the bill directs the d.h.s. undersecretary for intelligence and analysis in coordination with federal partners to develop and sis semi-- disseminate a threat assessment regarding the actual threat posed by individuals using virtual currencies in furtherance of an act of terrorism including provision of material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. it also directs the undersecretary to share this threat assessment with state, local and tribal law enforcement officials through the national network of fusion centers. as the threat of terrorism evolves, so do the methods to find the actors who plot to athk the united states. the federal government must evolve as well to meet these novel and technologically based challenges. this bill supports methods that have been utilized and to prepare for those that are soon to follow. this measure was considered by the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and included in the committee on homeland security's d.h.s. authorization bill which passe

the sponsor of this bill, mrs. comstock, and i both represent northern virginia and she and i both want to eliminate gang violence. ms-13 is a menace to society, and i endorse the goal of destroying it through legal means. this bill wouldn't do that. this bill would promote widespread racial profiling. it will violate first amendment protections. it will expand mandatory detention of immigrants. it will raise serious constitutional questions and reveal of certain groups, and it judicially bars humanitarian relief for individuals in violation of international treaties. gang, violence and ms-13, i take seriously. the young man mrs. comstock referred to found dead in a park in my city of alexandria was found by a dear family friend. but we can do this in a bill that doesn't promote racial profiling or violate the constitution. so in this motion to recommit, we offer language to get at one of the most glaring flaws in this bill, that it can go after humanitarian workers. the criminal alien gang member removal act create

the bill given the goodlatte amendment does not say. a person need not have been convicted or charged with a crime to be deportable under this bill. and even when they are in removal proceedings, they would not be permitted to challenge the gang designation that landed them in those proceedings. thus we'll have people deported on a basis of unfair and secret process with no notice and no meaningful opportunity to contest the basis for the deportation. that turns due process completely on its head. keeping out members of ms-13 and other deadly gangs is a worthy goal, but this bill would not do that. it would have disastrous consequences for thousands of people each year who may or may not be members of a gang, may or may not have evidence against them, and be caught up in its procedures. mr. speaker, just last week president trump upended the lives of 800,000 dreamers who of face the possibility being draggedway from the only country they know. our highest priority should be providing these young undocumented americans the legal status th

we accept the principle that a bill like this is required, but this is the wrong bill. nd therefore, i think, outside of the debate is prevailing, deceiving. the fact is it did not prevail. we know what the result was. and is that the great repeal bill has been passed by quite a significant majority. theresa may has given her response. we're just us has given her response. we're just us through now. the parliamentary vote m ea ns us through now. the parliamentary vote means we can " move on with negotiations solid foundations" — thatis negotiations solid foundations" — that is to me is that —— mr ismay‘s reaction. she says that it means that the parliamentary vote means that the parliamentary vote means that " britain can move forward on negotiations with solid foundations". —— that is theresa may's ration. we hearing about the henry viii clauses. these are the controversies surrounding this bill. it is based on the former king who knew a few things about taking back control from europe. this is all about what are known as henry viii clauses, named after the statue publi

but back to the eu withdrawal bill. st day of the debate began on thursday, the brexit secretary sought to reassure mps about its aim. put simply — this bill is an essential step. whilst it does not take us out of the european union, that's a matter for the article 50 process, it does ensure that on the day we leave, businesses know where they stand, workers' rights are upheld and consumers remain protected. this bill is vital to ensuring that as we leave, we do so in an orderly manner. let me be clear, this bill does only what is necessary for a smooth exit. and to provide stability. that we are leaving is settled. how we leave is not. this bill invites us to surrender all power and influence over that question to the government and to ministers. that will betray everything we were sent here to do. we have got to make sure, madame deputy speaker, that on the day of exit, the statute book in this country works and frankly, the only way we can achieve it in the timescale with which we're constrained and which is set out i

