bills from the veterans' affairs committee. first, h.r. 1181 is, the veterans second amendment protection act sponsored by chairman phil roe, which ensures that the second amendment rights of v.a. beneficiaries are not restricted without due process. next, h.r. 1259, the v.a. accountability first act, also sponsored by chairman roe, which grants the v.a. secretary increased discretion to remove our suspend v.a. employees due to poor performance. finally, h.r. 1367, sponsored by representative brad wenstrup, which enhances the v.a.'s ability to recruit and retain highly qualified employees. the failures at the v.a. are well documented and completely unacceptable. these bills are a step in the right direction towards creating greater accountability at the v.a. and keeping our promise to america's veterans who have sacrificed so much for us. i thank the gentleman. yielding i yield to back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that information. and i would now like to ask him we passed the dodd -- d.o.d. appropriation bill and sent that to the senate, mr. leader. e already done the

the repeal of this regulation that would come about by virt you of the bill that is -- virt you of the bill that is before you. why? because we have a right to expect that these regulatory agencies that congress sets up will do their job with the significant sums of taxpayer money that they are provided by this congress, the money that comes from the people of america to do their job in a timely fashion. and this agency comes for the forth and tries to act like it doesn't have the money or the authority to investigate violations and enforce the law within six months of a violation. that is not true. the american people have a right to expect more from the agencies than that. more to the point, the reason we are here today is really simple. we are here to overturn a rule that is blatantly unlawful and does nothing, i repeat nothing, to improve workplace safety. we are here to put a check on the very stop of executive overreach the congressional review act sought to address. by blocking this punitive and overreaching rule, we will firm congress' commitment to pro-act i have health and sa

meant to improve the work force. my plea on this is, much of this bill there is agreement on. mr. takano is right, it went a step further. having been a rank and file person in a collectively bargained unit, my goal was to provide the best quality education so our students could learn, an environment, quality teachers and all of those things. i'm at a loss for the desire to come here and decide -- and again, we say it in passing, well, i don't to deride those good employees but take away their collectively bargained right, even though we can give an example, like robert, with over a decade of experience at the veterans' benefits administration. he was demoted after consistently after every single ar receiving top-rated reviews. robert participated on a quality review team to get rid of the backlog and had the audacity to tell his manager there were better ways. perhaps all this overtime pay and consolidating all of these claims to one place was not in the interest of that. that manager on the way out the door demoted and triedo remove robert from that position. now keep in mind,

us tonight on the seventh anniversary of president obama's affordable care act, the bill president trump supports to replace it is in serious trouble. and we've just learned that a white house ultimatum has been issued. it came at the meeting behind the doors you see there and a deadline set inside that room is where house republicans have been trying to reconcile two opposing factions within their party. one, the freedom caucus, the one that wants less comprehensive coverage in the bill. and other republican moderates asking for more. will they emerge from these doors with a deal ready to vote on, or tomorrow end like today with no vote and no agreement. most of the lawmakers in that room right now tonight ran on a promise of repealing and replacing the affordable care act. so did president trump. so whether you care it trumpcare, ryancare, or gopcare, a lot of political futures are on the line and so are the lives and well-being of tens of millions of americans, people who vote. and if that weren't sobering enough, there's tonight's breaking news from the congressional budget off

we are watching. republicans and bill their plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act. an attempt to appease different factors within the gop. the latest them a craddick and republican reaction coming up later this hour. to talk about trade. report on of a new the future of trade in the asia pacific reason. almost 100 billion dollars is needed for capital projects over the next five years and they can only paper about half of it on their own. the report comes as president trump calls for $1 billion worth of infrastructure improvements. ♪ house republicans toeiled awaited legislation repeal and replace the affordable care act. today, president trump tweeted "our wonderful new health care bill is now out for review and negotiation. obamacare is complete and total disaster -- iimploding fast. we go to washington. some may not like certain aspects, what the republicans telling you about the bill? >> this will be the first policy fight that house speaker paul ryan will have directory. the tension between the tea party and the more moderate link of the conservative movement is

the bill is doomed. >>> secret evidence. the house intelligence chairman fails to offer any proof of his new claims of surveillance of the trump transition team. republican devin nunes facing backlash for rushing to brief the president while leaves the committee members in the dark. >>> thumbs up. trump associates may have communicated with the russians to give a thumbs up signal to release information damaging to hillary clinton. stand by for exclusive reporting on the fbi investigation. and i am president. mr. trump says his title proves he must be doing something right in a defense of his credibility that unleashes even more false information. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. a high-stakes cliff-hanger that could embolden or embarrass the president depending on what happens in the hours ahead. right now a pivotal house vote on the gop healthcare bill has been postponed until at least tomorrow. by all accounts

