cassidy. sen. cassidy: thank you, mr. chairman. power ofgive the price, it makes a huge difference in terms of health and our pocketboo. i agree with each of you so much really, i cannot challenge you. i almost have to ask you to amplify where we are going together. [laughter] sen. cassidy: i also point out you have a bipartisan support. we have been working with senators bennett, young, grassley, carpenter, mccaskill, and i will refer to something senator smith and others are working on in regards to administrative overhead -- i could go on. speak first, though, about surprise medical billing. this is something i am concerned about. the darker the color, the more likely somebody is going to an in-network facility with an out-of-network provider, and they think they are doing the right thing, because they go to the facility that is in network, but the er group, for example, -- whichesthesiologist you mentioned specifically the anesthesiologist is looped in -- the anesthesiologist is not in. so as much as 25% of inpatient bills, i t

cassidy: . the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: mr. president, i rise to speak about i'll miss his maverick spirit. judge kavanaugh's nomination to be justice kavanaugh on the supreme court. let me begin, mr. president, by saying the senate has been hard at work vetting and confirming good judges to the bench. so far the senate has confirmed 60 of president trump's judicial nominees, an historic pace that includes 36 circuit judges, 33 district court judges and kneel gorsuch to the supreme court. this week we'll confirm even more as the confirmation process continues for president trump's second nominee, judge brett kavanaugh. in the last week or two the democratic minority has been very cooperative with this, appointing good conservative republicans to the district and circuit courts. but let me continue about judge kavanaugh, first let's just say that he is well regarded by his peers. he's a mainstream independent jurist well regarded across the political spectrum. look at his professional career to see why. his record at the supreme

cassidy: . the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: mr. president, i rise to speak about i'll miss his maverick spirit. judge kavanaugh's nomination to be justice kavanaugh on the supreme court. let me begin, mr. president, by saying the senate has been hard at work vetting and confirming good judges to the bench. so far the senate has confirmed 60 of president trump's judicial nominees, an historic pace that includes 36 circuit judges, 33 district court judges and kneel

bill cassidy of louisiana. tomorrow, live special coverage of the hearings on capitol hill anchored by bret baier, martha maccallum right here on the fox news channel. stay close to "outnumbered overtime" ." >> harris: we have been covering for about the last hour or so breaking news that there is a third accuser against the nomination process for supreme court justice judge brett kavanaugh and in this woman's statement she says she is someone who had met kavanaugh and another friend of his and witnessed him doing acts of sexual misconduct. we also heard from the white house white house, putting out a statement directly from the judge of calling the twilight zone, he says he does not know who this third accuser is. let's get some legal advice on all of this. thank you for joining us. this is a lot of information to take in, and this is the most specific we've seen any of the accusers who have come forth. he calls it ridiculous. where does this play in? it's not a court of law, what do you make of it? >> there m

i'm going to now go to senator cassidy to chair.and i will ask senator scott if he will let them go ahead with the question or send her cane? are you ready, senator scott to ask your questions? >> i am ready. >> okay we go to senator scott. he is already ready. >> thank you for being here and i truly appreciate your investing your time and looking at ways for us to help the average consumer have a better experience and hopefully a better price point in healthcare. 2016 the u.s. spent about $3.3 trillion on healthcare. $3.3 trillion in healthcare. about 28 percent of that came out of households. you think about it, on the prospective $930 billion paid by households. the u.s. is expected to spend about $5.7 trillion on health care by 2026. the current ratio holds true at 20 percent would represent about $1.6 trillion for the average american household. >> i hope i'm pronouncing your name right, mr. kampine, is accurate? >> yes. >> estimate 1.5 trillion of the current healthcare spending is paid for by either employers or directly by c

so they switched the title. >> we have to play, you know, the iconic clip from "butch cassidy and the sundance kid." >> all right. i'll jump first. you jump first. what's the matter with you? >> i can't swim. [ laughter ] why, you crazy, the fall would probably kill you. oh! >> that gave you a whole new exposure. that is what launched you into the career that you now apparently retiring from. are you really retiring. >> i should never have said anything like that. just moving into a different territory. i've acted long enough. but i didn't want to make a big deal out of it because i thought that distracted from the value of the film and the cast. >> is this the last film you plan to do as an actor? >> maybe. >> i'm going to play you a clip of when i asked you the same thing in an interview we did in paris in 2015 and you were already talking about potentially moving back from being an act or. a . >> i think probably, as i really look back on it, i don't really mean it. i think the idea seemed good. but when you get right down to it, that's not who i am. the idea is when you are born,

