it's a key part of trumpcare. it's another key part of what miss verma will be in charge of implementing. the bill would give health insurance companies the green light to charge older people five times as much as they charge younger people. mr. wyden: so if you are a person of modest means, a few years away from qualifying for medicare, and your insurance premiums jump by $8,000, that means you're just out of luck. you're going to be locked out of the system. you're basically going to have to hope that you just don't get sick before you're eligible for medicare. and those tax credits that you hear so much about from trumpcare advocates, they aren't going to be of much consolation to you. that's because trumpcare puts a hard cap on your tax credit as an older person, just $4,000, and the odds are good that it wouldn't come close to covering the expense of a decent insurance plan. now i'm going to turn to medicaid because trumpcare doesn't just make little changes around the margins. doesn't strengthen or preserve

what is trumpcare? trumpcare simply put is a mess that gives you less for more and trumpcare doesn't discriminate against which americans it hurts. are you a millennial? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you a senior? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage? raw wom are you a woman? >> trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you or someone in your family living with a disability? tru trumare means higher cost and less coverage. trumpcare is a tax break for the rich and not health care motivation. it's to take people whose income is above $250,000 and give them an average tax break, to take the top .01% and give them a tax break of $200,000 while making these people pay more. it horrible. president trump has talked about helping working america, but the plan he has embraced, trumpcare, helps the rich and hurts the average american, and that's not surprising given all the other things his administration is doing. his administration has developed a pattern, health care

trumpcare puts that in danger. so i have talked about what it means for older people, and what it means for the disabled, and what it means for kids, and i'm just going to keep on going, mr. president, because now that we have the hard numbers in, the hard numbers have arrived in real-time from the budget office. it is charged with giving us this analysis. it's important to talk about what it means because budgets are not just facts and figures sheets of paper. they are about your aspirations and hopes and aspirations that i have had since those days when i was director of the oregon gray panthers was to make sure that quality,ve affordable , decent health care choices because in america, if you don't have your health, you are really missing much of what makes life so special in our country. so the bill also takes an enormous toll in other areas. i want to mention next opioid abuse. lashing medicaid, trump care will make america's epidemic of prescription drug abuse related deaths even worse. families were losing m

trumpcare is finally available to the public. and democrats, a growing number of conservatives and millions of americans don't like what they see and for a whole host of reasons. first, trumpcare means higher costs for less health care, plain and simple. it means higher costs because the tax credits are far less generous than under the affordable care act. it means less health care and capped, insurance companies can provide less coverage and second, trumpcare cuts taxes on the very wealthy while forcing average americans to pay more. premiums are going to go up. but americans making over $250,000 will get a big tax break. it could average as much as $200,000 because it's an average and the high end pulls it up and then insurance companies making over $500,000 will get a tax cut. this is a tax cut for the wealthy with some health insurance provisions tacked alongside of it. third, trumpcare raises costs on older americans and provides less assistance to help them afford the care they need. seniors could be stuck with only $4,000

simply put, trumpcare is a mess

simply put trumpcare is a mess , for the american people. we democrats will fight it tooth and nail. senator murray? senator murray: there is a lot that could be said about how this legislation is one big broken promise that i want to focus on what it would mean for women. as someone who has fought time and time again to make sure women are able to make their own health care decisions, i have seen a lot very harmful and backwards efforts, but this trumpcare bill could not be more which --example of a list -- it be a more complete example of a wish list written for and by extreme politicians who want to attack women's health. to start, it would cut off the health services the millions of women and men get from planned parenthood. some republicans may claim that other providers can just simply pick up the slack. the medical experts call that idea ludicrous. taking away access to care at planned parenthood means millions fewer people get std tests, cancer screenings, and other basic primary care each year. those are the facts. trumpcare also sl

