senator enzi read the bill. i know a number of our members who read it were very concerned and came to the floor and spoke about different parts of the bill. i can remember senator susan collins standing here with her sign about the impact on small businesses. and how detrimental it was going to be. i remember senator olympia snowe down here on the floor focusing on how it was going to impact businesses in maine. and yet all of these concerns that we raised which are now coming home to roost today were ignored on the other side of the aisle. well, this woman continues and concludes by saying, "with this kind of representation in the senate, i would ask wyoming voters this question: is now a good time to send a new u.s. senator to washington and lose this experience and seniority?" i'll tell you, i'm proud to stand with senator enzi and he saw it coming. he saw it coming three and a half years ago with this -- with this amendment on the senate floor. and we voted that way, and the democrats voted essentially to c

poor old mike enzi is kind of like you know, a jackalope walking down the highway in wyoming.u know he is a former shoe salesman, who by the way, i think has one of the higher conservative voting records in the senate. >> yeah, and that is what i mean by there is no ideological content here. >> there isn't, i don't like to say these kind of things because i don't like to call people names, but the sheer arrogance of what the cheneys are doing, it is breathtaking. and i know wyoming, it will be interesting to see if the republicans are willing to put up with it in wyoming. it will be interesting. >> we'll be right back. >>> the pope is killing it. he is just killing it. he is bringing new people back in. he is bringing young people back in. and he is running to the left of just about everybody. >> it would be hard to talk about a more globally admired figure than the pope. he is seen as a progressive pope, who once worked as a bouncer, now it is reported he may be sneaking out of the vatican at night in disguise to personally feed the homeless, this well-loved pope is making en

poor old mike enzi is kind of like you know, a jackalope walking down the highway in wyoming.ou know he is a former shoe salesman, who by the way, i think has one of the higher conservative voting records in the senate. >> yeah, and that is what i mean by there is no ideological content here. >> there isn't, i don't like to say these kind of things because i don't like to call people names, but the sheer arrogance of what the cheneys are doing, it is breathtaking. and i know wyoming, it will be interesting to see if the republicans are willing to put up with it in wyoming. it will be interesting. >> we'll be right back. n how ist a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that's too many -- it's not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor. here's a solution. one pac of cascade complete cleans tough food better than six pacs of the bargain brand combined. so you can tackle tough messes the first time. that is more like it. how are you with taxes? [ laughs ] [ counselor ] and for even more cleaning power, try cascade platinum. but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance and

poor old mike enzi is kind of like you know, a jackalope walking down the highway in wyoming. is a former shoe salesman, who by the way, i think has one of the higher conservative voting records in the senate. >> yeah, and that is what i mean by there is no ideological content here. >> there isn't, i don't like to say these kind of things because i don't like to call people names, but the sheer arrogance of what the cheneys are doing, it is breathtaking. and i know wyoming, it will be interesting to see if the republicans are willing to put up with it in wyoming. it will be interesting. >> we'll be right back. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat all that. it doesn't? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. oh, what a relief it is! has some very special power. ♪ [ toys chattering ] it's filled with new duracell quantum batteries. [ toy meows ] [ dog whines ] [ toy meows ] these red bat

think, at the end of the day, senator enzi's going to win.y double digits. liz cheney has done everything wrong in a primary race. she's labeled as a carpetbagger, lived lived in virginia majority of her life. there's a hunting license and fishing license incident. she's not really in line with her family's thinking when it comes to gay marriage. wyoming, she appears to be flip-flopping back and forth. i think she's going to lose the primary. i think she's going to lose big. >> richard, what about this overall, the republican family feud? is this going to hurt the party? >> you know, dick cheney, liz cheney's dad, was discredited towards the end of the bush/cheney administration nationally. i think he's not helping himself even in wyoming. he seem to be calling in chip his just doesn't have. he's kind of alienating a lot of people on his daughter's behalf. she's certainly trying to run roughshod in a place where she's not getting traction at all. it's not just double digit, it's 20, 30, 40-point spread she's losing by relative to senator enzi

