Our website, cspan. Org, type attacks on federal employees in the search box which youll find at the top of our home page. The u. S. Senate is about to gavel in on this wednesday morning, Senate Lawmakers plan to resume debates on appealing wavers on states to offer low cost Insurance Plans with the Affordable Care act 12 15 eastern toed and lawmakers plan to turn to 2020 federal spending on several departments including agricultural commerce, and housing. Now to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The u. We offer you today a sacrifice of thanksgiving for we borrow our heartbeats from you. Inspire our lawmakers to love discipline and cherish your word, seeking always to glorify you. May they trust your power and wisdom to supply what is needed to keep our nation strong. Have your way, sovereign god. You are the potter. We are the clay. Mold and make us after your will while we are waiting, yielded, and still. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please
Cassidy is going to walk you through the details. Rick santorum is going to tell you how history is on our site that ron johnson is going to talk about numbers because thats what he does in dean heller is going to tell you about how this is a good deal for the country as a whole and im going to start with the following proposition. If you believe repealing and replacing obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chance to make it happen because Everything Else has failed except this approach which will work if we get behind it. If you want a singlepayer Health Care System this is your worst nightmare. Birdie, bissinger dream of a singlepayer Health Care System for america so we need people on board now to stop what i think is inevitable if we fail which is singlepayer health care for all which is the end of quality and the end of a sustainable federal budget. There are three choices, prop up obamacare, ernie care for our bill. Thats where you are at. Count me out for propping
Spend and that we do the best job we have to reform the system to deliver the Health Care System at Higher Quality to all americans. The simple fact is, americans are spending nearly 1 trillion per year on health care and we are not getting our moneys worth. For the past 30 years, the Video Library is your free resource for politics, congress, and washington public affairs. Whether it happened 30 years ago or 30 minutes ago, find it on cspans Video Library. A live look at the floor of the senate where in about 20 aretes, a series of votes leading to final passage of the defense programs bill. Includes an increase in military spending and expanding u. S. Missile defense. That in response to north koreas recent missile launches. Votean watch the senate scheduled at 5 30 p. M. Et. Ahead of the United Nations general assembly, President Trump attended a meeting on changes to the organization saying that the u. N. Would be a cuttingective body by out all of the bureaucracy. This is about 15
After their testimony senators can ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin, we ought not take for granted the three hearings this committee is had over the past ten days. For seven years, hardly civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the affordable character. It was trump care versus obama care, day in and day out. For the last ten days senators have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month. To help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year. And begin to lower premiums in the future. And also prevent insurers from leaving the markets for those 18 million americans by insurance. Last week between the meetings held before hearings like the we had today and the hearings half of the senators participated in bipartisan conversations about Health Insurance. I want to thank senator murray again for her leadership in helping make that happen. These have been focu
Nenew deal in her attempt to fom a governing coalition in germany. In concession to the conservatives that cap the number of migrants led in every year. This hour, the nobel prize for economics has just been announced. We love the details in the Business Update we will have the details in the e Business Update. And more on this incredible career, coming up. At first, the top story live from paris. Catalonia is at a crossroads this week, the catalan pair mr. President and minister going headtohead over the regions eventual independence. They days ago, catalonia voted to leave spain in defiance of a top court that the clues about illegal. Just yesterday, the socalled silent majority, some 350,000 people, turned out in catalonia to say they want to stay in spain. Today, the french minister for European Affairs says that france would not recognize catalonia if it were to succeed. In the leader of spains socialists said they weres they would support the governments response to the catalan v