the labor hhs bill has more money in it than anything else we do, except the defense bill. not only on the committee, but he brings that wisdom he's noted for to this committee as vice chairman and he also serves on the budget committee and is one of the leading voices in that committee. frankly, i don't know when he sleeps and i'm a bit worried about him because he does so much and is such an sbi cal part of this process and somebody we all turn to for advice late at night. so i thank the gentle man. >> if it ever cuts into my cigar smoking time with you, i'll reconsider the burden. with that i yield back. >> thank you very much. i want to join with you. i have engaged the gentleman as he wears his other hat and have found not only his desire to listen but also to tame appropriately a number of times. in particular, he is helping the national eye institute. the national eye institution is attempting to not only build an i, which is difficult, but the doctor that's out there, our director, they are -- they are really working with tom, myself for sure, on this important proce

the bill must provide for this. overeignty to parliament and secure certainty post—brexit, but that isn't the case. it transfers huge powers to ministers, not to members of the house, over issues vital to people's lives, such as maternity and paternity leave, holidays, environmental standards and a range of other issues. i fear that the bill could increase uncertainty, including the likelihood of legal challenge and judicial review, because the powers in it are so broadly drawn. but a conservative didn't believe the legislation was as "dramatic" as some were making out. we have got to make sure that on the day of exit, the statute book in this country works and the only way that we can achieve that in the timescale with which we are constrained and which are set out in article 50 is to have a flexible, pragmatic system such as the system that is laid out in the draft bill. you can love parliament and want to jealously guard its rights and privileges created by our predecessors, but still show pragmatism in the nation

then mps will get to debate the bill and a few other technical issues to do with the bill. go through to those other stages, that is when it could get particularly sticky for the government, isn't it? it is interesting that we had interventions at the very end, they are, from effectively to lawyers, dominic grieve, and kenneth clarke. they tried to pass the meaning, literally, of these potential landmarks in the henry at the to get out of assurances that this is not what the labour party says it is, a power grab. —— henry viii clauses to get out of. indeed. mps will go on to debate this bill practically line by line and get the opportunity to put forward their own changes. the night, when the voting finishes, there will be a big rush towards the officials at the table, where mps will want to start putting down amendments straightaway, so that when they get to debate the details about a month's time. we've had a long debate on the first debate on this bill. we had all day thursday and we have had all day today, with and we have had all day today, with a specially extended day

rules committee also considered the bill. so let's take each of those concerns in turn. some may say this is an old, failed policy. in reality this policy has a long track record of success. in 2015, the social security inspector general said in a hearing that this bill would stop hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to individuals with felony warrants. some may say this bill targets people without dated warrants. in reality, s.s.a. already has a wide authority to exempt individuals if the alleged offense is nonviolent and not drug related. some may say this bill would throw beneficiaries off the rolls with no warning. in reality, s.s.a. provides beneficiaries advanced notice of 35 days before suspending s.s.i. benefits, and there is a robust appeal process for recipients who have had their benefits suspended. some may say that this policy is burdensome to law enforcement. in reality, this bill is supported by the fraternal order of police, the national sheriff's association and the south dakota sheriff's association be

back to the eu withdrawal bill. day of the debate began on thursday, the brexit secretary sought to reassure mps. put simply, this bill is an essential step. while it does not take us out of the eu” while it does not take us out of the eu,, that is article 50, it make sure we know where we stand, worker rights are upheld, and consumers are protected. this makes sure that as we leave we do so in an orderly manner. it does only what is necessary for a smooth exit and to provide stability. that we are leaving is settled. how we leave is not. this bill invites us to surrender all power and influence to the government and ministers. that will betray everything we were sent here to do. we have got to make sure that on the day of exit, the statute book works. frankly, the only way we can achieve it in the time scale with which we are constrained, and which is set out in article 50, is to have a flexible, pragmatic system such as the system that is laid out in the draft bill. if you look at the amendments put forward, there

and the republican omnibus bill. i want to stress, mr. chairman, however, that i am heart ed as i imagine -- heartened as i imagine every member of this body is heartened by the bipartisan cooperation we have been able to muster to reach out to our neighbors in texas and louisiana who have sbon devastated. and it's the -- who have been so devastated. and it's the same kind of solidarity and cooperation i know we will muster, whatever the verdict is after irma reaches our shores. and we anticipate that with a great deal of concern and app reheng. we do have a history -- apprehension. we do have a history in this body of pulling together when it matters for our neighbors, whenever disasters strike. the kind of cooperation is absolutely essential to who we are as a country and who we are as an institution. and i want to urge that we bring that same spirit of cooperation, that same understanding of the historic cooperation that has characterized appropriations. after all, this is the power of the purse. this is our main i