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ways and means committee the house ways and means committee passed him in a replacement bill for obamacare just an hour ago. we will tell you what's next. good morning. and nicole petallides. lauren: good morning, everybody. i'm lauren simonetti. the biggest slump in oil prices and with the dell jones industrial average fell in 69 points yesterday. it's been 101 days since the 1% decline for the index. we will ask if investors should brace for a big move down there. we'll see. down to seven, s&p up a fraction. nicole: investors look to tomorrow's u.s. jobs data and next week's fed meeting. nikkei up one third of 1%. and china come to shanghai composite index down three quarters of 1%. lauren: oil prices .5% on record oil supply. right now, oil to the upside by 15 cents b. $50.42 a barrel. nicole: google, samsung and microsoft struggled to explain why they're smart tvs can be signed by the cia. lauren: about tonight for golden state warriors as they go down for the boston celtics and breath debut for 10 tivo against baseball's major leaguers. we'll have this highlights for you. ni

addition, the house will consider several reform bills straight from our better way ageneral ka -- agenda, the fairness in class action litigation and furthering asbestos claim transparency act sponsored by chairman bob goodlatte which ensures that only similar injured parties can be in the same class for purpose of a class action suit, as well as requires public disclosure of reports on the receipt of claims for injury based on exposure and asbestos. next, h.r. 725, the innocent party protection act, which establishes a uniform standard for determining whether a defendant has been fraudulently joined to a lout. and third, h.r. 720, the lawsuit abuse reduction act sponsored by chairman lamar smith which restores accountability to our legal system by penalizing lawyers for filing baseless lawsuits. our federal litigation system is plagued with broken rules that unnecessarily harm american business and consumers. with these somebodies, we -- with these measures we will follow through on our pledge to take on trial lawyers and crack down on lawsuit abuse through litigation reform.

institute summit last week. the house plans to vote on the gop health care law replacement bill on thursday. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to our session with speaker ryan. the speaker -- [ applause ] >> hey, everybody. >> the speaker was only able to join us this morning because he has nothing else going on. and paul, i just want to say, you're getting hit from the left. you're getting hit from the right. occasionally even getting hit from "national review." so i just want to say, we appreciate you. appreciate what you're doing. and thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> so let's dive in on this very important question of nomenclature. is it ryan care or trump care? >> it's the american health care act. can you hear me? first of all, thank you for having me at this stage. i really didn't want to sit on that stage. i'm glad you had this separate one. joking. it's kind of weird. >> bigger stage? >> yeah. one day maybe. >> wherever you are, paul, is the biggest stage. don't worry. >> let me say one thing about nr. i cracked my first issue in 1989. i had a conser

who voted in favor of advancing the bill and cutting off debate and voting if favor of the bill on the senate floor and sending it over to the house. that 60 number was lost shortly thereafter and that's why the original projections was the affordable care act as passed through the senate could not pass in the house but eventually it did pass in the house. that brought us to where we are today. this time perhaps approaching it with a different approach, reconciliation was sort of the batting clean up on the affordable care act when it passed in 2010. reconciliation rather than being the last act is first act because of the senate rules that things can pass with 51 senators on a budget reconciliation vote. we don't have 60 senators to work with on the republican side. >> i want to talk about the senate. just thinking a bit more about the house. the republicans study yesterday printed out a little brochure of their demands. >> these are ideas. >> there are several things involving taxes and medicaid. how likely it those might be incorporated as we go forward, do you think? >> those are i

several important bills from the veterans' affairs committee. first, h.r. 1181 is, the veterans second amendment protection act sponsored by chairman phil roe, which ensures that the second amendment rights of v.a. beneficiaries are not restricted without due process. next, h.r. 1259, the v.a. accountability first act, also sponsored by chairman roe, which grants the v.a. secretary increased discretion to remove our suspend v.a. employees due to poor performance. finally, h.r. 1367, sponsored by representative brad wenstrup, which enhances the v.a.'s ability to recruit and retain highly qualified employees. the failures at the v.a. are well documented and completely unacceptable. these bills are a step in the right direction towards creating greater accountability at the v.a. and keeping our promise to america's veterans who have sacrificed so much for us. i thank the gentleman. yielding i yield to back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that information. and i would now like to ask him we passed the dodd -- d.o.d. appropriation bill and sent that to the senate, mr. leader. e