we call it trumpcare. and trumpcare will take away health care from 24 million hard-working americans. that's not acceptable. why shouldn't we be working together to improve obamacare? why do we need a new plan that will ensure 24 million less people than we insure now. it makes no sense whatsoever. we also feel when we analyze it and this is what the congressional budget office tells us, there are higher costs. for trumpcare forces families to pay increased out of pocket costs and higher deductibles. what does that all mean? that means you pay more and you get less. that's a pretty bad deal. i don't think anybody wants that deal. i think democrats and republicans alike don't want that deal. i think americans don't want that deal. we want the opposite way. we want to pay less and get coverage. what trumpcare does to the affordable care act, you pay more and you get less. that wasn't bad enough, an analysis finds there is a crushing age tax. it forces americans between the ges of 50 to 64 to pay premiums fi

trumpcare ends that guarantee. you could have state programs forced into slashing nursing home budgets. you could see nursing homes shut down and the lives of older people uprooted. we could, in my view, have our grandparents that are depending on this kind of benefit get nickeled and dimed for the basics in home care that they've relied on. when it comes to medicaid, trumpcare effectively ends the program as it exists today, shredding the health care safety net in america. and it doesn't only affect older people in nursing homes. it puts an expiration date, a time stamp on the medicaid coverage that millions of americans got through the affordable care act. for many of those vulnerable persons, it was the first time they had health insurance. so what trumpcare is going to come along and do is put a cap on that medicaid budget and just squeeze them down until vulnerable persons' health care is at risk. as low-income americans lose their coverage through medicaid, it is a good bet that the only trumpcare plans they'

what else does the trumpcare do? in fact, it cuts the taxes for the wealthy, and it shifts the financial burden of the health care more to the poor. it would allow insurance companies to charge seniors up to five times more than younger americans. now, the existing law, the a.c.a., in fact has age done in three groups. you can only charge an older person on their premiums according to their age three times more than you can charge a younger person. under trumpcare out of the house of representatives, they'll be able to charge seniors five times more than young people in their health insurance premiums. it would scrap medicaid expansion and fundamentally change the medicaid program. according to c.b.o., the republican house trumpcare bill will cut medicaid by $880 billion over ten years. you know, they're saying that it will reduce the deficit by some $330 billion over ten years. that's a good thing. but oh, by the way, it cuts medicaid by $880 billion over ten years. and it's my understanding that the capping of this

it's a key part of trumpcare. it's another key part of what miss verma will be in charge of implementing. the bill would give health insurance companies the green light to charge older people five times as much as they charge younger people. mr. wyden: so if you are a person of modest means, a few years away from qualifying for medicare, and your insurance premiums jump by $8,000, that means you're just out of luck. you're going to be locked out of the system. you're basically going to have to hope that you just don't get sick before you're eligible for medicare. and those tax credits that you hear so much about from trumpcare advocates, they aren't going to be of much consolation to you. that's because trumpcare puts a hard cap on your tax credit as an older person, just $4,000, and the odds are good that it wouldn't come close to covering the expense of a decent insurance plan. now i'm going to turn to medicaid because trumpcare doesn't just make little changes around the margins. doesn't strengthen or preserve

trumpcare ends coverage for 24 million people. trumpcare destroys two million jobs and imposes an age tax on older americans. and trumpcare cuts medicaid by $800 billion to give corporations and the wealthiest americans a $600 billion tax cut. the single largest transfer of wealth from working people to the rich in american history. this is wrong. the american people do not want this bill. they don't want to pay more for less. and donald trump promised he would be a great champion for the middle class. it only took him two months in office to break that promise and sell out to the wealthy and the special interest. shame on him and shame on anyone who votes to take away health coverage from working men and women to fund a big tax cut for folks who don't need it. the working people of this country deserve better. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one

trumpcare achieves the opposite. it's a bad deal and a threat to the well-being of the nation and our people. and beyond that, it is shameful and inhumane. i urge my colleagues to oppose trumpcare in its entirety and vote it down tomorrow. and i yield back. ms. jayapal: thank you so much, representative grijalva. and now i'm so proud to introduce my colleague from massachusetts, representative joe kennedy. and two weeks ago during the energy and commerce markup on trumpcare, you actually forced republican lawmakers to admit that the bill, their bill, trumpcare bill, would not guarantee essential health care benefits for the millions that are covered under medicaid expansion. and later you went on to give an incredibly compelling speech about this bill not being an act of mercy but being an act of malice. i hope now you are going to tell the american people exactly why you said what you did. mr. kennedy: i want to thank my colleague for adding your voice on such an important issue before our country today and for lead