the hhs bill has more money in it than anything else we do accepted that the defense bill. not only on the committee, but he brings the wisdom he is noted for her to this committee and he also serves on the budget committee and is one of the many voices on that committee. frankly i don't know when he sleeps. and i'm a little bit worried about him because he does so much into such an integral part of this process and so many that we all turned to for advice. i thank the gentleman. >> i promise this, mr. chairman if it ever comes to my cigar smoking time he will reconsider it. but that'll yield, mr. chairman. >> i want to join with you. i have engaged the gentleman as he wears his other hat so to speak as the appropriations subcommittee chair for really nih and have found not onlyhis desire to ascend, but also to name appropriate number of times in particular the national eye institute. the national eye institute is attempting to not only build and i, which is difficult but dealing with the receptor cell issue. dr. paul was out there, dr. francis collins is our director. they

today we're debating this bill on the floor. this is how congress is supposed to work and this bill is an example of congress getting its work done. the mci have program helps support state -- the miechv program helps support state programs to parents and children living in communities that put them at risk of poor social and health outcomes. including in rural areas like those i represent. and unlike many other programs that focus on money spent or people served, this program focuses on achieving real results for families. specifically, this program promotes school readiness of young children, increasing economic self-sufficiency of families, improves prenatal health and birth outcomes and prevents childhood abuse and neglect. the chair: the committee will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. mr. smith: thank you. i have had the opportunity to see firsthand what home visiting looks like. in march i spent time in nebraska with a public health district's healthy families america program in western nebraska. t

there are too many in the bill. prevent transparency and accountability in our finance system, infringe upon ability for women to make personal health care decisions and block the district of columbia from using local funds to make local decisions. thank you and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you very much. >> welcome. you are normally on this side. as i and other members of the committee recognize that you have an important role to play not only for this conference and the congress, but you have an important role to the agencies including the nih that you spend time not only to understand to develop their the ithinking and provide clear pathways, tom i have served with you for a number of years. i know that you serve two masters. you do a heck of a job for this conference and i am pleased to call you a colleague and given the time that he needs to explain his bill that is quite honestly in my opinion something that will last, have lasting impact on the health of this nation. >> thank you for those except

no hearings year of the gramm cassidy bill. is the same legislative process that ultimately brought the previous bill down. 11 with a hearing on block grants and homeland securityen m with over health care matters doesn't even come close to suggesting regular order. those that thought there was a ray of light the partisanship that govern this place that seems to be breaking and hope of working together senators alexander and marie talk about how to t move forward. if the majority leader in dire getting together very well. so there is a way out. and that they are negotiating at this moment. to and that is the of legislative process. has of how that affects people.d or how many people would these coverture be affected. grt it could be weeks for the block grant. so after two weeks to think that flickering candle may need some new light this is the last thing that we need. what the leaders and i talk to each other. to pursue that path like senators alexander. i ask every american who hears these words call your senators and congress

there are too many in the bill. prevent transparency and accountability in our finance system, infringe upon ability for women to make personal health care decisions and block the district of columbia from using local funds to make local decisions. thank you and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you very much. >> welcome. you are normally on this side. as i and other members of the committee recognize that you have an important role to play not only for this conference and the congress, but you have an important role to the agencies including that you spend time not only to understand to develop their thinking and pathways.ear tom, i have served with you for a number of years. i know that you serve two masters. you do a heck of a job for this conference and i am pleased to call you a colleague and given the time that he needs to explain his bill that is quite honestly in my opinion something that will last, have lasting impact on the health of this nation. >> thank you for those exceptionally generous and gr

