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This past week about paid parental leave. your bill that you're working on would give parents paid leave to be with their child in exchange for delaying retirement up to six months. my question is if paid leave is so important, why would it require somebody to give up or to lengthen their time working to give up six months of retirement in order to pay to have a child and work? >> well, this is a discussion draft. the plan that i have put forward is also cosponsored by senator mike lee of utah. it is a voluntary program. it is not a mandatory program. that way a parent can decide what is right...

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Discussion copy. it was not something that we ever intended putting in law, it was to get out there and get the discussion started. the tax code is 70,000 pages long. as the chairman said, it's bigger than the size of the bible, ten times bigger than the size of the bible, no good news. it's a huge document and it's not one that's easily done. what we did, we put out the discussion copy and that discussion draft has kind of been our blueprint by which we're working. we've been listening. believe me, we've had all the way from individuals to corporations, to pass-throughs, small businesses that...

Means the same thing that you are putting out in a discussion draft, which is basically what the trump administration put out yesterday. this is going to be a very convoluted discussion. thus, you will probably hear more of that, oh, it's better for the middleclass even if we have to take time to figure out if it's true. >> you are saying it's better for the middleclass, the same old rationale since we have been born. when you free up money, they invest. that's just a trickle down argument. it just is. >> that argument hasn't carried water since ronald reagan. it hasn't kicked in in the same w...

Dem colleagues to fix flaw. the bill is designed to fulfill the gop campaign promise to repeal and replace the affordable care act. and there is no one with more at stake at this stage of the debate than senate majority leader mcconnell who was personally called out by president trump on wednesday. >> he's got to pull it off. >> yeah. >> mitch has to pull it off, he's working hard. he has to pull it off. >> reporter: mcconnell the leader of the senate promised a revised plan would help bring the party together. >> after extensive consultations across the conference, millions of constituents an...