republican healthcare bill is set to happen in a half hour according to the white house. with paul ryan just paying a visit to trump apparently to tell him they don't have the votes. the president says it's now or never. the president is taking aim at opponents with a warning on twitter. but what a holdout is telling the white house to back off. the head of the house intelligence committee cancelled a hearing on russia. the pop democrat says the chairman may be too close to the white house to run a fair investigation. now the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort is offered to talk to the committee. lots of questions about his ties to allies vladimir putin. a busy news day. let's get to it. first from the fox news deck this friday afternoon, the rub push to replace obamacare may be on the verge of collapse. paul ryan has been meeting with the president at the white house and our senior capitol hill producer that could be a sign that the republicans may not have the votes to pass the gop healthcare plan. democrats stand unanimous ago it. right now, the "washington post"

number. picked it up. president of the united states said bob i'm pulling the bill. i've known him for a long time. and covered him a long time. he was pretty even tempered. said look, didn't have the votes. time to move on. >> what's the advantage of him saying he pulled it. >> ryan came and said don't have the votes what do you want to do. he said if the freedom caucus isn't going to move, isn't going to make a deal with me, we aren't going to have a vote. change of tune from the night prior. we want to have a vote. the president wants to put you all on record to vote on legislative test. had ha mark of who was with him and who was against him. ryan came to him today and said we need to do taxes and inf infrastructure, don't need the drama of the vote. >> that doesn't square with what ryan said standing behind the lectern. >> the immigration. hard line policies we've seen with executive action. i don't think trump is going to back away from that at all. he's definitely putting health care on the shelf. >> how does trump walk away from the fact he's been bragging you're going to have

week to combine the two bills. kevin mccarthy spoke about the next apps in the process and the house schedule. we also hear from democratic with denny lawyer. this is 35 minutes. tion. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, on monday, no votes are expected in the house. on tuesday, the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30. on wednesday and thursday, the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on friday, the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. last votes of the week are expected no later than 3:00 p.m. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be announced by close of business today. in addition, the house will consider several important bills from the veterans' affairs committee. first, h.r. 1181 is, the veterans second amendment protection act sponsored by chairman phil roe, which ensures that the second amendment rights of v.a. beneficiaries are not restricted without due process. next, h.r. 1259,

replacing obamacare. he's now the secretary of h.h.s. that is the bill, the plan that we ran on in 2016, we told america, here's our vision for how we replace obamacare, after we repeal obamacare. that's the bill we're working on right now. that's the bill we're working on with the trump administration. we're all working off the same piece a of paper, the same plan. so we're in sync. the house, the senate, and the trump administration, because this law is collapsing. and you can't just repeal. it you have to repeal it and replace it with a system that actually works and that is exactly what we're doing. i'm perfectly confident that when it's all said and done, we're going to unify. because we all, every republican, ran on repealing and replacing and we're going to keep our promises. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2017] >> the u.s. house finished up legislative work for the week. they're back in session on tuesday. bef

flew this monday morning. hope you had a great weekend. i'm bill hemmer back in the newsroom with you. >> shannon: lots happened. >> bill: my sense is a lot will still happen again. we're not through it yet. >> shannon: i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum and in the fallout president trump with a warning if you won't help pass the agenda he'll reach to the other side. here's the chief of staff, reince priebus. >> this is a president who wants to provide and you're right he wants to make sure people don't get left behind and make sure there's competition in the marketplace so rates are lower and people can choose their doctor. if those three things are incompatible with some members of the republican house it's going to be incompatible and we need to work with moderate democrats to make sure that happens. >> shannon: chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn this morning. good morning, john. >> good morning. the president is clearly blaming conservative republicans and outside groups for having to pull the bill on friday tweeting out democrats are sm

getting the parties on the same line that still making sure they passed a bill that the senate would then also passed to get to the president. williams reporting on twitter. thank you for the update. >> the house budget committee voted 19 to 17 to advance the republican plan to repeal and replace the federal health care law. three republicans voted against the measure. meetingre committee lasted just under five hours. theoday we meet to report recommendations to the committee. the concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 2017. under the congressional budget act of 1974, the budget committee has the role of combining the reconciliation submissions of the committee ways and means, energy, and commerce, and reporting the bill to the house without any substantive or divisions -- revisions. after reporting the measure, the committee will conclude with final motions. markups my capacity -- will be as follows. the ranking member and i make the opening statement. i asked that members insert their statements into the record. i will hold the record open until the end of the day