the night. earlier today members approved disaster bill. the house passed its own version of the bill yesterday. senators added a debt ceiling increase in a temporary's federal spending measure they keeps the bill open to decembe december 8. follow the senate live on c-span two a members gavel back in on monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> kelly is appropriations budget reporter for cq roll call. the spending package covers two thirds of the federal government for 2018. why did house leaders choose this route instead of an individual approach with the eight remaining appropriations bill? >> there's very little time for lawmakers to enact the spending bill before the fiscal year begins on october 1. we are in the tail end of 2017. there has been a goal in the republican conference to pass all 12 bills funding the government before the fiscal year begins. given there's less than 12 legislative days before the start of the fiscal year, the only way to clear through those on the floor and process the mouth amendments, clearly according to republican

we will have more on the great repeal bill. seven degrees. then we are often running into choosing. of the original high pressure will be trained to come in from the atlantic, at least for a time, it tending to kill off some of the showers, at least. eastern areas are holding onto the sunshine at west. the cloud will feel in and eventually there will be a lot of rain moving into northern ireland, initially. this is all tied up with what we suspect will be a very vigorous area of low pressure, throwing the rain and further towards the north and east. that is on the part of the story. the rain is heavy enough in its own right, but it is the strength of when they could well cause significant disruptions as we get on through tuesday and into the first part of wednesday. they are really from the southern part of scotland through east of northern ireland and across england and wales will be looking at some pretty strong gusts. some were in there, there could be a core of winds that seas gusts get up to 75 mph. asa winds that seas gust

it began life in a prime ministerial speech as the great repeal bill then it became simply the repeal union withdraw bell. here is where it will end up with all the other violence scrolls in the houses of parliament going back centuries. what does it do? it is a complex mix of constitutional change and legal continuity. firstly it repeals the 1972 european community ‘s act that took the uk into what was then known as the european economic community. the repeal will come into effect on the day of brexit which until anyone decides otherwise will be march 29 2019. secondly the bill will tra nsfer 2019. secondly the bill will transfer eu rules and regulations wholesale into uk law to avoid legal and financial chaos when we leave. we are talking about an estimated 19,000 separate pieces of legislation, a vast body of law that has developed over more than 40 yea rs. has developed over more than 40 years. a new category of domestic law will be created called retained eu law. after brexit any of it could then be amended or repealed by the uk parliament. 30 and perhaps most co ntroversially, u

the bill given the goodlatte amendment does not say. a person need not have been convicted or charged with a crime to be deportable under this bill. and even when they are in removal proceedings, they would not be permitted to challenge the gang designation that landed them in those proceedings. thus we'll have people deported on a basis of unfair and secret process with no notice and no meaningful opportunity to contest the basis for the deportation. that turns due process completely on its head. keeping out members of ms-13 and other deadly gangs is a worthy goal, but this bill would not do that. it would have disastrous consequences for thousands of people each year who may or may not be members of a gang, may or may not have evidence against them, and be caught up in its procedures. mr. speaker, just last week president trump upended the lives of 800,000 dreamers who of face the possibility being draggedway from the only country they know. our highest priority should be providing these young undocumented americans the legal status th

the bill, as amended, shall be onsidered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment under the five-minute rule and shall be considered as read. points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, for failure to comply with clause 2 or clause 5-a of rule 21 are waived except as follows -- beginning with the colon on page 327, line 22, through "crime" on page 328, line 2, beginning with the emicolon on page 535, line 12, through "12 united states code 3907-b-2." on page 536, line 14, and section 7080. where points of order are waived against part of a section, points of order against a provision in another part of such section may be made only against such provision and not against the entire section. section 2-a, no further amendment to the bill shall be in order except those printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution, and pro forma amendments described in section 4 of this resolution. b, each further amendment rinted in part b of the report of the committee on

