when is enough? And we watch these young people from the high schools, and I heard one in effect say, you know, we are kids, we cannot fix this. You adults get over it and deal with it.
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What junk insurance is all about is making sure that insurance companies can charge more for people with pre-existing conditions and include arbitrary caps on the amount of care.
The Trump agenda of health care discrimination turns against older Americans.
We know something about pre-existing conditions, and this does not protect people with pre-existing conditions.
The agenda of health care discrimination is out in force in this Trump budget.
The Trump prescription drug plan lets pharmaceutical companies keep on--to borrow a phrase--getting away with murder.
it is time to get over it. It is time to act. And we have learned in the last 24 hours enough is enough.
This is going to be a question of whether the Department is going to say Federal law... controls.
I have been very interested in waivers--a lot of Senators have--but this is not a waiver.
Idaho's insurance bulletin would allow insurers to sell individual market plans that do not comply with federal law.
So this idea that we are going to just sit in our offices back here and wait for somebody to tell us, oh, we are going to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, that will not cut it with me.
As of now, CEOs have spent 20 times more on corporate buybacks than on boosting employees' compensation.
I have repeatedly asked the Treasury Department to turn over to the committee its records on Russian financial transactions in the country.
The IRS might not be anybody's favorite Federal agency, but the American people do expect it to function without political agenda or interference.
the Trump infrastructure plan dumps huge costs onto States and cities, sells off public assets like an auction at a county fair, and raises transportation costs for hard-working families.
So it seems to me you are definitely agreeing with the officials who were quoted last weekend.
So we were told on the floor of the Senate last December that early this year we would see workers have bulging paychecks.
Since Republicans jammed this massive corporate tax cut through Congress, major corporations have spent over $120 billion on stock buybacks.
Sometimes it reminds me of the marquee at the old movie house where these so-called 'fixes' are supposed to somehow show up and never get there.
If you want big-league infrastructure, a good place to start is not making huge cuts to infrastructure programs that already work.
That means CEOs have spent 20 times more on corporate buybacks than on boosting their employees' compensation.