i mean, as manu was saying, people feel like enzi's done a good job.ot really a reason to challenge him. i no i know she likes to cast herself as part of a new generation. that doesn't seem like an argument. >> even though she's running to the right of him she's really not one of these tea party challengers you talked about in your -- mentioned in your introduction. >> we had to throw her in there. >> you threw her in there. i understand for what reasons. yes, she was able to make news. get into the cable news circuit. when it comes to her particular challenge, i think she just said, enough. i don't want to wait any longer. that's a big difference between some of these others like when we talk about congressman stockholm going against senator kaurin, frankly loony tune. absolutely received no support when he announced. >> we'll get to him. i want to talk about mississippi. there's a very interesting race there. chris mcdaniel, who is challenging cochran. there was actually already a minor controversy. mother jones rortsed he addressed a neoconfederate

sessions: thank you, senator enzi. i just was referring to the fact that senator enzi is the one that has explained to us in a very clear way from his accounting background on the problems we've had with the pension guarantee fund -- on the pension guaranty fund. it is actuarial unsound in the long run. you can't put it on a better basis if you tax the employers. it may even rediewrks as you say, senator enzi, the number of employers who provide a pension. that would be a terrible, terrible policy error if we keep driving up the cost to supposedly fix the fund but then spend the money on something else and we, therefore, disincentivize the businesses to even have a retirement plan for their employees. so thank you for raising that very important issue. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate recess from 12:30 until 26789156789 to allow for the -- 12:30 until 2:15 to allow for the weekly caucus meetings and the time run during recess. the presidi

the cheneys versus enzi. this has nothing to do with ideology.t is not like the other. >> that was just the point i was going to make. i think it was cheney wanted to create this as she is the true conservative. mike enzi is among the most conservative members. he is not part of a leadership. there is no argument that she made yet that convinces me and i'm sure voters why he needs to be fired. >> the most important thing here and will let you chime? on this. only one of the seven would be problematic in a general election if the incumbent loses. thank you very much. >> thanks, chuck. >> we have election results. that's one of the big things in the data bank. how many women have chaired the senate budget committee? the first person to tweet the correct answer gets an on air shout out. the answer and more is coming up. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online so i can rea

yet you have mike enzi out there. they can't accept they have won the broader argument about spending. i will bring to everyone's attention this quote in mother jones. the war over austerity is over. kevin drum writes, the ultimate result is a budget below even the pipe dream paul ryan budget of 2011. two years ago ryan's budget was basically at the outer limit of mainstream conservative wish lists. today it looks tame. republicans have massively changed spending conversation since 2010. austerity has won. what do you make of that. >> well, i think the most important moment during this debate was when john boehner stood up to the right wing groups that have really put the republican party on that suicide mission and said he's not going to take it anymore. that could create a path forward for some of the president's bigger priorities like immigration reform. i actually think the attention you mentioned on the botched obama care rollout created a distraction from the budget process and allowed senator murray and congres

mike enzi knew what was going to happen. he put a bill on the floor, and all my colleagues said no, we don't want you to be able to keep your insurance. it doesn't work that way. what about the deceit of this? is it significant? sure it is. it's a matter of trust. the third thing, the promise of president obama that on average your health insurance costs will go down $2,500 a year. i don't know who told him that, dr. emanuel or who, i don't know what wiz bang accountant or financial forecaster told him that, but it's just the opposite of that. probably the average american is going to spend about $2,500 more trying to get equivalent care to what they had, not keeping their same insurance and not keeping their doctor. and then finally, the deceit that is assumed but not spoken is that your doctor is going to get to make decisions with you, for you about your health care, because when the independent payment advisory board gets going, it's not just about medicare. it's about everybody. and if a group of unelected bureaucrats t

she's challenging the incumbent republican senator from wyoming, mike enzi has she has a real uphille ahead of her, doesn't she? >> she does. there's a real suspicion about liz cheney. i think that the cheney name helps her an awful lot in the state of wyoming but there's a real question, wolf, of whether she's a carpetbagger and whether she's just coming back to the state of wyoming to run. she moved back there two years politically, and holding political office, so folks out west don't much like carpet baggers. i yesterday when bob kerrey ran for senate in nebraska having left the state for ten years. they didn't think so much of him returning to the state, either. that's been a huge problem of hers, and she hasn't gotten the support of sort of the state hierarchy out there, alan simpson, another senator from wyoming, now retired, is supporting mike enzi, not her, and that's sort of blown up in the press for her. she's got a lot of problems out there and she's behind in every poll taken. >> sig knltly behind, at least in the polls i have seen from wyoming. gloria, i'll see you late

