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Joe sure. They asked it earlier this month, and what it is, it is the annual defense policy bill in the senate version, in this case, they authorized about 56 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. That 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Joe that is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the know is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we kn...

Joe sure. They asked it earlier this month, and what it is, it is the annual defense policy bill in the senate version, in this case, they authorized about 56 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. That 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Joe that is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the know is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we kn...

In the meantime Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell announcing yesterday the senate will vote on a plan to repeal the Affordable Care act within two years. Instead of replacing it immediately. Now the live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. By dr. Hance dilbeck, Senior Pastor from Quail Springs Baptist Church in oklahoma city, oklahoma. Were very happy to welcome you here. The guest chaplain let us pray. O, lord, youve made heaven and earth and all that dwells within and we praise you as our creator. You rule above men and nations as the king of glory, and we praise you as our kin...

Across this country. And according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a c straight repeal of the Affordable Care act would result in more than 32 Million People prem by 2026. Premiums would roughly double in the individual marketplaces. I urge my republican friends not to go forward with this misguided approach. The idea that they can repeal the Health Care Bill now andor give us a new bill in two years or whatever period of time is in the bill, just doesnt pass the smell test. If we havent seen an alternative to the Affordable Care act in the last seven years, there is no reason ...

Thank you, mr. President. I yield the floor. Mr. Prince president , the majority leader says he will move forward this week with about on a straight repeal of the Affordable Care act in its entirety. I dont believe that a majority of senators are willing to support a reckless leap in the dark but that both would mean. Its a vote that would end protections for people with preexisting conditions and would take Health Coverage away from tens of millions of americans, tens of thousands in New Hampshire. It would terminate the Medicaid Expansion that has been critical to siding the Opioid Epidemic ...