. ci >> mr. speaker, this week we will consider the most important bill the house will consider in this congress. every day we are hearing froms more and more republicans in the houshouse and the senate that oe the dangerous health care bill on the floor this week. fo republicans said the following, very conservative republican a said while i've been in congresi i cannot recall a more detested piece of legislation van this gop health care bill or no caret bill. this is just the most recent in a long list of statements by republicans under the merits of the bill to repeal the affordable care act. it's interesting that they named it the american health care act. the only thing that struck was affordable. it should tell you something about the bill. they replace it with a system that requires americans to pay more and get less. the bill has been rushed through the committee without a singleit public hearing, no testimony or expert view and when the committees marked it up they didn't have the score that is washington speak for the agency that i is nonpartisan, bipartisn with a directo

taking up eight small bills dealing with the department of homeland security. there will be votes after 6:30 eastern today. live coverage when the house gavels in here on c-span. on c-span2 today we showed you the confirmation hearing for neil gorsuch to be the next supreme court justice. coverage of that started at 11:00 a.m. live coverage tomorrow at 9:00. live now to the house. 20 the chair will postpone further pr seedings today on notions to suspend the rulesed on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or on which the vote incurs objection under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules as pass h.r. 1029 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1029 a bill to amend the federal pesticide if you thinkside and rodenticide act to extend and modify key authorities and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from i

the bill online at www.c-span.org. paul ryan announced he had the votes necessary to pass the legislation through the house. let's watch. >> hey everybody. afternoon. is the american health care act. it has been a long time coming. keeps our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. delivers relief to americans fed skyrocketing premiums and fewer choices. it moves us away from the broken status quo toward a better patient centered system. that means lower cost for hard-working families, more choices and competition so you can buy the plan that you need and can afford. it means greater control of your health care. yearss a culmination of long, an inclusive process we have been doing here for years. last june, as part of our better way agenda, we put forward our vision for health care. after the election, we began to work with our counterparts in the senate and with the trumpet administration. i want to thank president trump. i want to think twice president pence, and secretary price for their support and hard work and getting us to this repeal and replace point. i also want to t

once again like they did last year to refuse us to even get of the bill but i hope the fever will break and we can get into an operational mode that involves cooperation of both sides but i remain hopeful and optimistic. [inaudible conversations] >> hello everybody we will be started right away because a few members have mothering agents want to thank my colleagues to be here with me and ask just one question, trump care has been public for one week is anyone left in the country to like six trump wants to call it all right in care in he was to call it trump care how good can it be if neither one their name on it corrects doctors don't like it. patients to like and hospitals to like it when then, millenials, seniors don't like it. more and more republicans don't like it and democrats are united against it. president trump has slapped his name on buildings, it ties to mistakes, hotels mistakes, hotels, golf clubs but not on the bill that he says he supports the answer is simple that every single day we learn more and more about this bill and more and more americans turned against it

debate on that republican health care bill. you, mr. speaker. now it's my easure -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman -- the house will be in order, please. mr. hoyer: it's now my pleasure to yield to my friend, mr. mccarthy, the majority leader from california. i yield to my friend. thank the y: i gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mccarthy: a sshh. mr. speaker, before i begin, do i want to wish everybody a happy st. patrick's day. mr. speaker, on monday, the louis meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30. on tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on thursday, the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. mr. speaker, late votes are likely in the house on thursday and members are advised to adjust their schedules accordingly. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be announced at

consider f.y. 2017 reconciliation bill, also known as the american health care act. this bill eliminates the many taxes and mandates of obamacare. gives patients enhanced tools to take control of their health care decisions, and expands choice so americans are free to pick the plan that is best for themselves and their families. mr. speaker, it's known that obamacare is failing and we have a responsibility to provide americans relief. these bills are a result of much deliberation and hard work and their passage will help create a competitive marketplace that provides high quality care at an affordable cost. i thank the gentleman and i yield back and look forward to his questions. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman . i must hasten to add that he added a little comment that it is known. i don't share that view, mr. speaker, that it's known that the affordable care act is failing. in fact, we had a hearing yesterday, when the former director of the congressional budget office appointed by mocrats testified on the affordable care act and testified on the american health care act. nd lo and beh

like try to form a bill that can please everybody because it seems that the way that taxes -- sorry, sir. the taxes in the new act, i think is a more feasible option. go by people's income level and also needs. but i believe that as a whole, as a country, we need to be united in everything. host: caesar, we have to let you go as nancy pelosi is speaking to reporters now. again, we'll break away when the house comes back into session. thank you. good afternoon. i'm very proud to be here with the house democratic leadership. the unity of our house democratic members was very important message to the country. that we are very proud of the affordable care act. yesterday, as you know, was the seven-year anniversary of the president signing the bill. and the american people expressed their support for it. that message became very clear to our colleagues on the republican side of the aisle. today is a great day for our country. it's a victory. what had on the floor is a victory for the american people. for our senior, for people with disabilities, for our children. for our veterans. to be