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almost like a family feud when you consider senator enzi hasn't done anything to offend conservativesheney family until now. so far enzi, polls show a 50% edge, a lot of time between now and then. >> that is eight incumbent senators up for re-election if 2014 and who are facing republican primary challenges. in a different time, we'd assume that most of these are mostly new sans challenges and we would just ignore them. if we have learned anything in the tea party era, it's that the right is happy to go to war with its own and if you end up on its hit list, it can take you out with literally anyone. just ask mike castle and richard lugger. that's how it worked if 2010. that's how it worked in 2012. we are going to find out if it's going to be the same in 2014. asw stapler purchase in three years. but then i saw the new windows tablet, . ask me what it's like to get your best night's sleep every night. [announcer] why not talk to someone who's sleeping on the most highly recommended bed in america? ask me about my tempur-pedic. ask me how fast i fall asleep. ask me about staying asleep

. >> i have worked with the nrsc who is supporting mike enzie, but that is something that's not as much issue, but it's a character issue. it's a question about why is liliz cheney having a fight that's very public in her public. >> a person will try to block a person's right to marriage equality. >> they all agree. >> they agree on this issue, but it's not a problem for mike enzi, it's a problem for liz because she is fighting about it with her sister. >> thank you very much. up next, new details about the crash that killed paul walker. the future of "the fast and furious" franchise. a lottery ticket lost for nearly a year. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help create a personalized healthcare experience that works for you. and you. and you. with 50 years of know-how, and a dedicated network of doctors, health coaches, and wellness experts, we're a partner you can rely on -- today, and tomorrow. we

to cause trouble for his wife who is running for senate in wyoming against incumbent senator mike enzi well that's nice the real story here is that republicans finally have proof of voter fraud is real and the guilty person is one of their own a federal or a fellow republican. savior this one for one. and the. very ugly bryan fischer phil robertson the star of a nice hit reality show duck dynasty was suspended today in the wake of almost phobic comments he made in an interview with g.q. robertson told reporters that he thought homosexuals sex was unnatural and not once or are obvious and has been rightly criticized for his comments not everyone thinks he's such a bad guy and fischer of the american family association let him know on twitter how he feels about robinson he said phil robertson is a new american hero he said exactly what the great majority of americans believe. whether or not a majority of americans actually do agree with robertson is beside the point what he said was ignorant and hateful fact that anyone could find homophobia worthy hero worship is just fear for. republic

joins senate minority leader mcconn l mcconnell, senator thad cochran, senar mime cochran and senator enzintest with the former vice president's daughter, senator lamar alexander on the lest of incumbent republicans with what could be a very tough primary battle. the question now is, could we see a repeat of 20 ten when two republican incumbents, senators robert bennett and lisa murkowski, joining us to assess all of this, doug schoen, judith miller, fox news legal analyst, great to have you all here. let me start with you, doug, this is, i mean, this looks like a real battleground shaping up for the republican party. >> it is, this is the best news other than the budget deal president obama had all day. bottom line, the tea party has a fervent group of activists who vote in primaries. even if this wo, four, seven incumbents you have there are all leading, probably leading comfortably now. they all are worried because of the nature of the republican primaries. >> does this disquiet you? >> the squabbling has to be great for the democrats, right? you have all squabbling with nobody really o

congressional budget office says that senator enzi's bill with a allow consequently for 750,000 more americans at a lower cost. allow customers to purchase insurance across state lines. if there's a policy from kentucky that fits my need, why shouldn't i be able to do it, if i can afford it? expand health savings accounts. incentivize the growth of private health insurance exchanges. that's beginning to develop all across our country, giving more choices to employees. make it easier for patients to compare prices and quality of doctors and medical services. incentivize states to reward junk lawsuits. those are the steps in the right direction that we'd like to go. when erving crystal died not long ago, james q. wilson wrote a tribute in the "wall street journal" which struck me. he said that when they began their association as neoconservatives -- they were mostly democrats -- he said, we were -- we were policy skeptics. he said, that was mainly what our common view was. and by that i think he must have meant that they did not believe that washington could -- could through a comprehe

she is challenging mike enzi. cheney's father will be the key note speaker here in d.c.s negative one. newly minted democrat charlie crist is down a campaign manager in the bid for florida governor. he left abruptly one month into the official campaign. he simply wanted to move back to new york. he was the campaign manager for bill deblazio. 21 is the number of years passed since bill clinton made the remark about not inhaling and smoking pot. it came up in an interview this week that he did with fusion. take a listen. >> have you denied it? >> i never denied they used marijuana. i told the truth. i thought it was funny. the only journalist who was there said i told the truth. everyone else had to cover that up because that's not the story they wanted to tell. >> he said he never tried to hide experimenting with marijuana and doesn't think legalizing pot would end violent in latin american countries. the next number is $153 million, the mind-boggling seven-year deal they inked for out fielder jacoby ellsbury. he's the third highest paid in major league history. more impo

