One of the prognosticators on this said that this opens the way for the democrats next election year. As far as some of the enthusiasm and my caucus, i always listen to my members. Its a part of our life, but i am proud of the unity that we have had and frankly, my leadership in terms of keeping everybody together and fighting the Health Care Bill in the house of representatives. Very proud of our success in defeating at the first time, moving them to the right to the place where i think is unsustainable, but defines who they are very clearly. Im very proud of our unity which gave me leverage to succeed enormously in negotiations on the bill. When it comes to the issues, we are united in terms of our concern for americans families. Thats what unifies us. When it comes to personal addition and having fun on tv, i love the arena. I thrive on competition, and i welcome discussion. Every action has a reaction, every attack has a reaction with that, im pleased to take any questions. Reporter two of your fellow democrats say its time for a fresh start. We always have this discussion. One is one, two is a couple, three is a few, some is some. I feel very confident in the support that i have in my caucu caucus. My timing is not about them, my promises about the issues that we are here to fight and we are fighting right now on the Health Care Bill. The expansion of opportunity in our caucus has been great for people who want to take advantage and help us win. Maybe they dont want to play in that arena, jon fox news alert, today is the date republicans in the Senate Unveiled their proposal in the Health Care Bill. Lets listen to the majority leader of the u. S. Senate, Mitch Mcconnell. Its not like obamacare. They said it would increase choice. Of course, it didnt. This year, 70 of american counties have had little or no choice of insurers under obamacare. Next year, at least 44 counties are projected to have no choice at all. Meaning, yet again, americans could be thrown off their plans and states like missouri and ohio and wisconsin. Its not like obamacare is working. Democrats told us it would be wrong for the senate to actually address these problems in a serious way while the law they have defended for 7 years teeters, literally teeters on the edge of total collapse. They were wrong before, theyre wrong again now. Because obamacare isnt working by nearly any measure, it has failed, and no amount of 11th hour reality denying or buckpassing by democrats is going to change the fact that more americans are going to get hurt unless we do something. I regret that our democratic friends made clear early on that they did not want to work with us any serious bipartisan way to address the obamacare status qu status quo. Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act and we ar are. For our constituents, for our states, and for our country. Weve long called for a better way forward and weve been engaged in intensive talks on how to get there. Through dozens of meetings open to each and every member of the conference, we have had the opportunity to confront the obamacare status quo. We debated many policy proposals, we considered many different viewpoints. In the end, we found that we share many ideas about what needs to be achieved and how we can achieve it. These shared policy objectives and the solutions to help achieve them are what made us te health care draft. Policies contained in the discussion draft will repealed the repeal the individual mandates so americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they dont need or cant afford. We will repeal the employer mandate so americans no longer see their hours of takehome pay cut by employers because of it. We agreed on the need to them prove the affordability and policies contained in the discussion draft. We will eliminate costly obamacare taxes that are passed on to consumers so we can put downward pressure on premiums, expand taxfree Health Savings account and employ targeted tax credits so we can help defray outofpocket costs and shift power from washington to the states so they have more flexibility to provide more americans with the kind of affordable Insurance Options they actually want. We agree on the need to stabilize the Insurance Markets that are collapsing under obamacare as well and policies contained in the discussion draft will implement stabilization policies so we can bring financial certainty to Insurance Markets and hope to americans can face the possibility of limited or zero options next year under obamacare. Ultimately, transition away from obamacare system entirely so more americans will not be hurt. We also agree on the need to strengthen medicaid, preserve x xx2 care for patients with preexisting conditions and allow children to stay on their Parents Health insurance to the age of 26. Im pleased that we were able to arrive at a draft that incorporates input from so many different members who represent so many different constituents who are facing so many different challenges. The draft containing the solutions i mentioned along with many others is posted online. I encourage everyone to carefully review it. Therell be ample time to analyze, discuss, and provide thoughts before legislation comes to the floor and i hope every senator takes that opportunity. Next week, we expect the Congressional Budget Office to release a score after that, we will proceed with a robust debate in a moment open amendment process, a process that i encourage you