drug prices. there are three phases of this plan. one is the bill that was introduced last evening in the house of representatives, that's the start of all of this. second are all the regulatory modifications and changes that can be put into place, as you all well know the previous administration used regulations to fairly well. there were 192 specific rules that were put out as they relate to obamacare. over 5,000 letters of guidance and the like, and we are going to go through every single one of those and make certain that if they help patients, then we need to continue them. if they harm patients or increase costs, then obviously they need to be addressed. and then there's other legislation that will need to be addressed that can't be done through the reconciliation process. so the goal of all of this is patient-centered health care for patient and families and doctors making medical decisions and not the federal government. we commend the house for the introduction of the bill yesterday and we look forward to working with all individuals in this process and look forward to a f

. but the way we got the bill passed after practically 600 days of the passing of the -- expiration of the authorization. [inaudible] that the bill that we present violence against women -- the republican bill says we're against violence against women unless those women are native american, lgbt women, or immigrant women. imagine that. that you would say you can have violence against women if it's a native american woman, an lgbt womanner or an immigrant woman. and finally we said to the speaker, let the republicans vote for this bill because this is what they believe in. but let us vote on a bill that says we do not support violence against any women. you helped with that because we did need some republican votes to pass that. but overwhelmingly, the republicans voted for the bill that accepted -- said we are against violence against women. not so fast, lgbt. >> so does bipartisan mean touf have a majority of each party? >> no i'm saying to you the 600 days the republicans resisted passing the republican and democratic bipartisan bill that passed the senate. in the bipartisan bill sen

of medicaid, the president said in the campaign he would not cut medicaid. this bill is going to reduce federal medicaid funding by about $370 billion over ten years. >> and still give better care. because we're actually giving the governors what they want. i was here with i think about 46 of state governors about two weeks ago. one of the things they kept asking for was more control over their own medicaid. i was in the state legislature, we would have begged for more control over how our medicaid dollars got spent. >> they're not begging for fewer dollars, mr. director. >> but they're begging for better control to get more efficiency and better ability to serve their people. the medicaid system today is a one-size-fits-all system. we fixed that. you can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way. >> are you saying if the congressional budget office says fewer people will be covered, many millions fewer people will be covered, the costs will be going up, that you're simply rejecting that analysis? >> i don't think the costs will go up at al

this is backroom bill will improve the lives of those struggling with the disease of addiction. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. i want to know from the gentleman -- note for the gentleman, the article referenced before from "the washington post" says the important takeaway is that there's not one opioid epidemic. >> we'll leave this here, you can continue to watch the house energy subcommittee hearing on our website. go to c-span.org. type the word opioid. u.s. house beginning legislative work shortly, beginning debate on two health insurance bills, one repealing health insurance businesses. these bills a run up to thursday's debate and vote to the health care law replacement bill. the house will meet at 9:00 eastern on thursday for that debate. live coverage of the house here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor chris bell, 3 circle church, fairhope, alabama. the chaplain: let us pray. my lord and father, i come to you in this place of government of the

what we're trying to do. we shouldn't be going backwards from the bill that we passed two years ago. so yeah, we're going to make this better. we ought to at least get to where we were two years ago. >> to be clear, all of the members present will vote against the brady-walden bill as written and the follow up is, the paul-jordan bill will it have provisions to prevent illegal aliens from participating? mr. jordan: we haven't made any formal provisions on the house freedom caucus. we're meeting tonight. that will be part of our discussion. mr. meadows: we have some serious concerns. we haven't been shy about the serious concerns as we look at that. yet with any negotiation you look at the tradeoffs, what are the risks versus the rewards and as we do that, we intebbed to have a robust debate among -- >> all of this online at c-span.org. the u.s. house gaveling in now for legislative work. four bills including re-authorizing nasa. record votes on postponed questions will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentlelady from american samoa seek recognition? mr. speaker, i yield mys

american health care act. the report shows the bill would save but at the cost of health care coverage to almost 24 million people by the year 2026. the bill did pass through energy and commerce committee on party line votes. live coverage of that meeting right now on c-span 2. >>> still awaiting the start of this house judiciary committee where members of the court will be testifying on work load and challenges facing the 9th circuit court. the 9th circuit against president trump's travel ban. we want to let you know that a subcommittee of this particular committee will be meeting this afternoon hearing about crimes against children. four law enforcement experts will be testifying on efforts to identify and prosecute crimes committed against children particularly those of a sexual nature. that hearing will get underway at 2:00 p.m. eastern live here on c-span 3. >>> while we wait for this house judiciary committee meeting to get underway on work load and challenges. 9th circuit decided against the revised travel ban. >> moments ago i learned that a district judge in hawaii, part of th