under the house plan, trumpcare. that is a dramatic jump obviously and that is too much of an extreme example? i want to tell you what these people said. if you look at what the house is proposing, the dramatic rise in cost is due in large part to two provisions contained in the house bill. one that would allow insurers to charge older americans up to five times as much as younger people. this is health insurance. and another, the second one, the caps the federal tax credits meant to help seniors pay for the rising costs of health insurance. federal tax credits is a fancy way of saying the subsidy, so that if you are a senior and you are above 138% of poverty which is approximately a single individual, $16,000 a year and by the way, who, making $16,000 a year, can afford health insurance? that is why we need the remaining 19 states, my state of florida included, to expand medicaid up to the 138%, but if you are between that level and all the way up to 400% of poverty, which by the way, what is that for single individ

under trumpcare, this progress would evaporate and devastate hoosiers. if viceto wonder, president pence isn't looking out for his own state, who is he looking out for? we know who. the very wealthy in america. the 0.1% who gain the most from this bill. the trumpcare bill is not a health care bill, it is a reduce taxes on the top 1% bill. that is one of the many reasons that americans want it defeated. despite the desperate, last-minute, so-called tweaks and modifications, trumpcare will cause the american people to pay more for less care. house republicans should wake up. you should not walk the plank and take a vote to strip millions of americans of health care coverage. we should not ask senate republicans to walk the plank. instead, once and for all, the should work with us to improve the affordable care act and renounce repeal once and for all as well. with event, it is my honor to introduce our next speaker, greg will discuss, who the impact of trumpcare on rural hospitals. i want to say to my upstate new york republicans, thousands will lose their

under trumpcare, until you get to the upper incomes. and joining me now, senator bernie sanders chair of the senate democratic outreach committee. senator, i cannot help but obsess a bit over the fact that the demographic group that seems to take it on the chin the hardest are rural, older voters in their 60s, 55, 60, making $20,000 a year, precisely the kinds of folks that went so heavily for donald trump. >> well, that's right, chris. what the aarp has estimated that if you are 64 years of age and have an income of $25,000 a year, you're likely to pay up to $7,000 a year more under this trump plan, the republican plan, than you presently paid. and those are, in fact, many people in rural america who are struggling right now economically. i kind of think that when you look at what the republicans are doing, look at it not as a health care plan, because it really is not. look at it as a tax plan with $275 billion in tax breaks for the top 2%, people earning $250,000 a year or more. it's a massive transfer of wealth from working families

and put a dagger through the heart of trumpcare. [cheers and applause] now, if we can beat trumpcare and prevent it from passing, it will be as our former vice resident once said, a b.f.d. that was in an off-mike, he said it. look, no matter how you slice it, trumpcare is dangerous and would hurt aamericans in all 50 states. since we're joined here by our former vice president to mark the great seventh anniversary of the affordable care act, i thought we ought to see how trumpcare would affect the current vice president's home state. in seven years since the a.c.a. passed, the uninsured rate in the state of indiana has fallen 339,000 hoosiers gaining coverage. what are you going to say to them vice president pence? 224,000 hoosiers have health care insurance today because of indiana expanded medicaid coverage under the affordable care act. what are you going to say to them, mr. vice president? under trumpcare, this progress would evaporate and devastate hoosiers. so one has to wonder, if vice president pence isn't looking out for hi

under trumpcare premiums will increase. under trumpcare co-pays will increase. under trumpcare deductibles will increase. under trumpcare, out-of-pocket expenses will increase. under trumpcare, 24 million hardworking americans will lose their health coverage. under trumpcare, individuals between the age of 50 and 64 will pay a regressive age tax. health care is a matter of life and death. that is why we take it so seriously. and trumpcare will lead to increased death, disease, and destitution, and that's why we oppose this horrible piece of legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. black: thank you, mr. speaker. it's now my honor to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. arrington, who is a member of the budget committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. arrington: thank you, madam chair. obamacare's disastrous effects over the last several years have broken the backs of middle and working class families and have had a disproportionately negative impact on rural ameri