here's cassidy. >> thanks, steve. back to happy valley.r trace mcsorley tied things up at 38, channer will stanton going for a 56-yard game-winning field go, no good. that game is heading to overtime. and coming up at 8:00 eastern on abc, nick saban and number one alabama in orlando taking on louisville. 8:00 eastern, geagain, here on abc. back to you. >> steve: cassidy, thank you. >> brian: what a hard-fought game this one. and two quarterbacks that braved it out, gutted it out. jake browning was under duress most of the game. unbelievable throws. but really it came down to the two defenses. and auburn just had a little bit more in the tank. >> steve: especially in the red zone. opportunities that will lament both schools as they look at film this week. final 30 seconds of this one. and the pac-12 will say, hey, don't forget about us. we came. put up a fight. represented themselves well. >> brian: yeah. and if washington, which it looks like they have the squad, you know, to compete in the pac 1 they're going to have to run the table, in

. >> thank you, senator cassidy?ank you, gentleman i've got a bunch of questions, so if i hausle you are wrong -- if i hausle you a long, it's not to be rude. on my website i have a making healthcare preferable again, one of the things we address is administered of costs. now, cognitive dissonance, dr. cutler, you mentioned how kind of ascribing to the government the role of making things less administratively burdensome, and i'm thinking, i must be dropping acid, not that i have ever dropped acid but for the record i have not -- but one of the briefings we were giving, the american -- 629 different regulatory requirements from four mr. iles could give me the same thing for insurance. having practiced medicine is incredible, how much the federal government loads upon us. and i almost -- my jaw drops when you said most providers are pleased about the electronic health records. actually i read the leading cause for burnout for physicians is electronic health record. i'm not sure who is finding it so -- who is so enamor

cassidy: i come to speak as a senator who is also a physician. in my medical practice i learned, if the patient has the power, the patient can make the wisest decisions for their health an pocketbook. i'm here to support the patients right to know drug crisis act put together by senators collins and mccaskill of which i'm privileged to cosponsor. let me just say right now our health care system is designed just if you will to shake as much money out of the patient and taxpayer, all to the benefit of the others, but not to the patient and not to the taxpayer. and one of the most egregious examples are the pharmacy gag clause. in a pharmacy gag clause, if you go to the pharmacy and it would be cheaper for you to pay cash for the drug as opposed to your insurance deductible, the pharmacist may be restricted by a contract from telling you that. if the pharmacist does tell you that, the pharmacist loses the contract with the pharmacist benefit package. you pay more by paying with your deductible than by paying cash. that money is taken away from you a

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but senator cassidy does raise a good point.vacy of dr. ford, maintain the privacy of judge kavanaugh on the matter and allow this stuff to be brought to the senate in a confidential matter. instead, it was blown out into the open through a leak. and yes, senator feinstein even at the hearing the other day, could not answer whether she had asked her staff whether they leaked this information. she didn't! >> and i think she is the villain in this because frankly, doctor ford was re-victimized by having to do -- courts all the time, try not to do this to women. and somebody did this on purpose for political purposes. >> should we find out who this is? >> i think we should try to find out. they should look into the matter and try to find out who leaked the information. because you do not want to set a precedent where someone does not feel comfortable coming to the committee with information and to keep it confidential, to politicize it is very dangerous. >> we know through the left that the end justifies the means. that is how they

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southern area would like to would decide to increase it is not get anted that technically this is very cassidy can be brought on the stream quickly and on a stream and on without any problems to go up to meet on that asperity of soft law from next week or next month into the water market without problem there is a great possibility that it may not be actually to me don't bear a spirit is spare capacity available to put the the key on to what it on and off and i'd tell you if you allow me it one experience between one nine hundred eighty in one thousand seven hundred eighty saw that it be a did produce almost ten million barrels per day in those years and for the following ten years the nominal figure of everyone accepted in the press was that saudi arabia's oil production capacity was ten million barrels per day and in one thousand nine hundred august when saddam hussein forces entered the coate their war old put an embargo undecided not to buy oil from kuwait and. iraq so five mutambara spent a day of oil was lost from the war market and saw that even decided in a crash very interesting progr