labour say the bill gives the government too much power. that we are leaving is settled. will betray everything we were sent here to do. aid workers in bangladesh say the number of rohingya muslims pouring across the border continues to rise, amidst ongoing violence in myanmar. and the duke of cambridge has dropped prince george off for his first day at school in south london. his mother, the duchess, was too ill to go with them this morning. time for the sport with will perry. england‘s bowlers have taken control on the opening day of the third and deciding test against west indies at lords. the tourists put themselves into bat this morning and found themselves under pressure quickly — james anderson took the first two wickets meaning he‘s nowjust one away from becoming the first englishman to take 500 in test cricket. ben stokes has rattled through the windies order this afternoon — he took two wickets in an over, three in total. at tea, the windies are 119 for seven. premier league clubs have voted in favour of amending the summer transfer window. starting next season

last thursday's debate on the bill was only the first half.he debate provided the second half. first half. eight more hours on the debate provided the second halfm i have an opportunity to support a government bill that says european union withdrawal bill, i am going to support it tonight and i hope other members do. because what it does, it ends the european union legislation and control over this house when we leave. and that's what it primarily does. cutting and pasting laws from the eu statute book into the uk one simply isn't enough because laws are only as effective as the mechanisms to enforce them into practice. in the absence of mechanisms to replace the absence of mechanisms to replace the monitoring and enforcement roles we re the monitoring and enforcement roles were effectively going to be left with zombie legislation. it might be on the statute book but it is not enforcea ble. on the statute book but it is not enforceable. a vote against this bill is a terrible disappointment and actually i don't really take the vote against this

tell them that this bill is even worse than the previous bill. tell them it hurts average families dramatically. tell them there's a better way. the same level of activism that we saw on the previous bills must be garnered now or they will just slide through in the dark of night. its effect, devastating and unknown. madam president, democrats in the senate, we have no choice. our constituencies, our consciences compel us. we will oppose cassidy-graham in every way we can using every tool at our disposal. we ask the american people to speak out once again to make their voices heard. the hour is late. the need is desperate. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the

the governor has come out in support of this bill. nd paul rejects the taxes, but when you look at the bill, we save a lot of time on medicaid and put a cap on obamacare growth to make it more affordable and flexible. so i think senator paul. >>s associated -- so i think senator paul's associated health plan married with our tail would really great. i am excited that we have found -- an alternative to obamacare that really makes sense. to take the money that we would have spent on obamacare and given it to the states. because if you keep replicating obamacare even at the state level you will get the same outcome. where are you? >> yes or no? jigs, it is very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill come a jake. bill, jake.r this the impact on the medicaid program, which has been on the books for more than 50 years or more and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens including disabled children and of low income seniors, i am concerned about the impact on that. also the impact on cost

doesn't matter what's in the bill. the republicans haven't been able to pass anything because they've given the right wing of their party veto over every issue because they're unwilling to deal with the democrats. and so, that's why they're stuck with no legislation and we are stuck confronting this health care horror show if this bill ever passed. >> you know, neera, one person that cares about the policy is rand paul believing that the federal government to withdraw entirely from assisting with health care and being honest about the fact of no one getting help at all. people like mccain upset about process. murkowski and others are concerned about their states and legitimate. you helped write this affordable care act. at the time, it is closer to the bob dole rebuttal to hillary care than it is -- are you as shocked as i am that the republican party is devolved to the point it's just about handing cash to donors and nothing about policy? >> i mean, when's insane about this proposal, this legislation, is it is the most

>> nope. >> the bill attracted opposition from all corners of the health care industry as well as from comedian jimmy kimmel who bill cassidy hoped to win over. >> he lied right to my face. coverage for all, no. it will take about 30 million americans off of insurance. pre-existing conditions, nope. >> realizing that repeal and replace is doomed, the president turned his base's attention to other targets lashing out at nfl players that protest in the national naal anthem. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners, when someone disrespects our flag, get that son of a bitch off of the field right now, he is fired. >> nba star lebron james weighed in calling the president a bum. >> we know how much sports brings us together. the passion, the love, the care, the friendships and everything that it creates. for him to try to use this plasform to devise us even more is not something i can stand for or be quiet about. >> joining me now is republican senator rand paul of kentucky, welcome back to "meet the press. >> i want to start with the president to did start with president mccain

