their yards where water might collect in small spaces, in wheelbarrows, in paint cans, in places that we wouldn't normally think about mosquitoes growing. they also encourage people to think about protecting themselves, when you're going out, about covering up, wearing long sleeves, wearing slacks, wearing socks. when you're outside at a time when mosquitoes might be around. the other concerning thing about the zika mosquito is that it also is active during the day. it's not like most of the mosquitoes that we see in new hampshire which are active at night. this is a mosquito who is also active during the day. so we need to be taking action now. i listened to the head of

. >> we'll hear argument this morning in case 141418, zubik versus burwell and the consolidated cases. mr. clement? >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court. the little sisters of the poor and their co-petitioners face a dilemma that their religious freedom restoration act does not allow. and that the government deems necessary for them to provide contraception coverage through their health care plans. it tempts to recast them as an objection to the very active opting out. with all due respect, that's simply and demonstrably not true. >> could you explain to me the analogy with military objectors during the war, many of them felt that genuine belief they were pacificists. that if they registered as pacifists that others would have to serve. they were going to go to jail and many of them did go to jail because of this belief. why is going to jail less burdensome or less important than paying a financial penalty? >> i don't think it is, justice sotomayor. let me stick to the draft context. the way to analyze the conscientious objector case is to say because they face

just last week secretary burwell announced funding to health centers across the country to integrate treatment into particularly our health treatment centers. we know when we look particularly at overdose data, many parts of our country, rural parts, suburban parts, that don't have treatment programs need access to care. so we've been focusing on how do we get some of these grants into communities that don't have bricks and mortar treatment programs. and i would encourage all of you and will continue to do that to make sure that you're taking -- optimizing any and we're going to be having more grant calls coming out next week. so making sure that you're taking the opportunities for grants. just last month president obama and part of his fy-'17 budget announced $1.1 billion for fy-'17 proposed funding to support and to close the treatment gap that we have here. the vast majority of that money $920 million would support two-year cooperative agreements with states to support expanded treatment capacity. so despite, you know, our advances with the affordable care act and medicaid, we kno

we joined in having that hearing and we had secretary burwell of h.h.s., tony fauci of i.h., and dr. freedian c.d.c. they transferred some money. does the gentleman have any information has to when we might move forward both on back filling the money that's been taken from ebola and responding to the administration's request for funding for response to zika? i yield. mr. mccarthy: do i think the gentleman's work, bipartisan, on our challenge with zika, and as we continue to move forward with t i'm very happy to see the administration did take our advice last week and began using the unused ebola funding in oufer efforts -- in our efforts to combat zika. that money will go a long way to containing the disease, but i had met with the chairman of appropriations just today. the continuing to look and monitor. we believe this money will take us throughout the rest of this fiscal year. but we will look and monitor where we need and what we need to move forward. as the gentleman knows, zika every day we continue to learn more about it. we are committed on this side and i know on your side a