laboratory of government, just like the founders really understood the states to be, this is where you attempt things, you try and you innovate. and he was willing to let republican governors try things. welfare reform came out of states. it didn t come out of washington. there were things that we did in children s health care in arkansas that preceded the idea of s-chip. way we wanted to build it, it required payin, it wasn t just a welfare program where you get 100% of the benefits for free. you get a premium and you have a deductible. why is it important? if people have skin in the game, they take a totally different attitude whether it s free or don t care whether it costs $1,000 or $100. those are the innovations can you do at the state level to. his credit, clinton said give
laboratory of government, just like the founders really understood the states to be, this is where you attempt things, you try and you innovate. and he was willing to let republican governors try things. welfare reform came out of states. it didn t come out of washington. there were things that we did in children s health care in arkansas that preceded the idea of s-chip. way we wanted to build it, it required payin, it wasn t just a welfare program where you get 100% of the benefits for free. you get a premium and you have a deductible. why is it important? if people have skin in the game, they take a totally different attitude whether it s free or don t care whether it costs $1,000 or $100. those are the innovations can you do at the state level to. his credit, clinton said give it a shot. mark: and george w. bush was
to call the president, can, they know that. he works the phones himself. erin, we still don t understand why democrats who support each individual piece in the continues resolution don t support the continuing resolution. you now have democrats against s chip. you now have democrats against border patrol agents because they want to resolve people who came across the same border illegally. this president has said he has committed to resolving the daca issue. i know many people do not expect him to do that. for them but insist that a d.r.e.a.mer, a daca solution be part of this? there is no way at this point in any way shape or form that the president will entertain that? but erin let me ask you why they want that. it doesn t make practical sense when you think of the time line. so the government shutdown last night, continued resolution expired on january 19th. daca needs to be resolved by march. and only because court decisions
but the one reason we are where we are is because we couldn t close out any of these other component parts because our friends on the other side said you got to deal with this issue. this issue is the key to getting defense spending. this issue is the key to getting help for s-chip kids. on and on and on. i think most of american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue which doesn t even ripen until march, is irresponsible. and i ve just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we re going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown but the senate isn t shutting down. and we re open to talk. and to resolve this.
congress begging us, begging us to extend chip for 9 million children. ignore the needs of millions of americans would rely on the federal government for important services. held all of us hostage, all of it hostage over the completely unrelated issue of illegal immigration. republicans in the senate have gone all we can to continue the normal operations of the federal government. and secure certainty for the s-chip kids. we can pass it tonight and go to the president for signature. these kids would be okay. well we re going to continue to do all we can, we ll vote again so the american people know who