who have objections, who don't want obamacare lite, should be allowed to see the bill. >> senator, what makes you concerned that the fix is in on this, if you will? >> when we heard it was secret, we wanted to see it even more. with something secret, you do worry that people are hiding things. what we think is being hidden from conservatives is there's a lot of obamacare lite in their bill. there's a new entitlement program that will increase at about 5% a year forever. there is also a cadillac tax or something similar to the cadillac tax that was in obamacare. and there's also an individual mandate, believe it or not. instead of paying the mandate to the government, they're going to tell you you have to pay the mandate, by law, to an insurance company. so a lot of conservatives will be upset to know we're keeping those things from obamacare and there needs to be an open debate about it. so as we speak, my staff is still going around washington, looking for the bill. >> as everyone kind of understands it, the bill is being handled by the committees and is still being drafted on th

house republican who thus far is promoting no on the bill. however, he just left the meeting with president trump. i mean, two minutes ago, did they hammer out a last minute deal? headed to the camera and find out straight ahead. >>> also ahead, what the vote means to your money. the three market scenarios that could play out and how to position your portfolio as we await the big vote. later, big bullish bet on energy. one analyst says this oil stock is about to double. the name and so much more coming your way. power lunch starts right now. >>> thanks, michelle. stocks are moving higher, a little off if the health care vote passes, that signals the rest of the president's agenda, including tax reform, will get done. the dow is up just under one-half of 1%. disney popping, that on news bob will be the ceo, all the way through july 2019. speaking of disney, the vacation trade working today. carnival, royal caribbean, and wynn hitting new 52-week highs. melissa? >> thank you. i'm melissa lee. one american among the dead in yesterday's terrorist attack in london. three others killed,

bill, the replacement plan for the 2010 health care law, the affordable care act. if you want to see this hearing again we will show you a portion in just a moment. you can also see last weeks ways and means committee meeting and the markup in energy and commerce. go to our website sees ben.org and type in health care legislation. today's hearing got underway at about 10 o'clock eastern this morning and again we will show you a portion of hearing beginning now. >> the committee will now come to order. ask the numbers to take their seats. today we meet to report the recommendation submitted to the budget committee pursuant to reconciliation instructions set forth in title two of s. con. res. three, the concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 2017. under the congressional budget act of 1974 the budget committee has the role of coining the reconciliation submissions of the committees on ways and means and energy and commerce, and reporting the bill to the house without any substantive revision. after reporting the measure that committee will conclude with any final m

of the senate rules. we don't want to put something in this bill that the senate is tell us is fatal to the bill being brought up in the senate. so that's why we're going to pass the best possible legislation we can. we got it there. of the president helped negotiate these changes. send it over to the senate and the senate without jeopardizing the bill can make improvements to the bill but if we do it here we'll jeopardize the entire bill. i think people respect and understand this legislative process. i think members once they realize this in the final analysis that we're getting the vast majority of the things we think should be in this day and at the end of the day there really is a choice. do you want to stick with the obamacare status quo? do you want to stick with the idea we made a promise and we are not keeping it? or do we want to replace this law with a much better law, something that makes good on our principles and gets our country in the right track? i think i feel very good. the president, i got to say, the president just came here and knocked the ball out of the park.

chairman of the house ways and means committee and committee of announcing the bill. >> good morning. yesterday, the house energy and commerce committee and the house ways and means committee released the american health care act. it's the budget reconciliation legislation as part of the house republicans' efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. after years of broken promises, we are proud to put forward a plan that represents a better way for patients and for american families. and this morning, health and human services secretary tom price sent us a letter on behalf of the trump administration in support of our legislation. that's a first step on the path to fulfilling our promises to the american people. we welcome president trump and secretary price's support. we will continue to work with them to get this bill passed into law. let me be clear. our plan is the first step. under our plan, we are moving forward in a positive direction to rescue the individual insurance market and to give flexibility to our states. we are protecting those patients living with pre-existing c

