‘This Week’ Exclusive: Sens. Durbin and Kyl
EmailOur exclusive guests this Sunday: Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate whips from both sides of the aisle.
Lots to talk about with Congress back this week after their July 4th holiday…. and the politics of health care reform reaching a fevered pitch. Plus, President Obama visited Europe this week for the G8 and the global economic downturn was high on the agenda. We'll also look ahead to Monday when Sens. Durbin, Kyl and the rest of the Senate Judiciary Committee begin confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
We’ve got a terrific Roundtable lined up… George Will is here. He'll be joined by Donna Brazile, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and the Washington Post's Bob Woodward.
You don't want to miss this show. See you Sunday morning.
–George Stephanopoulos
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Durbin is key on food safety and Kyl is pivotal on immigration reform; I wonder if these issues will be addressed on Sunday.
Posted by: Paul Simonds | July 8, 2009, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
Thank you Senator Durbin for S.887 – A bill that will fix the Guest Worker Visas and allow Americans to compete with Cheap Foreign Labor.
Posted by: debug | July 11, 2009, 3:41 am 3:41 am
George- You should ask your guests when the US is going to get back to a democratic system!What we have now is voting season BS!You and I have 1 vote. The CEO of Mega Corp has 1 vote and 75 lobbyists.Average Joe can’t station himself in his Reps office doorway allday every day!
Posted by: Mike H | July 11, 2009, 9:04 am 9:04 am
Dear George,
I was a private practice radiologist for 20 years and I am now in academia. Only a government run program with reasonable pricies, can rein in the private insurers’ expensive policies by competing with them. As an example my wife and I while in our 50′s and in good health, were paying $10,000 a year with the largest deductible possible. Remember, those are after tax dollars.
Posted by: david desrochers md | July 11, 2009, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
As things go now with American private health insurance, a significant portion of the $$$ paid in goes to 1) dividends on stock and stock dividands and 2) payment of high salaries to management of health insurance companies. For example, a head of Aetna Health recentely retired with a fortune of more than $400,000,000! This is money that does nothing to improve the quality of care or lower cost. Competition from a gov’t sponsored and run insurance plan would introduce incentives to make private health insurance more efficient and help to curb the hemorrhage of health care dollars out of health care.
Posted by: Harte Crow | July 11, 2009, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
What! No John McCain this week?????
Posted by: Frank Schmitz | July 12, 2009, 8:02 am 8:02 am