cassidy: mr. cassidy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: mr. president, i rise to speak about i'll miss his maverick spirit. judge kavanaugh's nomination to be justice kavanaugh on the supreme court. let me begin, mr. president, by saying the senate has been hard at work vetting and confirming good judges to the bench. so far the senate has confirmed 60 of president trump's judicial nominees, an historic pace that includes 36 circuit judges, 33 district court judges and kneel gorsuch to the supreme court. this week we'll confirm even more as the confirmation process continues for president trump's second nominee, judge brett kavanaugh. in the last week or two the democratic minority has been very cooperative with this, appointing good conservative republicans to the district and circuit courts. but let me continue about judge kavanaugh, first let's just say that he is well regarded by his peers. he's a mainstream independent jurist well regarded across the political spectrum. look at his professional career to see why. his record a

republican senator bill cassidy signing and saying enough with the delays, time to confirm brett kavanaughnd bring washington democrats shameful smear campaign to a end but democratic senator cory booker addressed the accuser saying doctor ford, thank you for speaking truth to power. what you did today for survivors across this country was nothing short of hero. in all of your courage and bravery. it is up to those key swing votes. lawmakers were huddled together after the hearing and we have to wait and see. >> overall it gave politics a bad taste. >> what was up with this letter that was handed over to ford's lawyer? >> one moment peaking interest as they watched this hearing unfold, when democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lee handed an envelope to doctor ford's attorneys. you can see it being passed over right there. a lot of us wondering what was inside that envelope? folks on social media questioning that. freedom of information act, i want to know what is in that envelope. april saying it is probably a donation to pay fees. a lot of people thinking that. nothing like that. her o

cassidy was a direct bowen.ent of charles this man wrote about the war in ways. that wase people reading the letters looked into his soul. this man was a laborer before the war. this man set up a gambling shop to make money in the army. we had a talk yesterday about the financial burdens of war on the poor. let us not forget that those pressures were certainly great. bowen was trying to work his way up the social ladder by making some money. he was still a man who believed in couldbowen himself sympathize. his shoes were in tatters, he could not afford a new era of gloves, he was suffering greatly. he still refused to defy military authority. he refused to defy military authority because again of what he saw and more forrtantly of experience. two years, he had been in the experienced had comradese had seen his such as fredericksburg, he saw his comrades go to his death to follow orders for an attack that was of course suicidal. he had the experience in camp of seeing the suffering of his comrades. he was a subjected to discipline as well as inflicted discipline b

. >> now i will go to senator cassidy to chair and ask senator scott to go ahead. are you ready quick. >> i'm ready left mac he is always ready. [laughter] >> think you for spending time for us to help the average consumer have a better experience in healthcare. in 2163 .-point $3 trillion was spent on healthcare. so about 28 percent of those dollars come from households with that miracle perspective $9 billion paid by households and to be expected five .-point $7 trillion by 2026 the current ratio holds true at 28 percent of one .-point $6 trillion of the american households. is that accurate quick. >> you estimate one .-point 5 trillion of the current stimulus is paid for by employers or consumers by 500 billion of that is referred to as shop a bowl nonacute services if that is true that when people have the tools they need to shop around for care consumers and employers can save 50 percent or $250 billion for all types of services or expenses or savings. what steps can we take to improve the ability of consumers to shop around for such services quick. >> in our

ask -- cdx chief science officer breanna cassidy oversees testing. >> generally a full test will takeand 72 hours. reporter: labs test is key to -- how labs test is key to their business plan. one uses a petri dish to show harmful organisms. cdx is betting millions on a dna-based technique. >> we are cracking the cell movement and qualifying the dna. we get a snapshot of what microorganisms at what ratio are present on the cannabis on the shelf. reporter: which technique works better is up for debate. in either case the license to test will cultivate sales. >> by the end of september, beginning of october, the dispensaries that are up and running now will start to be able to sell. reporter: the dispensaries and labs still need to be inspected and the state needs to rollout , seed to sales software to monitor marijuana at all stages. once underway, the market is expected to hit $325 million this year and reach $1 billion by 2020. >> right now, there's no profitability, because it has been all money going out to get the infrastructure up and running. but i am hoping you know by the firs