but in reality, trumpcare will do the opposite. trumpcare would end by 2020 the a.c.a.'s medicaid expansion that millions of people in our country depend on every day. they not only provide health care to millions of people for the first time but also helped to keep hospitals in rural and underserved communities from closing down. these rural communities -- hospitals exist all across the country. in its place, trumpcare would change how states receive medicaid funding, and it will do so in a way that ensures that these programs cannot keep pace with the rising cost of health insurance in their counties and in our country. and under this new system, states would have less money to spend on medicaid recipients and would face the proposed -- the prospect of tightening eligibility and slashing benefits. this would be particularly devastating in hawaii where we saw the number of people enrolled in medicaid grow by nearly 20% under the a.c.a. medicaid has been a transformative impact on tens of thousands of lives in hawaii and millions of others across the country. and from oa

trumpcare is a moral monstrosity that will devastate seniors. i talked about what they had been talking about in essential health benefits. now in order to get votes on the far, far right, they're looking at other entitlements, including title 1 in the affordable care act. these are some things we're very proud of that are in the affordable care act that they are now looking at this will all hurt america's working families and it's -- it's a remarkable thing. it's clear that this is not a health care bill. this is a tax bill. those in the gain middle class -- taking away from the middle class to the richest people of america. that will be taken away from them, those red areas. that money will probably go to blue areas. interesting, isn't it. all terrible. so in any case, i've told the republicans in the -- we worked for several hours in the rules committee last night, republicans vote to destroy health care coverage. especially in this brutal form. that vote is going to be tattooed to their heads. they can't say donald trump made me do it. he's

trumpcare will cost 1. million jobs, a less of ability to provide for yourself, your family, and prvide for your future. people will be paying more money for less quality care. deductibles and out of pocket expenses will skyrocket, leaving sick people unable to afford the care they need. and particularly as you mentioned, there'll be an age tax. older americans will pay more. their premiums will go up at a faster pace because they're allow to charge more based on their age. young people are also hurt. young people are hit with a millenial tax. ty put a 30% premium surcharge on tse re-enrolling after a lapse in coverage, which is often the case particularly with young people who are people who have lost a job and be out of workful they'll be penalized with a 30% premium. the impact on women of the republican proposal, this trumpcare proposal, is devastating. in addition to new restrictions on comprehensive health care for women, this republican bill, trumpcare, defunds planned paraphernaliahood and will make

program and by gutting protections and putting power back into the hands of insurance companies, trumpcare would take women back to the days when insurers decided whether critical part was covered including maternity care, mammograms and contraception. to be clear, these are not optional benefits. they are essential and they should be treated that way. finally, this legislation would make it harder to exercise their constitutionally protected abortion rights by discouraging insurance companies from including that in their plans. all in all, this bill undermines women's access to health care and women's aid and abbility to their own health care decision.

trumpcare, trumpcare, trumpcare. he doesn't want you to call it trumpcare.hen it comes to whether you should call it trumpcare, that is one thing about which trump cares. >> jon: he do, he do, he do! >> stephen: inter, according to one g.o.p. operative, "pretty much anything with the pejorative suffix on it, 'care,' is going to be viewed unfavorably by conservatives." ( laughter ) yes, conservatives don't want to be associating with caring. that's why the official mascot of obamacare repeal is "suck-it, the don't-care bear." ( cheers and applause ) do we have those? did we get those t-shirts? >> jon: yeah. >> stephen: i want that t-shirt. i would sell that t-shirt. or maybe trump just doesn't want to attach his name to something that no one likes. although that never stopped him before. and trump's not the only one defending trumpcare. this afternoon at a capitol hill press conference, speaker paul ryan, ever the showman, dazzled the doubters with a powerpoint presentation. he was either defending trumpcare, or selling reporters a timeshare. and like any sub

