with that, i recognize my colleague and ranking member senator stabenow for her remarks. thank you mr. chairman and i'm also glad to welcome the new committee member so we will do that more formally at some point that i am absolutely pleased to think and vote them again secretary perdue. the communities are great places to live with a family and start a business however many of the communities face unique challenges. mr. secretary, i know you are well aware that the farm and the rural economy has been a tough spot. economic hardship and the need for food assistance remains higher than in many of the rural communities and you also know low commodity prices have continued to plague the farmers as i'm sure you heard in michigan the dairy farmers have been struggling with market instability and for too long they haven't had a reliable safety net. after working with appropriation leaders for the last year, i am pleased we were able to deliver much-needed improvements to the dairy farmers and cotton growers in the bipartisan budget act. it's too rollout the new and improved pro

how come debby stabenow would have a chance against that?> well, michigan's one of those split states. a purple state, if you will. we often send a democratic senators to washington, but if you look at our congressional delegation, nine of the 14 are republicans. so, it's a state that can go either way, as we learned in november of 2016 when michigan was carried by the president by just over 10,000 votes. it's a close call here in michigan, but what people see in donald trump a he is not worried about short-term popularity. he's worried about results. leland: really? >> he's not governing by polling, he's worried about putting like the tax cuts, not popular to begin with, but now getting more popular every day. that's the key to winning michigan. leland: all right. and fair. as we wrap this up, you paint a very rosie picture for president trump in the way michiganders respond to him. the question is, then, how do republicans screw this up, whether it's pensler or james, how do they not screw up the support of trump's supporters and at the sa

as a result of our massive tax cuts which by the way debbie stabenow voted against. if the democrats get in they will take the tax cuts away and raise your taxes to a much higher level than you ever thought possible. that's what they want to do, so they can give the money away. millions of americans are receiving large bonuses and bigger paychecks than they ever received because they have so much money that they didn't even know they were making. you see what's happened as of february 1. and right after the cuts, the corporations gave massive bonuses and they continue. chrysler hand out $2,000 bonuses to 0,000 workers and announced plans for a $1 billion investment in warren creating a minimum of,5 -- of 2,500 jobs. they are now leaving other countries and coming back to michigan. remember i told you that five or six years ago. they are now coming back. and they will come back a lot faster than you have seen. you know what's even more important than that? leaving? we don't give them the incentive to leave anymore. we are giving them incentive to stay and to pay our p

senator debbie stabenow. [booing] he voted against case law. she voted against tax cuts.es against borders. she wants people to flow into the country. and you people just keep putting her back again and again and again. it's your fault. booing] pres. trump: you have to get to the polls. we have some great people running. the primary is going to be over with soon. we have some great people. if you want the borders be secure, if you want to keep those big taxes -- how have you done with the tax cut, by the way? [applause] and not only the tax cuts. the jobs that have been created. the jobs. unemployment, let me tell you. our country is doing great. the stock market, which is not really the all-time indicator, because the country is doing much better than the stock market, but the stock market is up almost 35% since the election. the country is doing even better than that. you know what bothers the stock market? i can't let other countries take advantage of us. [applause] pres. trump: i can't. we are doing trade deals. a lot of these folks in washington, please don't do that

giroir: thank you, senator stabenow. i appreciate the fact that you're helping us highlight importance of naloxone. it does not solve substance abuse disorder and does not get to the root cause, but it is an absolutely critical drug that literally brings life back to a person on the brink of. -- on the brink of death. first of all, the state targeted grants that i talked about, the $485 million and the extra yesterday has increased flexibility for the state to use more of that money is needed for naloxone. >> i'm only going to interrupt because i'm out of time. my question was bringing the price down. we're using taxpayer money to pay for these outrageous prices. the question was, something that was on the market for a dollar, and now are talking about these huge price increases. are you going to use the authority that the president's commission asked you to use to negotiate the best prices for americans and bring the price down? adm. giroir: the nasal narcan, which is increasingly the choice reversal agent for first res

