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Chris mcdaniel, the state senator, the last man standing 11400 more votes than cochran in the primary election. The two facing of tonight. The upshot is calling it, close enough that it will depend upon the turnout in the big counties. And they say also, just a reminder, mississippi counties routinely take electronic pds of results and facts them to state headquarters. Here are the results so far with 80 percent of the mississippi precincts reporting. Thad cochran the 6term incumbent with 51 percent of the vote and state senator Chris Mcdaniel with 49 percent of the vote. Here is a new york, t...

Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is ...

An audit revealed more than 57,000 veterans on too long waiting lists to be scheduled for medical appointments and in addition to that there are other veterans seeking care at va who were never even added to these wait lists. This is clearly unacceptable and must be dealt with immediately. I couldnt agree mor with senator mccain when he said on the senate floor in the debate, and i quote, if theres a definition of emergency, i would say that this legislation fits that. It is an emergency. It is an emergency what is happening to our veterans and the men and women who have served the country and...

Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. Before we begin, i would ask unanimous consent all the statements would be added into the records, all would have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. Without objection, so ordered. Today we meet to begin debate and negotiations regarding the house an employment to the Senate Amendment to hr 3230, the veterans access to care act of 2014. Im going to recognize myself first and then recognize our cochair senator sanders. Following that conferees recognized in order of seniority alternating between the house and senate and ...

Coming weeks. Center Chuck Schumer is a democratic senator from new york. And on the finance committee. He said recently that it is iffy that there will be a deal done to divert the Highway Trust Fund to find the revenue to patch that hole. What is your view on the prospect that there will be an agreement before the middle of july when this really get to a head . I think they are better than but it is tough. There are not a lot of ways to find offsets for Highway Trust Fund spending. Indeal with this sometime july. We may push it into early august. It is coming. It is a crisis. It always seems...