the fact of the matter is trumpcare is a mess.it will mean higher costs and less care for most americans. when you look at the details, you can see that trumpcare amounts to two separate systems of health care in america -- cheaper health care for the rich, more expensive health care for everybody else. under trumpcare, if you make more than $250,000 a year, you will get a huge tax break. the average is 200,000 a year because most people are way above that $250,000. but if you're in the middle class, the cost will increase by $1,500 annually, and by 2020, over $2,000 a year. let me repeat that. you make over $250,000, your average tax break is $200,000. you're in the middle class, your average increase in costs, $1,500 up. what kind of plan is that? donald trump has talked about helping working america. the plan he has embraced, trumpcare, helps the rich, hurts the average american, and that is not surprising given all the other things that they're doing the same way. this administration continues and health care is part of that t

president, on another matter, the failure of trumpcare. this past friday was a good day for the american people. we can finally put to bed the disaster of a bill that was trumpcare which would have resulted in spottier coverage, 24 million fewer americans with health coverage and higher costs, premiums and deductibles for the middle class, the working poor and older americans. all to finance close to $600 billion in tax breaks for wealthy americans. americans should breathe a sigh of relief that trumpcare will not become law. we're happy that it's gone and we can finally move on. and as i have said many times, we democrats provided our republican colleagues to drop replace and stop undermining the a.c.a. we're willing to work with our republican friends to improve the existing law. no one ever said the affordable care act was perfect. we have ideas to improve it. hopefully our colleagues on the republican side do as well. i hope once replace is dropped, the a.c.a. is no longer undermined by the administration, we can sit down and talk abou

trumpcare is here. trumpcare makes it very likely that the cost of drugs could go up for average americans. so it's just another example of this president doing one thing and saying another. he promises the moon and the stars, but his policies make them even further out of reach. he says, i'll bring drug prices down. his bill does the opposite. and it's just another way in which this is a health care handout for insurance companies and the wealthy, but a raw deal for average americans. trumpcare is really just a tax break for the rich. it's not really a health care program. the number one note vagues is to reduce -- motivation is to reduce taxes on the top one%. if you make -- if you're that .01%, your average reduction in taxes is $200,000, more than most americans make. so this bill is not going to help average americans, it's going to hurt them unless you're in the top .1%. as more and more people read the bill, the louder the chorus of opposition grows. the aarp, usually they don't like to take poli

under trumpcare, medicare's solvency will shrinkly four years. medicare, you'll remember, is the program primarily for seniors started back in the 1960's to make sure that when you got to a point in life -- age 65 -- you may not be working, no longer have insurance through your employer, the government medicare plan will cover you. has it worked? ask 60 million americans who count on it. yes. and what about the results? since 1960's, people are living longer. we know that medicare works, but the cost of health care has been going up, and we worry about its long-term solvency. it turns out the affordable care act, which we passed, brought some savings to health care anded ad ten years of -- and added ten years of solvency to medicare. now the republicans want to repeal the affordable care act, and it will reduce the solvency of medicare by four years. four years sooner medicare will go insolvent. the fiscally conservative republican party has come up with an answer that leads to sooner solvency for medicare. under trumpcare, $880 billion in fund f

the fact is trumpcare hurts both. it's going to shorten the life expectancy of the medicare trust fund. and those older people -- i'll be curious when my colleague returns, i'd be very interested in what seniors in new hampshire who are 56 and 58 and walking on that economic tightrope are going to say. i thank my colleague. excellent presentation. mrs. shaheen: thank you. and thank you for your night to help as we try and prevent people across this country from losing their health care. mr. wyden: i thank my colleague. we're going to prosecute this cause together. the chairman of the finance committee has arrived. he has graciously said i can take maybe another five minutes or so of our time. i just want to, before we wrap up this part of our presentation, point out that we've outlined how people who are dealing with the consequences of opioid addiction would be hurt from trumpcare. we've outlined how seniors who are not yet eligible for medicare are going to be hurt, and how seniors who are on medicare would be hurt

finally, trumpcare might be one of the biggest assaults on women's health that we've seen yet. the bill reduces coverage for maternity care. for mammograms. for birth control and more. it eliminates next year's funding for planned parenthood which provides health care for millions of american women every year. so it's no wonder the republicans kept this plan under lock and key. it's no wonder they want to jam it through before the american people learn what's in it. it's no wonder they want to vote before the congressional budget office tells us how many people will lose coverage and by how much this will increase the deficit. they're ashamed of this plan and it's amazing to me that after 8 years, they are so ill prepared that they don't have their act together and that both from the right side of their party and the left side of their party, people are taking shots at it. if their party has a left side. now, it's near certainty that this bill will cost millions to lose insurance and blow a gigantic hole in the federal budget. so it's reckless, irresponsible and make congress v

