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Our constituents have suffered through an awful lot under obamacare. we thought they deserved better. its why i and many of my colleagues did as we promised and voted to repeal this failed law. we told our constituents we would vote that way and when the moment came, most of us did. we kept our commitments. we worked hard and everybody on this side can certainly attest to the fact that we worked really hard to try to develop a consensus for a better way forward. i want to thank everybody in this...

Wanted to become law. trying to get commitments from speaker paul ryan that the conference would happen. the house wouldnt pass the bill. the speaker at one point late released a statement saying the house was willing to go to conference. that wasnt enough. the speaker picking up the phone, calling several senators including senator senator john mccain, saying, look, we will go to conference, you have my word we will go to conference. in the end, senator mccain in his statement after the vote sa...

And when the moment came, when the moment came, most of us did. we kept our commitments we worked hard, and everybody on the side can certainly attest to the fact that we worked really hard. to try to develop a consensus for a better way forward. i want to think everybody in this conference. for the endless amount of time that they spent trying to get a consensus. to go forward. i want to thank the president and the vice president who could not be more involved. and more helpful. this is a disap...

>> unanimous consent that hr 1628 be returned to the calendar. >> objection? without objection. >> so mr. president, this is clearly a disappointing moment from skyrocketing costs to plummeting choices and collapsing markets. our constituents have suffered through an awful lot under obamacare. we thought they deserved better. its why i and many of my colleagues did as we promised and voted to repeal this failed law. we told our constituents we would vote that way and when the moment came, most o...

Self-interest or furthering a political agenda? >> in politics there is a sense of loyalty. you stick with a party, you stick with commitments. and in the place where is ive worked in albany and washington, d.c., the highest praise you can give to a politician is that that person is a straight shooter. yeah, sometimes people fall off the loyalty wagon, but in general, you just dont see the kind of behavior, the kind of massive dishonesty and disloyalty we see with donald trump. >> it is fascinat...

There. but hes stiffed thousands of bond holders that invested in trump casinos, all these contractors, the people who signed up for trump university. one after another. political parties, he was in the reform party, then he was a republican, then he was a democrat, now hes a republican again. where is the loyalty here? i think it all runs in one direction. >> is this just politics, though? is anyone in politics when push comes to shove truly loyal? isnt everything based on self-interest or furt...

This legislation will go to conference and opening hearings and congressional budget office scoring, that there will be a full review, not simply a quick up or down vote on the skinny repeal legislation? >> that is up to the house leadership to make a commitment. i dont see how we can vote on something like that just coming over here. it basically raises more questions than it solves. and it doesnt address any of the real major issues that are out there. i dont see how -- it basically is just ba...

Back, which i believe is what president trump said. so i just want to make sure hes doing his job, in compliance with recusal and continuing to direct the department of justice in a way that keeps faith with the commitments he made to those of us in the senate who had some real concerns about his unreported meetings with the russian ambassador. >> okay. senator, next big topic. i mean, theres so much news -- >> theres a lot. >> -- coming out of capitol hill and the white house, health care. what...

So what does that leave them with? as senator bob corker called it, the wild west. in a situation like this, you essentially walk into a process where any senator can offer any type of amendment so long its germane and in the budget rules. so senators are being asked to move forward on something where they dont know the endgame. there is an politically risky move but also very risky on the policy side. whether its conservatives on the regulatory side, moderates on the medicaid expansion, they wo...

We know very well where all these senators are, their specific asks, what they want, whether its conservatives on the regulatory side, whether its more moderates on the medicaid expansion or the medicaid in general side. they would be going into this debate with no commitments theyd be getting theegz things for sure. as one former senate aide put it to me, its akin to telling a senator to jump out of an airplane with a backpack thats about 50-50 whether theres a parachute inside of it. except in...