veg are senators to participate. When it does come to the floor, able present democrats with another opportunity to do its right for the American People and can choose to keep standing by as their failing law continues to collapse and hurt more americans, but i hope they will join us instead to bring relief to the families who struggled under obamacare for far too long. Either way, its time to act. Obamacare is a direct attack on the middle class and American Families deserve better than its failing status quo. They deserve better care, thats just what we are going to continue to work to bring them. Under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Jon there is a majority leader of the u. S. Senate, Mitch Mcconnell on delivering open ring marks as they unveiled their proposal today to repeal and replace obamacare. It is called i lost the name. The Senate Version has a slightly different name than the house version. Mike emanuels life for us now on capitol hill. Good morning to you. Senate republicans have their first look at this bill and we have as well. Its 142 pages. You heard Mitch Mcconnell making the case that republicans need to act, that obamacare is failing and so, while some may want a more moderate plan, others may want a more conservative plan. He is saying the time to act is now because their constituents are suffering. Now its up to republican senators to see if they can support this plan. The status quo clearly is not working. What weve got is going to halt the bleeding. Its going to stabilize these markets. I think will bring Insurance Companies back into the markets because they will see a viable way forward. Lets hope we get this past and start repairing the damage thats been done. Speak out there are expected to be about eight or so republican senators on the fence about this. Some more conservative members like rand paul, mike lee, ted cruz, somewhere moderate members. Bottom line, Mitch Mcconnell can only afford to lose two of his republican members and democrats are blasting the process. The idea that we would vote on a bill of this significance that impacts the health of millions of americans with no public hearings, no markup, and just a week seems like a very unwise thing to do. When the American People discover whats in this bill, i suspect the republicans will wish they had gone through the process to refine the bill. Expect protests from democrats. Its on like we may be having a protest starting up here on capitol hill as well. The bottom line, republican senators will be waiting for an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office of this 142 page plan just out by monday. Jon mike emanuel on capitol hill, thank you. The name of it is the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. Thus the name i was looking for earlier and lost. Knowledge of the answer from the democrats. Chuck schumer of new york, the minority leader in the u. S. Senate speaking now. More than 800 billion, the house bill already cut from the program. Every senior and america should read the fine print of this bill. It looks like american seniors could be paying way more. Why do this . Looking at the bill, the answer is because the republicans want to give a tax break to the wealthiest americans. Those making over 200,000 a year and set themselves up to give these folks another, even larger tax cut in their tax bil bill. Even though much of the early reporting said the bill will keep certain protections for americans with preexisting conditions, the truth is, it may well not guarantee them the coverage they need. By allowing states to waive essential health benefits, with the bill is saying to those americans is insurance still has to cover you, but it doesnt have to cover what you may actually need. It doesnt have to cover all or even most of your costs. If you need treatment for opioid addiction, your plan may no longer cover it. If youre pregnant and a maternity care, your plan may have decided thats too expensive. The coverage that americans of preexisting conditions actually need may well become either unaffordable or even nonexistent under this bill. Simply put, this bill will result, not right now with the end of my remarks. Simply put, this bill will result in higher costs, less care, and millions of americans will lose their insurance, particularly through medicaid. Its every bit as bad as the house bill. In some ways, its even worse. The president said the senate bill needed heart. The way this bill cuts health care, its heartless. The president said the house bill was mean. The Senate Bill May be meaner. The Senate RepublicanHealth Care Bill is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the house bill. Its clear that republicans know that cutting medicaid will help so many people in the middle class, so many in my home state of new york. Republicans know that people want essential health benefits, so they created a disguise by saying these changes will occur for a year. In reality, the Senate Republican bill is a wolf in sheeps clothing, only this wolf has even sharper teeth in the house bill. We are potentially voting on it and a week. No Committee Hearings, no amendments and committee, no debate on the floor. One of the most important bills we are dealing with in decades. That brings shame on this body. We wont even know the full cost of consequences of the bill until cbo scores it. That could take a few days more. How can my friend, the majority leader, expect this