we lost enzi, orrin hatch. remember that? there was a hope there. >> talking about in 2009 when the finance committee was -- >> a real grown-up approach to health care instead of partisan one. >> we will hear from the president shortly and thank you both very much. david gregory, chris matthews. part of the ceiling looking overseas part of the ceiling at london's 112-year-old apollo theatre in that city's west end crashed down onto the audience bringing down sections of the balcony injuring 76 people. fortunately no fatalities and it happened 45 minutes into the performance. chunks of plaster and wooden beams on the audience causing panic and confusion. >> loud bang. i think it was an explosion and the ceiling came down. dust, chandelier, wood and all of that stuff and landed on five or six rows. >> we thought it was sound effects of the theater. then we just looked up and the whole ceiling like slow motion came down. we're going across america to let people try the deep sweep power brush by oral-b for the first time. wow. it

in wyoming, mike enzi faces a nasty challenge from liz cheney. senior senator pat roberts also elected in '96 is being primaried by a tea party backed radiologist. in tennessee, facing a tea party backed opponent. in kentucky mitch mcconnell has to first tango with a republican opponent before taking on a democratic one who's up by two points. and in mississippi as i mentioned, senator thad cochran has got to fight his own party. in georgia there's at least eight republicans vying to replace the retiring senator saxby chambliss. lindsey graham faces a crowded field of republicans to unseat him. these are the faces of powerful republican senators who are forced to defend their seats against their own party. michael steele's an expert. he's a former chair of rnc and political analyst. michelle goldberg writes for the nation. let's be sophisticated about this. some of these states are so conservative that probably the most conservative will win no matter what. south carolina, mississippi. i'm trying to think of the other one. maybe wyoming. there's

she needs to build a case for why mike enzi, who's been elected and re-elected in the state, why he should be fired and replaced by her. none of this, which is basically all we've talked about as it relates to the cheney family in this race for the last couple weeks if not months, none of this goes to building that case. >> and speaking of all the problems that the white house has had and building the case, peter, one of the reasons why democrats are so nervous is they're nervous about losing the senate. and it could turn on mark pryor in arkansas. take a look at his new ad. >> i'm not ashamed to say that i believe in god and i believe in his work. the bible teaches us no one has all the answers, only god does. and neither political party is always right. this is my compass, my north star. it gives me comfort and guidance to do what's best for arkansas. i'm mark pryor, and i approved this message because this is -- >> that's pretty remarkable. one of the most endangered democrats in a red state. actually being targeted by mike bloomberg's mayors against guns campaign to the distress now of

with the enzi amendment. to grandfather all these plans in. and all my colleagues on the other side of the aisle said no. said no. so here's brian with a wife at home and two small children under 5. he is stuck in no man's land. do you think he thinks president obama is truthful? no. does he think those that touted the affordable care act are truthful? no. he's lost confidence in his government. and that's really where we are in our country today. we're in a crisis of confidence. with washington. it was never meant to be. if you read the enumerated powers. as a matter of fact, we have the enumerated powers act. it has 36 cosponsors. which says simply that if you play a bill to the floor, you have to state what section of the constitution gives you the authority to legislate in that area, based on what the article 1, section 8 of the constitution has to say. disappointingly, there's not one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that's cosponsored that bill. it doesn't stop you from offering the bill. it just says please reference wher

and you've got senators like hab senator graham, senator enzi, for example, even perhaps the leader of republicans, mitch mcconnell although he hasn't declared one way or another, he's being primaried. they're worried that this deal is not purely conservative enough because it does lift some of those automatic spending limits. and so it's an easier vote for them to vote against it right now. >> paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee, the republican vice presidential nominee back in. 2012, be he's doing well in this brand new des moines register poll as far as potential republican presidential candidates. >> a little early, wouldn't you say? of course, we're talking about it. look, he's got name recognition. he was on the national ticket last time, wolf. and he's somebody who's kind of walking a fine line here because don't forget. in the government shutdown, he voted in the end to keep the government shut down, which was with the conservatives in the house, with the hell no caucus. he sided with them. and now he's cutting a budget deal. so i think he wants to appeal to b

