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Actually. just yesterday, he said we cant afford -- we cant afford the medicare, the medicaid and social security that we currently have. the current budget scoring has that going upside-down in five years and going insolvent. theyre looking at doubling and tripling the amount and adding on top of it. its just -- it defies any kind of common sense. >> martha: youre right. any other organization would have to prove that they were handling those programs efficiently in order to double the size of ...

0 will -- 700,000 -- the president paused and held memorial, how does he intend to mark this next terrible mile stone and what >> the president said many times, he feels incredible responsibility for everything happening in the country, including our fight and battle with covid-19. thats why he is focused on this. his number 1 priority since the first day he came into office. i note that we saved according to outside experts tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives because of the action...

Experts, no time for a congressional budget scoring, and americans, quite frankly, are at best having facts misrepresented to them and really lied to them about what this will -- >> what about the pre-existing conditions? do you not believe that some people will have the right to be covered for pre-existing conditions, but it may -- the cost of it may be prohibitive for them in. >> >> anderson, i cant speculate on that. >> you know bill, under the bill it would be possible. >> what is happening ...

Thats basically two new york cities. >> where do you get the numbers? >> cant get from congressional budget office because your legislation hasnt been out there long enough. studies out there from aarp and people like rand corporation, not particularly political. rand corporation has done a study that indicates this bill and what the president and republican senators want to do will facilitate more veterans for being unemployed. so whats happened here is in zeal to keep a campaign commitment but...

Scoring and get the tax-cut being the discussion instead of all this other stuff that has nothing to do with getting the economy ramped up again. david: are republicans going to go ahead with the radical tax some of them are nervous about that. >> they are trying to work together to move forward on that. he proposes the congress disposes to legislate and i would like to get to the media bias one last time was a lot of the outrage, the media behaved as if they were not consulted in the presidents...

About, its about power, its about the terrible campaign system that we have that starts our politics. it has nothing to do with good public policy on any level. >> the thing that drives me crazy about tax extenders, most are one-year set. some of are two. they dont get the ten-year budget scoring. everyone says this exhausts $68 billion. but thats just one year. if you do that every year, every one of the savings gets wiped out. >> and its the government picking the winners and losers. if you wa...

Thats reported the reconciliation instruction, thats subject to 60 votes. if the change in budget scoring is only incidentsal to the policy change, thats subject to 60 votes. if a matter is reported and its not germane, an amendment is not germane to the underlying proposal, that is subject to a 60-vote waiver. as i indicated, there are at least ten areas that are subject to 60-vote waivers. so the notion that this is just some slam-dunk deal, you get 51 votes and its over, thats just not right....

Subject to a 60-vote waiver. if a measure is outside the jurisdiction of the committee thats reported the reconciliation instruction, thats subject to 60 votes. if the change in budget scoring is only incidental to the policy change, thats subject to 60 votes. if a matter is reported and its not germane, an amendment is not germane to the underlying proposal, that is subject to a 60-vote waiver. as i indicated, there are at least ten areas that are subject to 60-vote waivers. so the notion that ...

If a measure is outside the jurisdiction of the committee thats reported the reconciliation instruction thats subject to 60 votes. if the change in budget scoring is only incidental to the policy change, thats subject to 60 votes. if a matter is reported and its not germane -- an amendment is not germane to the underlying proposal, that is subject to a 60-vote waiver, as i indicated there are at least ten areas that are subject to 60 vote waivers. the notion that this is just some slam dunk deal...

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