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Interests and i will work to earn your respect. >> and people who didnt like the outcome thought this was rigged. >> i say to president elect bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may god bless his stewardship of this country. >> the decision by the supreme court underscored in many ways the power of the electoral college. i think it also led to a lot of cynicism in the electoral process. >> 16 years and three presidential elections later, the 2016 race for the whi...

>> whether you voted for me or not, i do my best to serve your interests and i will work to earn your respect. >> and people who didnt like the outcome thought this was rigged. >> i say to president elect bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may god bless his stewardship of this country. >> the decision by the supreme court underscored in many ways the power of the electoral college. i think it also led to a lot of cynicism in the electoral process. >> 16 years an...

I think the bigger issues that we are going to face are, number one, the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are certainly being cancelled by their insurance companies when they were promised by the president that that wouldnt happen. >> i want to start with that because i want to be fair about that. the people who are getting these notices, first of all, they have to be offered another plan. and the reason that theyre getting these notices is because they dont have hospitalization, they d...

Political move. one thing that people can agree upon, nobody likes rick scott. >> do you think this is just aself serving political move, or a tacit admission that there are some good things about the affordable care act? >> i want to believe he woke up and saw the light that it was a good thing, that basically expanding medicaid to people, you know, who need it the most, because theyre not making much money and working jobs that dont provide health care coverage. but the reality is he is facing...

Election. so this is a problem. >> this is an extraordinary problem. one of the things we deal with, you were the sponsor and drafter in the 2008 election. we wanted to provide provisional ballots. if somebody comes to the polls, and the volunteers who are trying to do their job, they may not be able to check that particular day or hour, what we said was, okay, they will cast a provisional ballot. that ballot will then be put aside, taken to the election office that day or the next, and if its v...

Some of the crossing state lines and letting people buy insurance without those kinds of barriers, some of the other reform measures that are smaller issues. >> first of all, the bill they are going to put up is a total democrat bill that literally brings everything to washington, gets washington the power over health care. and of course, wont work. so we really do -- we could start over. i think with a group of us, we could have a bill within a month that would be a great bill that would bring ...

Wrangling behind closed doors. this is what we know for sure, for us to solve this extraordinary problem that is so many years in the making, its going to take the cooperation of both parties. its not going to happen in any other way. im pleased that congress supported my request to restore the pay as you go rule which was instrumental in turning deficits into surpluses during the 1990s. ive also called for a bipartisan fiscal commission. unfortunately, this measure which originally had received...

Democrats and republicans, was blocked there. ill be creating this commission by executive order. during our meeting i asked the leadership of both parties to join in this serious effort to address our long-term deficits. when politics is put aside, the reality of our fiscal challenge is not subject to interpretation. math is not partisan. there ought to be a debate about how to close our deficits. what we cant accept is business as usual. and we cant afford grandstanding at the expense of actua...

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