for instance senator bill cassidy of louisiana the source is being considered, not the accuser but avenattiavenatti lawyer to porn star. senator lindsey graham pulled the same deal, the lawyer to porn stars has taken this debacle to a lower level. the lawyer to porn stars. the part of the bio he's forget is "lawyer to porn stars our president had sex with." these are very specific porn stars. [ cheers and applause ] meanwhile, brett kavanaugh seems to be backing off his claim on fox news that he was a model student in his prepared testimony today. he wrote in retrospect i said and did things in high school that make me cringe now. in retrospect you said things on fox news three days ago that should make you cringe now. [ laughter and applause ] tomorrow at the hearing kavanaugh and his first accuser, dr. christine blasey ford, will testify before the senate judiciary committee. to make his case, kavanaugh released his social calendar from summer of 1982. this is a calendar he kept when he was a kid. "usa today" got an exclusive look at the calendar and it rea reveals a lot. june 16th, he we

science officer breanna cassidy oversees testing in the lab. testing takes between 48 and 72 hours.a is key to the business plan. one uses a petri dish to show harmful microorganisms. >> we get a snapshot of the dna, at whatmicroorganisms ratio are present on the cannabis on the shelf. emily: which technique works debate.s up for >> certainly september, the end of october, i think, the does and series that are up and running now will be able to sell. emily: labs still need to be expected and the state needs to roll out software to monitor's sales at all stages. is market in massachusetts expected to hit $325 million this year and reach a billion dollars by 2020. not profitable's because it's all money going out to get the infrastructure up and running, but i'm hope and by the hoping byter -- i'm the first quarter of 2019 we will be showing a pretty significant profit. emily: massachusetts is the seventh state to legalize sales of recreational marijuana, and the first on the east coast, where it could want nate -- maine, newhbors -- jersey -- to go likewise. >> this is just in its in

let me say this, senator bloomenthal has come in, senator cassidy is waiting for his time. let's be as quick as possible and be respectful for the people who have been waiting here long time. >> i will do it fast. that's one of the beauties of electronic health records as i see it. >> yes. >> is that with the interoperability, a veteran will no longer be in the position of getting opioids from a private doctor or hospital, then going to the v.a. and getting another opioid. because once that happens, the system kicks in and red flags are raised and v.a. knows that that veteran is now on the spectrum. second part is i am talking to the president's opioid conference on friday. i am going to talk about the good news at the v. a. we are doing ground breaking work in getting our veterans off of opioids using things as simple as aspirin and advil. they work just as well. and also rehabilitative theories, orthopedic therapies. we are getting the opioid addiction down in the v.a. system and we still have a lot more work to do. >> thank you senator manchin. senator -- >> several thin

two senators emerge, bill cassidy of louisiana, roy blunt of missouri, a member of the republican leadership. they both just spoke to reporters and made that announcement. the key thing here, anderson, it's not clear whether they have the votes to confirm brett kavanaugh, because a handful of key senators, jeff flake, susan collins, lisa murkowski, and joe manchin on the democrat side, uncertain what they will do. so a roll of the dice by deciding to move forward tomorrow in committee. we'll see if anything changes. there have been a lot of changes in the last several days and weeks. but right now we expect them to move forward in the committee tomorrow and try to see if kavanaugh can get that lifetime seat by next week. >> thanks for that. i'm wondering your reaction, senator? >> it just comports with the rush that the republicans have to confirm judge kavanaugh, in spite of two other allegations that come forward, credible reports. they have no interest in hearing from anybody else. they want to rush this. they've always been on that track. and so i think that this is very much a message t

sundance kid"-- an early version of his "charming bad- guy" persona opposite paul newman's "butch cassidy> whoa! >> reporter: from there, film fans can reel off favorites. among them: "the way we were" with barbra streisand and "the sting," again with newman. both released in 1973. >> bob woodward. >> reporter: "all the president's men" with dustin hoffman, came in 1976. "the natural" in 1984 and many,y ore. recently "all is lost" a survival at sea drama and "ours so night," teamed once more with fonda, just last year. >> can i talk to you? o reporter: in 1980, he a launched a directing career-- and won an oscar for it-- with "ordinary people." otr directorial projects include "a river runs through it" and "quiz show." he tces it all to his southe california childhood. i rew up in a lower class neighborhood. and so the only entertainment we had-- there was no television at time, it was radio-- that you would walk to a local theater and see a movie. and so what i remembered was the joy of leaving this life you ddre forced to lead and go into a room that was ly dark with a lot of peop that