. >> three term democratic senator debbie stabenow might be facing the race of her life. republican candidates are hoping to carry the momentum of president trump's 2016 win in the wolverine state into the mid terms. >> when i go around to churches and i ask people, they really, if they know her, they really can't say what they have gotten for their vote in the past 20 years. >> good to see you again. >> at a meet and greet outside of detroit, combat veteran and businessman john james shakes hands with voters he knows will help him unseat stab now. >> i was given the honor -- >> -- james, a west point graduate and pilot says he felt compelled to run for office after returning to michigan from overseas. >> there were areas in pontiac, in flint, in detroit, areas of home that looked worse than the combat zone i was flying in. >> the veteran supports the trump agenda and says his background gives him a unique perspective. >> understanding national security, how to keep americans safe because i have done it before. >> 61-year-old detroit business man and harvard graduate penc

stabenow: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, today i rise to talk about an issue that is extremely important to my state of michigan. in michigan, we take great pride in the fact that we're never more than six miles from a body of water or more than 85 miles from one of our incredibly amazing great lakes. in fact, one out of five jobs in michigan is in some ways tied to the water. so this is really about who we are. it's in our d.n.a. in michigan when we talk about the great lakes. and in terms of the country, it's important for all of us to care about the great lakes because 95% -- 95% of the surface fresh water in the united states is in the great lakes. 20% of the world's fresh water, but 95% of our fresh water in the united states is surrounding the great lakes. so we are always, through our great lakes traffic force and our working together, all of the senators and the house around the great lakes have a special responsibility to step up and protect them. but we all should care because of the incredible natural r

secretary spencer i joined my colleague senator baldwin stabenow and johnson as well as number of houseembers from michigan including speaker ryan sending you a letter on acquisition strategy for fiscal years 18 and 19. while i'm concerned under the current acquisition strategy the navy may be missing out on accounting for differences in capabilities surface life and total lifestyle costs. given the transition from lcs to the competition were new frigate decisions made today will impact the ship building industrial base for years to come as well as impact the navy's ability to grow into the fleet size that it needs in an affordable and timely way. alternating contracting strategies awarding two shifts to one shipyard in one ship to the other and alternating years which the shipyards have optimized for print my question mr. secretary as i look forward to your response and certainly to the letter but in the meantime could you please provide an update on lcs acquisition strategy and specific way across 18 or 19. >> senator i have said this before and i just want to highlight it. one of my

markey: we have been joined by debbie stabenow, patrick , but here to tell you just a little story -- last year, i had an idea for a bill. i shared it with our next speaker, united states senator. createa bill the technologies to detect fentanyl before it reached the borders of our country. 75% of all opioid deaths have fentanyl in the bloodstream of those the him's. for 10 minutes in his office, we spoke about the issue. and then, for the next 50 minutes, we talked about robert f kennedy, his knowledge of robert f kennedy, and john kennedy and ted kennedy was enormous. ability to relate the message of robert f kennedy to today was powerful and deep. today isessage something that i think reflects to the american people his ability to understand what robert f kennedy was trying to signal to our country. i give you, my friends, the great congressman of the state of florida, marco rubio. [applause] rubio: thank you. i am honored to be here. 1956.ents arrived in they did not become citizens until 1976. but my mother tells me she was an american well before she was a citizen. i remember as

we've been joined by senator debbie stabenow from michigan, senator sheldon whitehouse from rhode island, senator patrick leahy from vermont. but i'm going to tell you just a little story. last year i had an idea for a bill, and i shared it with our next speaker, united states senator. it was a bill to create technologies that could detect fentanyl before it reached the borders of our country. 75% of all the opioid deaths now have fentanyl in the bloodstream of those victims. so for ten minutes in his office, we spoke about that issue. and then for the next 50 minutes, we talked about robert f. kennedy, his knowledge of robert f. kennedy and john kennedy and ted kennedy was enormous. his ability to relate the message of robert f. kennedy to today was powerful and deep, and his message today is something that i think reflects to the american people his ability to understand what robert f. kennedy was trying to signal to our country. i give you my friend, the great congressman from the state of florida, marco rubio. [ applause ] >> thank you. and i'm honored to be here. a personal story, m

we're obviously going to be working with chairman roberts and senator stabenow, the ranking democratic leader. this is long, long overdue. as you noted, we've got bipartisan supporters, and we are going to pull out all the stops to get this legislation passed. and i think i mentioned to the majority leader that those who have been involved in this effort -- and it's been a really impressive coalition of farmers and health advocates and others. they're watching the senate this morning because they're saying the senate has finally come to understand what is relevant for this century. the policies that have been so flawed in the past are sort of outdated relics to yesteryear, and i'm pleased that senator merkley and i can join you and senator paul. we'll have colleagues on both sides involved in this legislation. it is long overdue. i want to thank the leader and i'll yield back the balance of my time. mr. mcconnell: i want to thank my friend from oregon. i think this is a great project we can work on together. during the recent break i met with a lot of farmers in kentucky, and i thought