senator murphy: trumpcare is here and you are going to hate it. this is a dumpster fire of a bill that was written on the backs of a napkin behind closed doors because republicans know it is a disaster. they know this is a disaster, which is why they did let anybody see it, which is why they are rushing it through without any hearings, without any ability for the american public to take a look at it. if they did allow americans to see it, americans would notice that older americans are specifically targeted for harm in this piece of legislation. why is that? first of all, the bill allows for insurance companies to jack .p rates on older americans that will result in premiums going up by $3000 for the average 16-year-old. second, because the subsidies are so skimpy, that same individual will have their subsidy cut in half. so do the math. millions going to be of older americans, people on the precipice of medicare, who are not going to be able to afford insurance. are specifically targeted for harm in this piece of legislation. and let's not get st

trumpcare got about 17% popularity in the poll done right before it passed. so once they get off this kick of repeal and stop undermining the health care system, we have suggestions we want to make to make the system better. they'll have suggestions. we should get in a we should get in a room and try to make it better. i'm happy to do that. >> just by way of example, to prove that this can wok, -- work, if there's an issue nearly as divisive as health care, it's education. the health committee recently rewrote the entire secondary education law. whithewhithe the every student succeeds act. it wasn't a little change in law. it was a big change in law. white white -- mr. whitehouse: it came out of the committee unanimously. unanimously. if the president wants to get something done, he ought to charge the senate committees to use the regular process of governance to have hearings, to hear witnesses, to consider amendments, and to work together in bipartisan fashion to get something done. it has been done very recently. it can be done again. but it doesn't work w

velazquez: reject trumpcare. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, the g.o.p. health repeal bill rips coverage from 24 million americans. mr. deutch: so i ask my colleagues, can you imagine what it's like to gasp for air? your chest tightening and your lungs burning from asthma? worrying you might black out because you cannot get enough oxygen? this weekend a constituent of mine from fort lauderdale told me, thanks to the affordable care act i am finally able to breathe. the a.c.a. dropped her asthma medicine costs from $600 per month to $10. without the a.c.a., she cannot afford to breathe. can you imagine your medication within reach but you can't afford to use it? if you take your medicine when you need it, if you help yourself breathe now, you can't

trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you a woman? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. are you or someone in your family living with a disability? trumpcare means higher costs and less coverage. in fact, trumpcare is really a tax break for the rich, not a health care program. that's the real motivation of so many of our republican colleagues, to take people whose income is above $250,000 and give them an average tax break, to take the top .01% and give them an average tax break of $200,000 while making these people pay more. it's horrible. president trump has talked about helping working america. but the plan he has bravehe has trumpcare, helps the rich and hurts the average american. his administration has developed a pattern. health care is part of that. they talk like populists but act like those helping wealthy special interests time after time after time. look, no one likes this bill. hospitals, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberals, nonpartisan groups, and most of all, the people who will no lo

when you look at trumpcare, it hurts exactly those people. so if president trump was negotiating this deal, he got a great deal for the billionaires and millionaires that are in his cabinet. they're going to see a great tax break windfall. i mean, i'd like to get a calculator and take a look at what the size of the tax break will be to the members of the trump cabinet because it's going to be huge. but for ordinary americans, they're going to take it on the chin. they're going to be very badly hurt. which is why, mr. president, apparently people are trying to rush this through the congress so quickly. first it was in some remote room and you needed bloodhounds to go out to try to find out where it was, and now we know why it was kept so secret, because it's such a bad deal for the american people. but now that it's in the light of day and the details are coming out and we're getting more and more letters from groups from around the country, aarp, american hospital association, a.m.a., the american medical association, hundreds of other groups