the people who are supposed to be sovereign? and i say the people. this bill only favors the interests of the already powerfulful to the detriment of the vast majority of the american people. . the bill requires a party seeking class certification to show that every potential class member suffered the same type and scope of injury at the certification stage. something that's virtually impossible to do. this requirement alone would the death nell for class actions. which are the principle means we have in court for consumers to hold wrong doctors accountable without having to engage in multiably due publictific actions all over -- duplicative actions all over a state or all over the country, spiling -- piling up the expenses for courts. most importantly, class actions make it feasible for those who have smaller but not inconsequential injuries, to get justice. these injuries include divert matters like products liability and employment discrimination sand sexual harassment and so on. it's already very difficult to pursue class action. under current law, the court strictly limit the grou

right now. >>> breaking news, late night on capitol hill with the gop's health care bill hanging in the balance. this is "cnn tonight," i'm dmchlt thanks for joining. do or die time. hours to go before house votes on plan to repeal and replace obamacare. paul ryan working hard, donald trump warning republicans they could lose seats if they fail. and all the president's men, paul manafort, michael flynn, roger stone to name a few. do they have ties to russia and will they come back? get to cnn reporter nia-malika henderson. and -- and david axelrod. nia start with you. walk us through the changes made to the health care bill. who are they aimed at winning over and are more changes coming here? >> if you listen to president trump says more changes coming. in some ways not something that paul ryan necessarily wants to hear but music to people in the house freedom caucus who want to see more done in terms of medicaid, one of the changes is allow medicaid states to grant the funding. important to the freedom caucus as well. change being made in terms of how medicaid is funded in new york. up

assured us, the bill that was introduced last night is still open for negotiation and certainly for modification. we took that is very encouraging news, not because of any particular position that we have, but because it's good news for the american people. i had the opportunity to campaign with president trump all across north carolina. one of the things that he talked about was repeal and replacement. when he said that, it took on two different meanings. a repeal to many meant that we would repeal the entire obamacare plan. all the taxes, all the mandates, expansion.d and when he talked about replacement, it took on another meeting to others, which it meant that we needed to cover conditions,ting making sure that people didn't get kicked off of their health care plan, making sure there was an adequate safety net. i can tell you those two things are so the focus of not a lead the house freedom caucus, but my ,ood friends, senator lee senator rand paul, senator ted cruz. today, welook at this will be talking about a number of scores in the upcoming days. what this score means and wh

republican bill to repeal the affordable care act. although trumpcare failed the debate on health care is far from over. i hope that speaker ryan will reach across the aisle so we can improve the law that works and more popular than ever. thanks to the a.c.a. more than 20 million more americans are insured. people with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied. consumers are protected from the worse abuses of the insurancetry. industry. there are parts of the law that can be improved and that's what we should work on. the republican bill never tried. not one public hearing was held on that bill. their complete of lack of transparency in the republican leadership tried to ram it through without public comment. we worked on the a.c.a. for more than a year before there was a final vote. trumpcare was voted on in only 18 days after it was introduced. 18 days. a bill that would cut 24 million americans from health care. as ranking member of the energy and commerce health subcommittee, i hope to work with my colleagues on a bipartisan solution to improve the a.c.a. thank you, mr.

have liked to prevailed with dealing with the senate on this bill. there are some things we think we can do for the individual market and the rest. we like to work with him on that if he has the interest of the american people at heart. but he's talking politically there. and this isn't about politics. if there's anything that's personal in public policy it's health care. and the american people know that their members are hearing from them on this score and what people are telling them is i wouldn't be alive today without the affordable care act. people have benefited from the affordable care act. ironically -- i don't know if that's the right word -- sadly, people who will lose care because of the -- if the republican plan were to prevail, which i doubt it will, are people who voted for donald trump, many of them. you know where the benefits will if for all that $600 billion? largely blue states. you know where some of the benefits will be lost? largely in red areas. it's a very sad transfer of wealth. but it's an ideological thing with the republicans, and i don't think the pre

the american people that the bill that was introduced last night is still open for negotiation and certainly for modification and we took that as very encouraging news not because of any particular position that we have, but because it's good news for the american people. i had the opportunity to campaign with president trump and cross north carolina one of the thing he is talked about was repeal and replacement. what he -- that took on two different meanings. repeal meant that we would repeal the entire obamacare plan. all the taxesing all the mandate the medicaid expansion. and when he talked about replacement it took on another meaning to others which meant we needed to cover the pre-existing conditions, making sure that people didn't get kicked off their health care plan. making sure that there was an adequate safety net. i can tell you that those two things are still the focus of not only the house freedom caucus but my good friends, senator lee, senator rand paul, and senator ted cruz. as we look at this today we're going to be talking about a number of scores in the upcoming

knew what was in the bill but people in order to experience what it was offering, they needed to have some interaction with it. isn't that a essential what paul ryan is saying? >> thank you for asking that question. because you can put in, put it in context, the senate had not acted they were asking about the impact of the bill so we have to pass it, we have to get through the legislative process, but all of us learned of the limitations of the bill, there are some things we could do to improve to the limitation of the affordable care act right now, and i wish the republicans would work with us to do that, we can work with them to do that, but what we have put forth is a terrible bill, 24 million people kicked off of health insurance, which the speaker calls an act of mercy. an act of mercy. and at the same time they put out a budget which the director mulvaney says is compassionate, to take money from -- and give it to the department. we all want to support, we have taken an oath to defend and protect our country but the strength is measured in more ways than just taking money from t

