mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. madam president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. madam president, this past saturday the open enrollment period for the obama health care law opened in terms of the health exchanges. people who bought health insurance through that healthcare.gov or through their state's exchange, they're finally allowed to see how much their insurance is going to cost next year. you know, things were pushed back beyond the election so people wouldn't be able to find out before the election what it was going to cost. so the obama administration had all this information for awhile but they intentionally kept it secret until after election day. well, now people get to see the prices and many people across the country are absolutely in shock the increased costs of the health care law. millions of americans are learning that their health healh insurance is going to cost them a lot more. and, as a matter of fact, when the exchanges opened

mr. barrasso: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: i come to the floor today to express my support for the approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline. this is bipartisan legislation. the house passed this bill with 31 democrats voting for it. last week senate republicans welcomed the news that the outgoing senate majority leader had finally decided to let the senate vote on this legislation and the vote is finally going to take place today. for years house and senate republicans have been pushing legislation to approve the keystone p.l. pipeline but until now the outgoing senate majority wouldn't -- majority leader wouldn't let the senate vote on this measure. it was part of the majority leader's efforts to protect the president and the president's agenda. the majority leader had hoped that the american people would forget about the senate. he had hoped they'd be satisfied with president obama's job approval. well, two weeks ago the american people made it clear they have not forgotten about the senate, the american people made i

barrasso. good morning to you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> when you heard mr.lf, we knew that. they wrote this bill in such tortured language, nobody knew what it was about. >> well, absolutely. i find his comments very offensive. it confirms people's greatest fear about the government. remember, it was nancy pelosi said first you have to pass it before you get to find out what's in it. we knew it was written in a way that it was really deliberately written to deceive the american people. now people are paying the price. we see it. there are so many unpopular components of the health care law. people can't keep their doctor. they're paying higher premiums, higher co-pays, higher deductibles, which is why we're trying to repeal the entire piece of legislation right now. >> sure. and one of the things in one of the extended bites he explains that the reason we kind of hid the truth was because people are stupid. but it's for their own good. has it been for their own good so far? >> well, i trust the people, not the government, in so many matters. this is certainl

mr. barrasso: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. madam president, with regard to the health care law, the proof has come out today. the administration has been cooking the books. that's just not me saying it, madam president. it's come out all across the press. "usa today" just out, "obama administration gave bad health exchange numbers." associated press, "oops, administrative erred on health law signups." let's take a look at this. the department of health and human services said thursday, this is reading from "usa today," "it made a mistake in how it calculated enrollments under the affordable care act, including 400,000 dental plans in its figures for medical plans. now those dental plans allowed the obama administration to claim more than seven million enrollments." and seven million, madam president, was long considered the magic number, the magic number that would all