trumpcare would do the very opposite. if it has any one coherent, positive goal, it's to limit the tax burdens on the very wealthy, and in the process, it would badly hurt millions of americans and throw our health care system back into chaos. if the final product out of the house looks anything like this draft, the senate should consider it a moral duty to reject it. thank you, mr. president. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of h.j. res. 44, which the clerk will report. the clerk: house joint resolution 44, disapproving the rule submitted by the department of the interior relating to bureau of land management regulations, and so forth. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be eight hours of debate equally divided in the usual form. ms. murkowski: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, thank you. i'm pleased that the senate is at the point we are this morning. last nig

trumpcare. i didn't steal some medicare pixel at me say higher premiums, less coverage, center benefits gutted, age tax, veterans tax comes to some medicare. all of this to get a tax break to the richest people in america. it's in their day in age, they can't help themselves. this is more of a tax break bill for the rich than it is a health care bill. as we believe in the values debate that health care is a right for all americans, not just a privilege for the few. here they are getting a tax break and ironically many of the people who will lose their health care voted for president trump, live in red areas, much of the money that will go to the richest people in america are in blue areas. now, isn't that something clicks with that i am pleased to yield to our distinguished democratic whip, mr. hoyer. >> thank you very much, chairman crowley. thanthank you very much, leader pelosi. donald trump just a few weeks ago looked at the american public in the eye through the lens of the tv camera and sa

for the devastating impact that trumpcare would have on treatment for the opioid epidemic. >> without objection. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. chairman. from my vantage point there is no one outside of a three-block radius of this capitol building that thinks that trumpcare is anything better than a raging dumpster fire. certainly no one think this is backroom bill will improve the lives of those struggling with the disease of addiction. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. i want to know from the gentleman -- note for the gentleman, the article referenced before from "the washington post" says the important takeaway is that there's not one opioid epidemic. >> we'll leave this here, you can continue to watch the house energy subcommittee hearing on our website. go to c

from 415 addiction groups nationwide opposing trumpcare for the devastating impact that trumpcare would have on treatment for the opioid epidemic. >> without objection. mr. tonko: thank you, mr. chairman. from my vantage point there is no one outside of a three-block radius of this capitol building that thinks that trumpcare is anything better than a raging dumpster fire. certainly no one think this is backroom bill will improve the lives of those struggling with the disease of addiction. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. i want to know from the gentleman -- note for the gentleman, the article referenced before from "the washington post" says the important takeaway is that there's not one opioid epidemic. >> we'll leave this here, you can continue to watch the house energy subcommittee hearing on our website. go to c-span.org. type the word opioid. u.s. house beginning legislative work shortly, beginning debate on two health insurance bills, one repealing health insurance businesses. these bills a run up to thursday's debate and v

on the aca a month ago no one had heard of trumpcare. now 57% of americans think it's a terrible idea and a very small number as you showed on your chart think it's a good idea. >> 6% strongly support it. >> we tried to help spread that, but without a grass-roots organization and without these organizations that are not mobilized and usually, the aarp, the ama, out there. this wouldn't have happened again and again and again. why? because the trump administration is so far to the right that the american people won't swallow it. >> senator chuck schumer is the leader of the democrats in the senate. i have a couple other things i want to ask you about, including leading the filibuster on the supreme court and the trump and russia investigation. can you stick with us? >> i sure can. >>> we'll be back with senator schumer right after this. stay with us. this competitor's truck. awesome. let's see how the aluminum bed of this truck held up. wooooow!! -holy moly. that's a good size puncture. you hear 'aluminum' now you're gonna go 'ew'. let's

trumpcare fails on all scores. i yielded back. >> i yielded one minute to the ranking member of our committee,erman from the commonwealth of kentucky, mister yarber. >> thank you mister boyle for yielding. just to elaborate a little bit on what's already been said, one of the key elements of this proposal and i think one of the most damaging ones is the guarantees of the coverage that we provided in the affordable care act. as i stated in my opening statement, this bill would allow insurance companies to sell coverage without mental health coverage despite the fact that we have an enormous opiate and drug addiction problem in this country. it would allow insurance companies to reduce the actuarial values so a very small portion of the actual out-of-pocket costs of care would be the responsibility of the insured and not the insurance company. and in many other ways, increasing the exposure of the people covered under these policies. and again, another broken promise that our president made including, i might mention

