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Lifetime limits on insurance coverage. this secretive process of concealing and rushing this bill, which until today have been seen by nobody, nobody outside the republican leadership and their lobbyist allies who dwell on k street. the secretive process stands in short contrast to the process that led to the affordable care act. is the chair able to confirm that the committee considered s-1796, the america s health future act, which is ultimately incorporated into h-3590, the patient protection? you are listening to reaction on the senate floor. let s head over to the house side of the capitol for reaction. let s go to michael burgess from texas. he helped draft it. congressman, great to see you. thanks for coming in. thanks for having me on. ....
Answer any questions about the memo, who helped draft it, who reviewed it, who suggested it, and his reason was that the firing and the memo and all of those circumstances might be part of robert mueller s investigation. which i did not i hadn t thought of it that way before, but he probably refused to answer 15 questions during that session based upon, i can t answer that because it may be part of the fbi investigation. by the way, i heard the wonderful exchange. it reminded me of moot court between congressman duffy and chris. the ping-pong? i think one thing needs to be clarified. yes, sir. the mueller investigation is not a new investigation. it is he will lead the current fbi investigation. okay. finally, on this notion that it could be former senator, once ....
Safety and protecting u.s. citizens? uh-huh. we think that the executive order as a whole is unconstitutional and illegal, and i will give you a couple reasons why. first of all, there is a constitutional right that individuals can exercise freedom of religion and have free expression there of. this executive order is not grounded in findings or safety, and what the president himself and those that helped draft it like rudy giuliani are saying makes clear the naked intent is to discriminate against certain groups of people based on upon what they believe and where they are from, and that s unconstitutional. but the courts would have to presume what the intention of the order is when the order doesn t mention specific religions? it s a little more complicated than that, right? for example, right now we have a situation where the president in ....
Mentioned in the quran. it s not a holy site like mecca or medina would be. and here s one of the other things. the israelis have always protected those muslim sites as well as the christian and jewish sites so that anyone could go and experience them. heather: do you think that we don t have that. heather: i m sorry. do you think that president obama pushed for this resolution? you know, the israelis say they have proof that is what happened. do you believe that is what happened, and do you think this is personal, a personal move against benjamin netanyahu and a perm move to kind of put the personal move to put donald trump behind the 8 ball when it comes to relations with israel? yes. i think it s personal and petty, and secondly, i think he not only knew about it, i think he helped draft it. and i think the evidence continues to come forth to show phone calls that have been made with the egyptians and the jordanians and others who indicate that there was heavy ....
Month of an unauthorized war and i think congress needs to take that up. the use of a military asset against al qaeda members is something that i continue to support. do you see any hope there will be this authorization for this war against isis in iraq and syria coming forward from congress anytime soon? wolf i do. we ve seen a remarkable thing happen in the senate today. a matter that was deeply partisan just two months ago whether or not congress should be able to review an ultimate nuclear deal with iran. i worked on a bill, helped draft it with senator corker, passed out of the foreign relations committee complete lyly unanimous. because of the foreign relation committee s action the senate approved an orderly and careful process for reviewing an important diplomatic deal with ....