the clerk: union calendar number 205. h.r. 1843. a bill to amend title 31, united states code, to prohibit the internal revenue service from carrying out seizures relating to a structuring transaction unless the property to be seized devived -- derived from the legal source or funds were structured for the purpose of concealing violation of another criminal law or regulation, to require notice and a postseizure hearing for such seizures, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from illinois, mr. roskam, and the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neal, each will -- mr. neal, will each control 20 minutes. mr. roskam: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material for h.r. 1843 curnedly under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. roskam: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such

the graham/cassidy bill leaves that issues to the states. some states surely continue to require coverage for pre-existing conditions and some states would not. and any state could drop that coverage at any time. there would be no federal guarantee left. tonight, the president tweeted, i would not sign graham/cassidy if it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. it does. a great bill. repeal and replace. one thing all republicans have agreed on in their leaks to the press about their discussions with the president on health care is that he does not have any idea what is in any of the health care legislation that's been considered by the congress this year. today, president obama said this. >> when i see people trying to undo that hard won progress for the 50th or 60th time, with bills that would raise costs or reduce coverage, or roll back protections for older americans or people with pre-existing conditions, the cancer survivor, the expecting mom or the child with autism, or asthma, for whom coverage once again would be almost

as to the opposition of this bill. the ranking member every major insurance company opposes art bill why because we take hundreds of billions of dollars away from them that we were going to them from the federal government and give it to the states. guess what they don't like that. if i were a major insurance company i would hate my bill because that takes money and power away from you and i give it to the states. washington is wired when it comes to health care and everyone opposing this bill is a big winner of obamacare and my goal is to get the money and power out of washington closer to where people live so they will have a voice about the most important thing in their life. i don't need a lecture from anybody about healthcare but what you have created is not working and it's time to try something new and i believe with all my heart and soul that if we took the money and power out of washington and got closer to the patient and we put in the hands of somebody you would have a relationship with and you could actuall

>> i have always been a yes for repeal, but the bill unfortunately, the graham/cassidy bill keeps most of the obamacare spending, almost all of it and just reshuffling it and block grants it to the states. i don't think block granting it makes it go away, it just makes the money you're spending still in obama care. reshuffle it, take the money from democrat states and giving it to republican states. it sets up a food fight over the formula. what happens when the democrats win? they are going to try to claw back that money. this is a bad idea, not repeal. however, all that being said, if they narrow the focus to all the things we agree on, expanding health savings account, giving more freedom through waivers, slowing down the rate of growth of an outrageous entitlement spending, sure, i would be for that, but just not for this block granding concept because it is affirmative that i have agreed to keep obama care. >> if you can't accept the block grant concept, then you will never support this bill. is that fair to say? that's the centerpiece of the bill. >> they could remove it and then

, the f.a.a. bill, contains a lot of important provisions that our constituents are crying out for. among them, airplane noise which is ruining communities across the united states, and study of the health impact of that noise. as important as daca, which we should pass and i think could pass and other provisions which would pass on regular order. this bill the f.a.a. re-authorization bill is not the bill to fool around with. we've had too many near-misses by letting that -- these short-term extensions pile up. pass a straight f.a.a. re-authorization bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i want to thank the gentlelady from new york for her leadership. i thank my fellow texans on this effort. i'm not on transportation but i do believe the f.a.a. should have this extension and i do bel

make people read the bill. make people discuss it. nd out what's in it. >> and, andy, one thing that the democrats are demanding is a full cbo score of this bill. chairman orrin hatch is scheduling a hearing on the bill next week and that seems to be the finance committee's nod to john mccain's demand for regular order but that's not regular order for a bill like this. the senate finance committee had 24 hearings as i recall when we were considering the clinton health care bill. and then almost as many hearings and meetings at least over the obamacare. >> well, this has all the features of a rush job. so the republicans are now prepared to bring it to the bill without a full cbo score. the cbo said they cannot score it in the time frame jennifer laid out. we also know that this hearing you're talking about is a rush together kind of hearing, a show hearing, hoeping that that can get mccain to check the box and we heard woshd tonight, not just reported, the great work of lamar alexander with patty murray an they put a stop to that bill

