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We passed a bill that lowers the cost of prescription drugs for hundreds of millions of americans. hr3. it will save our taxpayers over $456 billion over the next decade. and allow for the expansion of medicare coverage, including hearing, dental, and vision benefits. just this week. we achieved monumental changes to the u.s./mexico/canada trade agreement. yes, we've been waiting a very long time for that. this agreement is huge. it's a huge win for our families. our workers and business owners in every district across the united states. and we continue to work to make sure that we stay compet...

Some common ground? >> democrats, look at the heart of it. the democrats say we won't cut a dollar a future spending unless you give us big tax increases on the tune of trillion of dollars. rep cans came up with tax reforms that generated more revenue that were in the hundreds of billions of dollars but the democrats said we will not cut a dime in spending unless you give us billions of dollars in tax increases. and look, here's what is going to happen as a result of the democrats unwilling to make any deal whatsoever. the automatic cuts fall on defense. $456 billion. that's the smallest part ...

Going to be repeal and replace and reform. i don't think it's going to be a one word only. and i love the democrats. their immediate response was, we're going to be able to paint the republicans as the party of pro insurance companies. wait a minute. it's the democrat budget. excuse me. the bill that gives half a trillion in subsidies and ramping up full fledged in 2017. so if they want to -- it's the republicans that want competition and allow small businesses to pool their risk and allow people to take their insurance from them, from job to job and not be stuck in a job that they hate becaus...

Previous version and what they said is we will not include that in the bill an ignore it and pretend like that huge pile of red stuff is not a problem for us. and, then, the other kind of -- what other tricks do they have in order to keep the total amount of the money at 940 and to keep the so-called deficit reduction number at 130. it was 110, i believe in the previous version and if you -- for example, $52 billion in payroll taxes, for social security, as paying for currently health care expenditures, and, 72 billion dollars worth of premiums for long term care, paying for health care expens...

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