mr. cantwell? no. >> no. >> no. >> the final tally is10 ayes and 13 nayes. >> i'm going to offer this amendment. >> what is the number? >> number c-8. it is on behalf of myself and senator bingaman. we do not have a cbo score yet. we wanted to speak about it for a brief moment. we will move this amendment as the go forward in the process. what it does is make american citizens living importer rico, gong, samoa, eligible to purchase health insurance in the exchange and receive federal subsidies by the residents of the 50 states. i was dismayed to find that the mark to not allow these u.s. citizens who happen not to live in one of the 50 states access to the reforms that are such as signet again part of the bill. there are 4.4 million residents outside of u.s. territories. they are american citizens. porter ricans have been part of this nation for 1100 years. it as these residents to also benefit from the consumer protections established by this bill. they would be said to the same mandate as everyon

cantwell: mr. resident, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. cantwell: thank you, mr. president. i -- mr. president, i rise to talk about the health care reform bill and most urgent need to make sure that we have provider reform as part of the insurance reform package. and i want to thank the senator from minnesota for her leadership on this issue. she has hit the ground running when it comes to the issue of health care reform, advocating for changes in policy and introducing legislation at the beginning of this year called the value index legislation. and i'm proud to be a sponsor of that legislation a proud that we have worked together so diligently to try to communicate why this is so important for america. but clearly minnesota has had good results and is leading the country in the kinds of health care practices that weeed to adopt. and senator klobuchar has been able to put that into legislation and to cha

mr. lincoln. >> pass. >> ms. cantwell. >> aye. >> mr. menendez. >> aye by proxy. >> mr.grassley. >> past. >> mr. hatch. >> no. >> miss snowe. >> i am sorry. >> aye by proxy. >> mr. kyle. >> pass. >> mr. crespo. >> mr. corn anin. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> tally the vote. >> mr. chairman. >> i apologize, committee. i thought we were in the middle of the vote. the vote has not been called. who succeeds recognition? >> mr. chairman, remember, last night, in regard to amendment c9, i asked to put it off to see if we could work out something because it was creating a mixed emotion on both sides of the aisle. so i put it off with hopes that we could work out a compromise. we have not worked out a compromise. but i am going to offer a modification of c9. in other words, less money from people that to get more than 300% of poverty. there would be less resources to help in the case of pediatricians and the children's hospital, etc., under the program. so i will go through and explain. the original amendment provided additional $40 billion in payments to providers. it was paid fo

mr. y dannon. >>aye. >> ms. cantwell. >> aye. >> mr. menendez. >> no. >> mr. grassley. >> no. >> mr. hatch. >> no. >> mr. kyle. >> no by proxy. >> mr. roberts. >> no by proxy. >> mr. enzi. >> no by proxy. >> mr. chairman. >>no. no. >> mrs. lincoln. >> aye. >> i would like to vote mr. conrad aye by proxy. >> the final vote is 10 ayes, 13 nays. >> the amendment fails. >> the public option is a government insurance plan that would compete with private insurers to offer coverage to basically middle-class americans under age 65. >> the chairman's mark does not what does he propose instead? >> he proposes a system of what he calls health co-ops or cooperatives across the country that would compete with private insurers. a lot of liberals think it would be a competitor. there would be owned and controlled by the people they cover -- they would be owned and controlled by the people they cover, rather than the government. >> but the finance committee will be seeing a number of options next week when their sessions resume. what is most prominent? >> senators john rockefeller and chuck schumer

mrs. lincoln? >> no. >> ms. cantwell. >> no. >> mr. carper. >> no. >> mr. grassley. >> aye. >> mr. buuning. aye by proxy. \ >> mr. ensign. >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> no. >> chairman votes no. >> clerk will tally the vote. >> the final tally is 10 ayes and 30 nays. -- and 13 nays. >> amendment is not passed. next amendment is senator from massachusetts. >> i will just talk about this briefly. i want to raise this issue. i think bill flynn we can work on this between now and on the floor. i am confident because the position i am advocating is c15, 240. this amendment will be part of the melding of the two bills that is important for us to confront. that is the question of what is the appropriate age rating. my amendment is designed to put a 2-1 rating, which is what is in the health bill. we will have to confront the issue. allowing insurers to charge older americans a vastly higher premiums might be 6 to 1. if you allow them to charge older americans because they are older, i don't think that is a step in the true direction of health-related outcomes in help. it automatically treats everybo