trumpcare will take away healthcare from 24 million hard-working americans. but not only that. the latest one, the key protections guided in a sense by eradicating the essential health benefits requirement affects 155 million americans who receive their benefits to the workplace. as the distinguished chairman mentioned, in addition to mental health, prescription drug, hospitalization, pregnancy, maternity and new baby care, rehabilitation services and devices to people with injuries, pediatric vision and dental care, ambulatory care. under the affordable care act a secondary could add more to the essential list but not subtract. this subtracts. it's really very sad. in addition to that there's a crushing age tax, forces americans 50-64 to pay premiums by tom higher than what others pay for health coverage the matter how healthy are. there's also a veteran stacks. we seen tammy duckworth yesterday with members of our veterans affair committee talk about the unfairness for the veterans tax which is saying to the veterans can take advantage of the tax deduction if they'ree eligibl

here's what trumpcare means for the american people. higher costs. trumpcare forces families to pay higher premiums and deductibles and increasing out of pocket costs, higher premiums. that's a message of the freedom caucus, higher premiums and they are right on that score. less coverage. trumpcare will take health care away from 24 million americans. crushing age tax. eople ages 50-64 will pay five times higher no matter how healthy. it shortens the life of the medicare trust fund by three years and ransacks those funds that seniors depends on who get the long-term care they need whether in a facility or to stay in their own homes and affects people with disabilities or addiction, et cetera, especially meeting the needs of america's children who need that assistance. as bad as frump care was, they have been trying to make it worse. they are scrambling to find a bill they can pass on the floor. i don't know if you want to call his on trump's part a rookie's error. you don't say you are going to pass a bill. you build consensus in your caucus and when

they are not willing to call it trumpcare. not yet. we did see sean spicer during the press briefing today refer questions back to house speaker ha paul ryan. what message does this send? >> reporter: they are making it clear he is the architect of this plan, and he is putting a positive spin on the report that the white house spend the day bashing, saying it would cut costs for young people, and he calls it encouraging. >> thanks, cecilia. >>> next, this eeping, a significant change in how the u.s. targets terrorists. president trump giving the cia the authority to conduct drone strikes, reversing an obama policy. the cia using its new strike authority in syria last month to kill a son-in-law in osama bin laden who was believed to be al qaeda's number two official. the cia would locate terrorists, but turn to the military to launch air strikes. to provide transparency, and they say, accountability. >>> next tonight, the marine's top commander on capitol hill facing tough questions about the nude photo scandal now widening. commandant,

trumpcare would be a disaster for the american people. trumprs from today, if and the republicans have their 4 million americans would not have health insurance and 58 million, 10 years from now, would not have health coverage. that is not american. that is wrong. premiums for seniors will rise 25%. if there was ever a war on seniors, this is it. it stands for over twice is much spends over twice on tax cuts for the rich then for the middle class and working class. one speaker ryan says it is an act of mercy, yes. those who make over $250,000 a year, they get big tax cuts. health insurance executives and wealthy americans. everyone else gets a cold shoulder from the republicans and the president. president trump said that everybody will be covered in cost will go down. he has no intention of keeping either promise. the nonpartisan scorekeepers have spoken clearly. trumpcare -- blowshould be a knockout for the republicans. they should turn back from this plan, which would be a disaster for the country. takingelosi: they are money from medi

. >>> trumpcare is finally public. each hour that goes by brings a new set of concerns and new groups that oppose the bill. trumpcare is the health care bill that forgot about women. simply put, trumpcare is a mess for the american people. we democrats will fight it tooth and nail. >> all right. as republicans continue to try to get on the same page about that new health care bill, democrats have a name for it, they are calling it trumpcare. you just heard him there. chuck schumer, he used that term 15 times today in a floor speech that lasted just five minutes. but with majorities in both the house and the senate, republicans need few, if any democrats, to get this legislation passed. if they can all get on the same page. joining us now, senator tammie baldwin, she is a democrat from wisconsin. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, steve. >> one of the objections here from some republicans, from some conservative republicans to this, they say, this is obamacare lite. they say the republican party spent the las