. it's the third committee part of -- committee to debate this bill as part of our open and transparent regular order process. we look forward to strong support there. putting us another step closer to keeping our promise, keeping our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. from there, the bill will go to a fourth committee before it goes to the house floor. lastly, as we have said from the start, repeal and replace will be a step-by-step approach. that is why yesterday the majority leader announced that the house will be considering additional legislation. these include reforms like eliminating the antitrust protections that create more competition. this will help make sure that people are not left with few or no choices like we're seeing across the country. allowing small businesses to pull together across the country giving our small businesses more , purchasing power so they will have more choices and lower costs, and they will be able to harness the power of bulk buying like large companies do. medical malpractice reform. that helps prevent abuse lawsuits. that helps c

they assembled up in the rules committee. we had a very vigorous and open debate about the bill, about the effects of the bill and about the things which were occurring within the republican majority dealing with the united states senate, dealing with the president of the united states. all three are necessary to agree upon a bill if we are to sign it into law. there was a vigorous demand from democrats to know more information, and i believe i forthrightly attempted to answer those questions. we did not have all the pieces of the puzzle together. we recognized that by the evening hour. and so about 11:00 last night upon my consultation with the gentleman, the ranking member, mr. mcgovern, i made a decision that we would not stay up uring the evening. we would ask that we would come back today, so we did not actually complete our work last night. i am here today because last night the rules committee issued a rule, a rule that would be a same-day rule. the issues really don't change. information is necessary for us decision. informed that is a change. i told the gentleman, mr. mcgovern

raising because they know when the american people find out what's in this bill they won't support t let me tell you what trump care does, mr. speaker. gives huge tax cuts to insurance companies in the top 1%. it allows insurance companies to raise premiums by 25% for older americans. eliminates funding for planned parenthood, denying millions of women critical care. it cuts lifesaving support for children, nerable, americans with disabilities, the prail elderly, and nursing home residents. and it slashes funding for medicare. trump care is children, americans with a great deal for the wealthy, trump care is a great deal for insurance companies and drug companies. it's a raw deal for everyone else. millions will lose health care coverage and let's be clear, people are going to die when this happens. millions more will end up paying more for lower quality care and republicans don't even have a plan to pay for their proposal. after seven years, this is it. this is the best they've got. tax cuts for the rich and bad health care for everyone else. working families deserve better. i yield bac

buy some of the provisions put into the bill, especially last night when they removed the essential benefits. tomorrow, the 51st anniversary of martin luther king jr. saying it is each that mr. clyburn quotes often to us. of all of the forms of and equality, inequality and health care is probably the most inhumane hundred and, consultancies to death. that is the spirit in which we can to this debate. honoring the valves of our founders of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. it is about our country and the vision of our founders. it is about our faith and about the unity of the democrats united by our values. mr. hoyer: this is a good day for the american people. we worked over years. to assure the american public would have access to affordable, quality health care. we went a long way towards that effort. much of the credit for that bill goes to then speaker pelosi, now leader. who was indefatigable in her advocacy to ensure that every american would have the security of having the availability of health insurance. this bill went down today. it went down today because the m

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republicans want president trump did not just be tweeting about speaking out about the bill that paul ryan introduced last night. talking about what was happening behind the scenes, when you have the fbi director james comey apparently going to several reports, urging the department of justice to put out a statement correcting the record, correcting the president, that is just putting this white house on the defensive, not allowing itself to really put its best foot forward. there is a separate issue, issue that a lot of civil libertarians are concerned about, but not the issue this white house really wants to be talking about right now. >> jenna: interesting juxtaposition, get caught up in the language of wiretapping, fisa, all this other stuff and wonder is there a bigger story that we should be asking questions about? in the meantime, we are asking back and forth over twitter. there is an interesting judgment call editorially to have to make every day for a journalist, how this might be handled at the white house briefing we are awaiting. >> absolutely. i think you are seeing lawma