among the seven senators who force 2014 primary challenges, four rushed to a oppose it -- enzi, graham, cornyn and roberts. mitch mcconnell's credentials have being defended today in a new ad linking him to the senator from kentucky, rand paul. but mcconnell has declined to say publicly how he'll vote. sources say he plans to vote against it. then there's mississippi's thad cochran who faces a tea party challenge from chris mcdaniel. he's not coming out for or against the agreement but has signaled he may use the military pension cuts in deal as a reason to pose it. he said there is no justification in first turning to those who have served or are serving in the military and asking them to make new sacrifices. today the other senators co-sponsoring a republican amendment to restore the pension cuts, kelly ayotte, lindsey graham, and roger wicker, will bring military families to the senate to protest the cut. tennessee's lamar alexander told "business week" he is reviewing the bill. hasn't made a decision yet. when the senate closes the books on the budge net the next 36 hours it still

enzi: mr. president, i rise today to express my disappointment that the budget deal we'll soon be voting on reflects just that -- a deal. not legislation, a deal. it raises spending above the caps. now, that's the spending limits that we put in place just two years ago. it raises revenue from hardworking americans to pay for this new spending and promises to cut some spending in future. we've seen how that story ends before. we've already read that book. we'll spend more now, we'll grow the government now and ultimately the spending cuts will never materialize. i have a favorite truck driver, retired truck driver in pinedale, wyoming, who suggested that we needed to quit putting people in the wagon and get more people pulling the wagon. and what, of course, he's referring to is the way that we're growing government. every time we grow government, we put some more people in this wagon that the private sector has to pull. yes, everybody in government pays taxes but not one person in the governmen

enzi: thank you, mr. chairman. -- thank you, mr. president. "good morning america," wyoming. in i would i would it is midnight now. i suspect that were people watching and probably wondering what's going on. we're here at this hour dealing with a nonessential distraction and it is being done so that it's a distraction from the mounting obamacare problems. none of these nominees need to be confirmed, not even the circuit court judges, maybe especially the circuit court junls. -- judges. i was here when president bush tried to fill those judges on the d.c. circuit and i remember senators reid and the chairman of the judiciary committee making an impassioned speech that they weren't needed, that the workload was too low in the district of columbia. that they should not be approved. and of course since they were in the majority, they had the capability to ever keep that from happening. but when the shoe is on the other foot, they need those d.c. court judges, even though the caseload has not gone up so they broke the rules to change the rules and part of that was so that -- we're

mike enzi, for example. a lot of conservatives. >> mitch mcconnell has a primary, potentially. >> he hasn't exactly said how he's going to vote on this. >> think he will vote no? >> probably. >> so you have senate republicans who are running scared of members of their own party. >> i think that's right. the politics have changed but it's about who has ownership over the deal. a year ago when mcdonnell and biden had a handshake and a deal the senate was this august institution where the republicans and democrats got together and joined hands. now this isn't mcconnell's deal. it's murray who negotiated with the house republicans and consummated this, and add to that when you just talked about -- >> mitch mcconnell didn't want this to be his deal, by the way. he stayed as far away as he could. >> because he's dealing with a primary challenge. >> the other dynamic among democrats is that i mentioned mark pryor, who is probably one of the most endangered democrats. >> from arkansas. >> from arkansas, very tough r

that's why today senator alexander, senator enzi, and i plan to introduce a bill to i have go the american people the transparency that they deserve when they're making important health care decisions for their families. we're calling this bill, "the premium disclosure act," and it will do a couple of important things. first, our bill sets the exchangeexchange's opening statn statute so that democrats can't change it to meet their political goals around an election. second, the bill says that the obama administration has to make premiums and cost-sharing requirements public 30 days before the open enrollment begins, so people will have this important information in mid-september making it easier for families to budget and to plan. the department of holt and humae department of health and human services has previously said it doesn't have this authority and that's why they said we need to weighwait until october 1 to set premiums would be this year. this bill will give the administration no more excuses for hiding cost increases from the american people. americans wanted a very few simple t