decision-making or not of teenagers but i've heard another senator use that same language earlier today, bill cassidy from louisiana suggesting to try to undermine this argument logically by saying people would not keep going back. i think that's worth paying attention to. thirdly, the presence of michael avenatti in this is a big deal. he's a polarizing figure in capitol hill just as he is in the country. you have some on the left who have fought against the president and some on the right who see everything he has touched as overly politicized. by injecting avenatti into this they have turned this even more into a political suspect cal. i think some republican senators who might have been inclined to listen more openly to dr. ford who will now see the involvement of avenatti in this as further evidence that this is somehow a politically organized smear campaign. his involvement could be a double edge sword here and play both ways. >> tom cotton has tweeted out that the fbi has investigated the latest investigation. none turned up alleged drug running, gang rape operation. he supposedly ran as a tee

. >> so, i spoke directly with senator cassidy of louisiana today, chris, who is a republican who's been very strongly supportive of brett kavanaugh. republicans are furious, chris, they're furious, though, over the timing. and i just asked him what i think is essentially the problem here, which is that they're not able to separate out their fury over the timing of this from the fact that there's more and more information coming out that suggests that these may be true stories. and so i asked him, i said, can't it be true that maybe democrats are seeking maximum political advantage here? fine, let me give you that. but can't it also be true that these women are telling the truth? and he grew very angry and he said, well, a lot of brett kavanaugh's classmates say it's not true. and i said who? he referred to this pj guy. and i said pj wasn't in the room. there was one person who was in the room, and that's mark judge. that's one person who dr. ford puts in the room. and again, he grew frustrated and said, well they deny that there was ever even a party. so that's kind of where we are righ

that's on that area would like to decide to increase it is not get anted that technically this is very cassidy can be brought on the stream quickly and honestly in iran without any problems to go up to meet on that disparity of soft law from next week or next month into the war in market without problem there is great possibility that it may not be actually to me don't bear a spirit is spare capacity available to put the the key on to what it on and off an idea if you allow me one experience between nine hundred eighty in one thousand seven hundred eighty saw that it be a did produce almost ten million barrels per day in those years and for the following ten years the nominal figure of everyone accepted in the press was that saudi arabia's oil production capacity was ten million barrel spending. and in one thousand nine hundred august when saddam hussein forces entered the cold wait there war put an embargo on decided not to buy oil from kuwait and. iraq so five million better spent a day of oil was lost from the war market and saw that even decided in it crash very interesting program put all

. >> the theme song for bush cassidy and the sundance kid. >> rosemary says it is coming. is coming we wait for. we get our umbrellas out. >> welcome to mornings here on this sunday, september 20 traumatic to her 30th. we will have more with rosemary in a moment on when those headlines around the bay area here. but the work is finally underway on the two million- dollar trans bay terminal as it kicks off today. >> the cause of those two cracked beams is still unknown. allie is going to join us however live with an update into this. >>> after a series of issues elon musk is stepping down as chairman of the board. all part of a settlement with the security and exchange commission. how that affect the company's future -- future? we will tell you. >>> there is so much help here in week for their combined 1-5 siu many to magic today. >>> raiders hosting the browns and the niners are in la taking on the charges. we are going to have both games to talk about here but first we talk about this weather. because, it is changing. >> it is going to be wet. a deadly feels like weather o

senator cassidy. >> hello, you all, i would say gentlemen, but you too, dr. bianchi. thank you for being here. you probably know from previous lines of questions, i've always been concerned about priorities and spending. just a couple of things as background. the societal cost of disease here, you see there's roughly, adjusted, for my colleagues who may not be familiar with this, just an amalgamation, somebody with an illness, how much do we use with productivity. these funding levels are from 2016. we see as we look at societal cost of disease, there's roughly a correlation between how much it costs disease -- how much it costs society and the disability and the death rate it causes. i have two figures for obesity. one is how the cdc says, okay, these are the folks who died, and this is everybody for whom obesity is listed on the coroners' report, knowing that obesity leads to a lot of other conditions that might be the primary cause of death, for example heart disease. can you hold up the other, please? my continued concern, and again, senator collins -- i mean, don

