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congressman john larson proposed last year and increase in benefits.e has not been an increase in benefits in 40 years. the democrats send make the republicans filibuster. make them get on the senate floor. show the american people what they're up to. the democrats did not do it. it is always unfinished business by the democrats. it is easy to go after republicans on this but then they go after the big health care industry, the drug industry. amy: that is interesting and i just want to say as you are speaking to us, we're showing an image of page nine of capitol hill citizen, medicare for all is but bernie sanders backs away , the staffights, and is has afl-cio aarp push medicare disadvantage. explain. >> yes. this is the program supported, i might add, by both republicans and democrats in recent years in congress, under the alleged claim of greater efficiency to that contracts be given by medicare to the large health insurance companies. as i mentioned, united health care, aetna. they take control. they put ads all over. saturation ads to elderly peop

>> well, i think it's urgent in that john larson actually has a bill calling for strengthening social so that rich people have to pay on their whole income to social security tax. and he actually increases social security benefits and finds sol vansy. that's the real question. let's just be honest. do we want people who have done very well to pay a little bit more on social security taxes so everyone can get more benefits and it's solvent, or do you want to cut the benefits or raise the retirement age? it's an honest debate. the democrats are for increasing benefits and having wealthy pay a little bit more and many of the republicans haven't been for that. they've been floating like paul ryan floated increasing the age, others said we have to cut benefit. let's have the debate, but i'm glad with republicans are saying they don't want to do that. >> so i want to ask you about new york democratic mayor eric adams. yesterday he said that, quote, woke democrats have caused the democratic party, again his words, to hemorrhage latino and asian american voters. today he doubled down and here

that's john larson's bill in the house.is a way to raise income threshold for bringing in more benefits and making social security able to continue to do the work social security in medicare continue to do the work that they need to do. we want to expand medicare. we want to provide dental vision and hearing for seniors. republicans want to cut it. that is the fundamental difference. >> we're gonna have you back and talk andrew detail about that proposal. meantime, thank you very much mary for joining us on the sunday. congresswoman pramila jayapal. coming up next, the race against time in turkey and syria while the death toll dramatically spikes again. is he looking at my hairline? my joint pain isn't too bad. well, it wasn't this morning. i hope i can get through this. is plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis making you rethink your everyday choices? otezla is a pill, not a cream or injection that can help people with plaque psoriasis achieve clearer skin. otezla is also proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and

. >> john larson with us for the next 15 minutes in 45 minutes the house will be coming in and we will be there for live coverage when they do. is also in easter or on c-span2. this is flawed and is in virginia. on a constant loss. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: on this vote the nays are the 7 -- 97. the nays are zero. the resolution is agreed to. under the previous order, the preamble is groid and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: i ask that the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: mr. president, i take this time to celebrate the success of the affordable care act. we just completed the open enrollment period for 2023. over 16 million americans signed up for health coverage under the affordable care act. that's about a hundred percent increase from th

host: congressman john larson was on this show in the past couple of weeks.a proposal called social security 2100. what would that do? guest: it has changed a little bit over time, so i'm not sure i could characterize it. in its essence it is a small benefit increase for some beneficiaries. it is a large tax increase. it is creating -- with regards to the cap four taxation earnings, but because that is fixed in nominal terms with inflation, it means it would be a very large tax increase. i would say again, i know max and his group has supported it, congressman larson introduced the will and a lot of cosponsors were democrats who controlled the house. there was no vote on it. they could have brought it up for a vote but they didn't. i don't think it would be very popular. >> i have to disagree. he had 203 cosponsors. i would say that is pretty popular around the country. it is unfortunate that it did not come up for a vote. it would increase benefits a lot. it had a more generous cost-of-living adjustment. the oldest of the old who have been on social security

congressman brett guthrie of the republican from kentucky, and congressman john larson, democrat from connecticut, to talk to you, our viewers, this morning. we will also be focusing on that fed policy meeting, which there is expected to be a quarter point interest raised. we will talk a little bit about that. and then, of course, president biden is set to meet today with speaker mccarthy, ahead of those debt ceiling negotiations. we will see if it's a negotiation. we will find out what they talk about, expect to hear comments from the president and his speaker after that meeting. so, a busy day here in washington. a busy day on capitol hill. yesterday, the president of the united states was in new york to talk about transportation issues, infrastructure issues. he's been talking about them all week long in new york yesterday. focusing on a 300 million dollar grant for the gateway hudson river tunnel project. here's a little bit of president biden talking to workers yesterday in new york. >> for too long, we've talked about asserting american leadership once again, building the best e