body to fairly consider this legislatio legislation, prepare amendments and debate it in one week with only ten hours of debate . How can he expect his own members to do the same . Many of them on the republican side are learning the details of the bill the same way we democrats are. Theyre reading it today. Now listen to the majority leader had to say and 2009 when we were debating health care. His words, this is a very important issue. We shouldnt try to do it in the dark. Whatever final bill is produced should be available to the American Public and to members of the senate certainly for enough time to come to grips with it. We are going to insist and the American People are going to insist that it be done in a transparent, fair, and open way. It is five or six days and of time for the American People and members of the senate to come to grips with a bill that affects onesixth of the economy in the lives of every american in this country . I dont think so. Neither do the American People and neither do a whole bunch of republican senators. Senator cassidy, what i have preferred a more open process . The answer is yes. Senator collins, i dont think it gives enough time to analyze the bill, but well see when it comes out. There is member after member, rand paul, lindsey graham, jerry moran, marco rubio, bob corker, who repeatedly have said this process in their words, and now in mine, is unfair, is rushed. For my dear friend, the majority leader, to say we are going to have an open amendment process is turning truth upside down. I would ask our leader rhetorically, i know the answer, can we allow at least one hour on each amendment, not 2 minute 2 minutes . Will we have more time than ten hours to debate the bill . I hope so. If not, please dont call this an open and fair process. You want to rush it through, admit the consequences. Now, mr. President , the debate over health care has been fierc fierce. We know that the republicans and democrats have differences when we debated the Affordable Care act. At least we had a debate, at least had Committee Hearings and a process. More broadly than that, at least we democrats were trying to pass a Health Care Bill that helped more americans afford insurance and try to bring costs down an end some of the most egregious practices of the health care industry. What is this bill, trump care, trying to achieve . It seems designed to slash support for Health Care Programs in order to give tax breaks to the very wealthy. When the cbo score comes out, i believe it will verify that millions of americans in this great country will be unable to afford insurance or the insurance they can afford wont cover the services they need. Somewhere in america, mr. President , theres a family who takes a trip each friday to visit grandma or grandpa at a nursing home. Who sacrificed all of their savings to pay for their health care until they had no more savings. And now relies on medicaid to help pay the cost of longterm care in a nursing home. Somewhere in america, there is a father who is eaten up inside watching his son struggle with opioid addiction. Who knows in his heart that his son would be able to go on and live a healthy and fulfilling life if he could only afford treatment to get him out from under his devastating addiction. Somewhere in america, theres a parent whose child has cancer, mother and father who stay up late at night, worried that their insurance will either not be available or run out in the family needs it most. The america that my republican friends and vision with this Health Care Bill, those americans and many more beside might not get the coverage and care they need. We live in the wealthiest country on earth. Surely, surely, we can do better than what the republican Health Care Bill promises. Now i have a unanimous consent request. I have to delay my friend from asking questions until we finish our consent request. I ask unanimous consent that any substitute for perfecting amendments offered to calendar numbered 120 hr 1628 not be an order at the text of the amendment has not been filed at the desk and made available on a public website for at least 72 hours, along with an analysis. The jon as Chuck Schumer delves into some of the arcane details of senate procedure, you can hear the protests from democrats who dont like the details of the republican bill, the Health Care Bill that has been taken out from wraps this morning. Were going to hear from chad program, a guy who knows capitol hill better than just about anybody including some of those who serve in those offices there. Also, republican senator john thune who helped craft the bill. His take on it coming up when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. Fast relief in every bite. Crunchy outside. Chewy inside. Tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. Ykeep you sidelined. Ng thats why you drink ensure. 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Lets talk about the differences beginning with affordability. More than anything, people in a Health Care System that not only works, but is affordable. Theres this plan do that . Thats going to be one of the things that they have to wait to find out when they get a score from the Congressional Budget Office. Those are the official scorekeepers of this piece of legislation and you cant go to the cbo until you get this into legislative form, which weve seen some of that in the past few minutes. We are told that could be next week. I tho