. >> senator cassidy? >> hello. carolina is from south and i'm listening to you speak and i'm thinking of my lucy a. -- aunt lucille. bringing a great memory. folks on this panel know that i'm very interested in dyslexia. it affects one in five of our students. here is an article from the journal of pediatrics, showing that the problem of dyslexia can be found as early as first grade. screen, then it's lost. you learn to read by great for and then you read to learn. i that time, you haven't learned to read. let me ask, not you mr. jeffries. of those were the educational directors, what are you specifically doing to screen for dyslexia? what aged you begin to screen? after having screened, what is your approach to address the issue? >> thank you. we just had a very thorough discussion with our legislature on something we are calling the nebraska reading improvement act and implementing some assessments. kindergarten through second grade and its other great. looking at what gaps there are in assessing a student's abil

. >> thank you senator cassidy. senator warren. >> thank you mister chairman for. -- with the wowing school district using federal education dollars, to buy guns for their teachers, as many public schools in this country cannot afford school nurses, guidance counselors, or basic classroom supplies for their students, allowing schools to use their federal dollars to put guns in classrooms is an idea that is dangerous, and dumb. it clearly wasn't our intent when we wrote essa. i want to thank all the moms who are here this morning, to remind congress that we don't work with the nra. we work with the people. i am here to talk about how states are implementing essa. and i will submit questions for the record. on accountability, provisions in the law. but last week, we marked one year anniversary of hurricane maria and irma, which absolutely devastated puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands. the puerto rican government recently revised its death pull, 2900 and 75 american citizens who lost their lives, due to maria and

i'd love to vote on it, graham, cassidy, heller johnson, which would more equitably distribute the expansion. i argued strenuously but unsuccessfully during the debate as well to have things like invisible high risk pools in maine that literally cut the cost for young people to a third of the current level and half for elderly individuals while not doing away with guaranteed issue. i mean, there are ways of doing this, and i'm happy to have the debate and i love to take a vote on it as well. that being said, our next questioner is senator peters. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and both of our witnesses, thank you again for being here today. administrator verma, i was pleased in your opening comments when you talked about how medicaid is absolutely essential to providing health care to folks in this country, and i hope that you're focused on a goal, which i hope all of us have, is that no matter who you are, no matter where you live, you should have access to quality affordable health care in this country. that should be our focus, and as we're looking to make medicaid more efficient, which we s

let's talk now to anita cassidy — she's been in an open relationship for three years...lationship?” feel secure and liberated but also all too often openness on television is all about sex, but in my experience openness is about communication and talking and sharing ethical feelings with each other. so you are saying an open relationship in reality is not all about going off and having sex with other people? absolutely, it's about learning, sharing experiences and getting amazing communication with each other. how does it work in practice, dani? you are doing it all the time... sorry, i mean in practical terms, so do you live in the same place as the person you are being the open relationship with? no, so this person lives in ireland andi no, so this person lives in ireland and i live in london but i'm also open to having a relationship in the same city. it can feel uncomfortable sometimes, say if there are ex—partners there or other people you are dating, and that doesn't necessarily mean sexually either, maybe flirting and things like that. if something comes up, i wan

won't put it up for a vote unless michalski, collins, flake, corker, cassidy, whoever feels they havethe second accuser, the third accuser has not materialized but michael avenatti says he hasn't been duped. the 40 a 5 hour clock ticked down to 0. if this were true, 36 years ago the accusations would be taken seriously. >> the prosecutor has a lot of experience in sex crimes. chuck grassley said he would avoid the circus-like thing we saw a few weeks ago, people coming out of the woodwork getting questions and interrupting everyone because they want to run for president one day. instead of grandstanding these are my goals, to depoliticize the process and get to the truth. he went on to say he wants a safe, comfortable, dignified environment. >> they talk about how brett kavanaugh tactics are dividing the democrats. some progressives saying he needs to pool his nomination, has withdraw but then you have the leaders who need an investigation, two tracks, democrat saying you got to withdraw, other saying let's have an investigation. dick durbin was asked about it, let's give him his day,

active throughout his long life as a member of the local lion's club and chairman of the christmas in cassidy park in b ugaloosa. he is someone that puts community and country first. we could always use a few more colonel millers in whatever community we call home and i thank him for everything and all he's done for bugaloosa and for the united states of america. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2 and the respect all americans and a lot have for that office where you just don't feel like balling out the president or taking him on the way you told your colleagues you were going to do. >> you know, when he was in china, he was called back to run the c.i.a. something he didn't want to do because he thought, to be honest, running the c.i.a. was a political career killer. he had an aspiration for higher office. he remembered his father saying, if the president of the united states asks to you do something for your country, the answer is yes. that sentiment i really think embodies his entir