the bill is passed. mr. cornyn: i ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: i understand there is a bill at the desk and i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 3354, an act for department of interior for fiscal year 2018 and for other purposes. mr. cornyn: i now ask for a second reading and in order to get the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar and read on the next legislative session. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., wednesday, septembeg the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserve

it almost says we don't care what's in the bill, we just want to have a bill. if they cared about what it meant they couldn't possibly do that but it's philosophical. it's antigovernment and that's where they find their common ground. hopefully it won't go anyplace in the senate. but as mentioned earlier many people are terribly affected by this come i don't see how, i don't see how they could vote for it. but you know the thing that they have to have a deal and the one overturn affordable character. let's just say that i hope when this is defeated and i hope that will be soon that the president will be going forward in a bipartisan way, hopefully that will continue once they see the graham cassidy bill. >> to have any regrets about striking the debt to that may have open up room on the senate floor? >> note into that, white to say that? >> they talk about the cr and the debt limit and that this would come down to a deadline, was quit on the first week. >> no, in fact it gives us an opening that's why they were opposed to it it isn't that at all. three months wi

the omnibus bill continues down a partisan path. the important programs in the interior environment bill suffer from a low 302 b allocation which is devised by the majority in a pros that was neither open or transparent. the subcommittee's allocation is $824 million less than last year's enacted level. a cut of this magnitude short changes the protection of our nation's natural and cultural resources and has real consequences for american families and communities. adequate funding for the interior environment division is at a critical time when the trump administration is attacking science behind climate change, rolling back regulations to protect clean air and water, and even halting health studies that examine whether some mining practices harm nearby communities. we are at a defining moment in history. our actions to combat climate change now will impact the world that we pass on to our children and grandchildren. we cannot afford to disregard the over welcoming sb tisk evidence that the planet is warm. sea levels are rising and g

of the 1996 welfare law. a bill that got bipartisan support. there was a recognition that this program was not doing as well as it could be and there were innovations at the state level that could be replicated and done better. to care for people better, to get people off of welfare. that we should not measure the success of welfare as to how but howple were on it we transitioned people and get to work and lower poverty rates. i am on the obamacare exchange. and i pay around $30,000 year for our policy. i do not know how families do that. that it is idea affordable is ridiculous. it is not affordable. it came forward based on the information i had, experience in what -- working on welfare that suggests we can do the same. i did when i was on the , i had nined before people in my office that i hired who were former welfare recipients. the primary purpose here is to make sure we have a system that works well for america and the hysteria that is being developed here on a bill that, candidly, is modest in its reductions

bill. the latest version of trumpcare may live under a new name, graham-cassidy, no matter how many ways they try to dress it up, hide it, it is more dangerous and reckless. it is more dangerous than the previous bill. trumpcare is a sham. crafting in the dark of night. say one hearing on one day, without a cbo score and only two witnesses, against the bill, that is a hearing? that is a full airing of the bill? come on. they're ashamed of this bill. they're afraid to find out what it actually does. and so. we get another bill in the dark of night. . they don't want that. they don't want to tell middle class families in suburbs that mom or dad in the nursing home may no longer get coverage. they don't want to tell a 23-year-old young man who desperately needs opioid treatment that it may go away. this isn't simply making a decision at the state. they make the cuts here in washington that hurt average people and then tell the states to figure out who to cut. this is not a neutral bill that simply

their parts of the bill i like. the expansion of health savings accounts, the waivers for governors, and we have to cap spending because we are broke. if they put those three things together, i am for it. i also continue to pursue an alternative to graham cassidy. i think my alternative works better and it cost zero federal dollars. my alternative is to let individuals come together in a group, by entrance across state lines, and by group health association entrance. i have talked to the president multiple times and the secretary of labor. he assured me they can do this by executive action. by reinterpreting existing statutes. we don't need congress. it we do those things we do a lot. i do not think we should give up. accounts, governors waivers, put caps on titles we can agree to and let people buy insurance across state lines to help associations. those four things went significantly alter the equation of what we have now and it would be a big help. i've yet to find a democrat, not wind up dead in the senate has co