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Relief funding for hurricane katrina. telling the hill newspaper it was the best vote he ever cast. king was the sole nay vote on house resolution. king said the childrens health care bill s-chip stood for socialized clinton style hillary care for illegals and their parents. still, their are things steve king likes and those are creepy, too. king voted against increasing penalties for dogfighting and cockfighting. on nuclear power king said by the way if you had an chained to the reactor at thre...

Result, an end result that will -- its not just senator mccain, but robert byrd, he wrote an op-ed piece say this reconciliation procedure was never meant to deal with something like health care reform. >> but it has been used, wolf. >> he knows a lot about the rules of the senate, robert byrd. >> and im going to defer to him on that. im not a senate rule expert, but i know the history. reconciliation has been used to balanced budget act, for s-chip, for key procedures. again, what the american ...

The health care of america, it is about job, and in its life it will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately. jobs again, the health care industry, but in the entrepreneurial world as well. you, mr. president, your leadership, we passed the american reinvestment and recovery act, last january and got a running start on some of the technology and science on scientific advancements, investments in biomedical research, health i.t., health information technology, a running start by yo...

Legislation, such as health care, as you all know. >> actually, thats completely, utterly 100%, knowingly wrong. that is not true at all, senator kyl. and you know its not true. reconciliation is how the health care system has been essentially formed in this country, over and over and over again. you ever heard of cobra? cobra is the law that lets people keep their employee health insurance for a while after theyve been laid off. you want to know what the "r" in cobra stands for? reconciliation....

Whats the difference? >> i disagree with ryan this is a conservative blueprint the president put forward. its very much not what the republicans talked about in terms of changing the tax code, portability, reducing mandates. what this is about is getting government more involved in our health care industry. today, 50% of health care is in the hands of government through medicare, medicaid, s-chip and v.a. and the president in his speech september 9th said i want a $900 billion health care plan o...

Retrofits and getting folks back to work right away. >> okay. there have been -- theres really only been one tax increase and that was on smokers in this country for s-chip but its clear that the bush tax cuts are going to be gone and are you going to raise taxes -- the american people want to know, are you going to raise taxes on the top 2%? does this budget do that? >> this budget does that. also in our last budget. and lets be very clear, the parts of the bush tax cuts that are expiring in th...

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Tweeting that he has reached out to chuck schumer. they have had a conversation just in the last 24 hours about health care. chuck schumer, again, the minority leader there in the senate saying, well, hang on a second. we are not for repeal and replace, and especially with the developments overnight of the reduction of support for birth control for businesses. thats antithet cal to what we stand for as democrats. so, ben, were sort of seeing two opposite ends of the political spectrum. what do y...

Response to hillary care back in the 1990s than it is to sort of democrats ideas or ideals of singer payer or what they would have liked to have seen in the system be expansions of medicare, medicaid and s-chip which is what teddy kennedy for example used to propose and having government provided health care rather than health care depending on private markets. so really a lot of the problems with this bill are a lot more simply not just ideological but a lot more local. so you have states for e...