a very, very thoughtful united states senator, a guy by the name of mike enzi, put in a resolution of disapproval of which would have canceled that regulation. back then, he was able to get it to a vote. now, you would think that if you want to support the president of your party in his promise -- his pledge to the american people, if you like your plan, you're going to get to keep it, period, you'd vote with your president. you would think that would be 100-0. i don't know how republicans could be against that. i don't know how democrats could be against that. after all, that's what this person in authority promised the american people. if you like your plan, you get to keep it, period, he said, over and over and over again. it was like a broken record. you know how that vote went here? let me remind us. it failed on a party-line vote. democrats voted no on the resolution, if you like your plan, you get to keep it. my goodness, is that an embarrassment or what? what was the message that day? were they trying to say no, if you like your plan, you don't get to keep it? the president is

enzi repeated the government accountability office report has highlighted cord reports have highlighted a number of internal management challenges have impeded the federal protection service ability to protect facilities. for example, the federal protective service must complete the facility's security assessment in a timely manner so that they can share with them what to the offices that protect because it has been able to do that other agencies have sought to complete their own facility secured the assistance creating unnecessary duplication and waste. the federal protective service must also do a better job of tracking and overseeing the training of the 14,000 contract guards it uses to protect its facilities. the agency must ensure that both its federal law enforcement officers and the armed security guards it uses are appropriately trained, equipped and prepared. ensuring the training equipment, preparedness of the federal officers informed contract security guards is essential to provide for the security of the facilities safeguarded by the federal protective service. this will re

also liz cheney, who is running in the republican primary against long time wyoming senator mike enzingress, but she has long made her home in virginia. just outside of washington, d.c. so with all of the pitfalls of running for office in another state, not the state you're identified with, we have come up with five easy steps to succeeding as a carpetbagger. to go through them with us, at the table, we have msnbc.com political reporter benjy sarlin, ann lewis, ana marie cox of the guardian and sahil kapur of talking points memo.com rejoins us. so, scott brown in new hampshire, the liz cheney in wyoming, i hear that campaign is not going very well. we'll talk about that a little bit in a minute and maybe diagnose it. maybe offer her some friendly advice on how to fix things. let's start going through the rules. i'll put the first one up there. our first rule of successful political carpetbagging is do have a famous name. we think here of an example in new york, 13 years ago, new york state, where hillary clinton, first lady, who was born in illinois, went to school in massachusetts, a

one republican senator, senator enzi from wyoming, stood up and said no, we will vote on this. we will vote on whether or not your policy can be canceled. and so what happened? it came back and guess what? the regulation that says your policy can be canceled if it ever changes, the regulation that's allowing millions of people to be canceled, every democrat in the body voted for it, including a few of them who are running headlong away from the president. they can't get away from the president -- they can't get away from him fast enough. so they're running headlong away from the president saying, oh, i didn't know that that rule was going to be there. i really thought you could keep your doctor. bunk. they all knew it. they all voted directly on it. not only did they vote for obamacare, three months later they voted for the rule that is allowing millions of people to have their insurance canceled. so these senators who are saying, oh, mr. president, we might need to fix this and i have a solution, they all voted for the rule. we had a direct vote in the senate on the rule that

senator enzi was right. there was an article in pow, wyoming, with the headline, "enzi saw a.c.a. impacts beforehafnltdz" shows the value of senator enzi. "fox news had a very interesting and informative program on "the kelly files." ages anyone who watches fox news know, they're covering the beginning effects of the affordable care act also known as obamacare. as it is being implemented, megan kelly began her program saying she had a special guest who had predicted three and a half years ago almost exactly what will happen when the obamacare law goes into effect this october. her special guest was our own wyoming senior senator mike enzi, and he had made his predictions in a speech on the senate floor, right from that desk right over there, three and a half years ago. he was then called a fearmonger, called by the democrats a fearmonger, and a radical right-winger. senator enzi was probably one of a very few elected officials who had actually read the bill. senator enzi reads all the bills, understands the bills, understands the implications. then he goes and reads the federal re

some restrictive grandfathering regulations from the department of health and human services, senator enzi, who is ranking member of the help committee tried to get it fixed and again we saw a party-line vote, all of our democratic friends said no, let's not provide flexibility for the grandfathering provisions, let's maintain the provisions which have now resulted in more than five until people getting notices that the policies they have even though they like them they cannot no longer have. that's why i've said this is one of the biggest cases of consumer fraud ever perpetrated in the united states by virtue of its scope and the audacity with which these promises were made time and time again which are demonstrably not true, they're false. we know that obamacare is leading to a dramatic spike in insurance premiums for many people who buy their insurance in the individual market. you'll recall that during and after the 2008 presidential election, president obama repeatedly told americans that his health care plan would reduce their health care premiums for a family of four by about $2,500