Drove republicans to realize that in the interim where they are not going to get on repeal 00 get get 50 votes on repeal legislation. I want to show the tweets that Lamar Alexander put out simultaneously as the announcement was made before the Health Committee. Lets take a look at those. The chairman of the committee saying that the Health Committee will hold hearings september 4 on Actions Congress should take to strengthen the individual Insurance Market so americans will be able to buy insurance and affordable prices in the year 208. He tweeted we will hear from state insurance commissioners, patients, governors, Health Care Experts and insurance companies. Saying Committee Staff will work this week working with all Committee Members to prepare for these hearing and discussions. Also for lamarr alexander, the reasons for these hearings is that unless Congress Acts by september 27, of to half of our states may find themselves with zero options for buying Health Insurance exchanges for 2018. There are a number of issues with the American Health care system, says Lamar Alexander, but if your house is on fire, you want to put of the fire. And the fire in this case is the individual Insurance Market. Sounds like the senator was working out of for a while and itching to get that hearing underway. Andrew he issued a stark warning to President Trump. He says he encourages President Trump to continue allocating what are called costsharing reduction payments under obamacare, which would give funds to insurers and poorer americans under obamacare. Aat is in and of itself market stabilization measure. The president labeled them as they left. A lot of them as they allowed. Senator alexander, many republicans said that the president should at least in the shortterm continue these inment while those here Congress Work on a solution to stabilize the market. The ranking democrat on the committee, senator patty murray tweeting after the announcement was made with trumpcare presented in the senate, i am glad to get to work on health care with senator alexander. We tackled tough issues before. What about Senate Leadership . We saw mitch mcconnell. Whenever you heard from him and on the other side . Andrew mcconnell has been mum on this effort. Senator johnson senator john thune was advocating to continue csr payments under obamacare. Senator schumer has been saying the same thing. In the early hours of friday morning senator schumer was saying republicans and democrats to come together. This is what democrats have wanted all along, a the repeal and replace effort to fail, and b, for republicans to come away from that and start negotiating with them. As long as repeal and replace of obamacare was on the table, republicans were not coming to the table. This is crucial for democrats in terms of making sure that the structure is in place under obamacare structures in place under obamacare are staying put. The week of september 4 is when we hear the effort is going to start. It is a single hearing or a set of hearings . Sounds like senator alexander wants to get a lot done. Andrew senator alexander said plural hearings, bipartisan hearings. He says they want to hear from all those that want to be involved, state insurance chiefs, doctors, patients, Health Insurance experts, governors, who have a huge say in this. Many governors were successful in swaying senators away from or toward these iterations of repeal and replace. Starting september 4, senator alexander says they are looking to strike a deal by midseptember. They need to get something done by september 22 orioles a lot of americans or else a lot of those americans that get some cities wont have extension until 2018. The house is out for the august recess obviously. Is there a parallel effort going on in the u. S. House . Andrew none that we know of. Ae problem solvers caucus, group of moderate democrats and themblicans, about 40 of came out with a proposal earlier this week. It is not enough to gain much steam. With the house out right now i cant tell you how they are feeling about it. We will see more people from the House Freedom caucus in house weigh oin on that soon. We look forward to hearing from you september 4 as those hearings get underway. Andrew is on twitter. Andrew thanks so much. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. 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