Tim Scott

The Senate HELP Committee does not have jurisdiction over Medicare-related issues, so those policies would not go through his committee next Congress.

The Republican leader of HELP remains to be determined, following the loss of several high-ranking Republican members of the panel, including Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, Senator Rand Paul, a Republican physician from Kentucky, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, are the most senior Republicans expected to return to the committee.

but some of them may prioritize other committee leadership positions.

On the Senate Finance Committee, the top Democrat and incoming chair is Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who's identified expanding Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices and targeting health insurers' business practices as two items on his health policy agenda.

chagrin of many Republicans.

Indeed, because there were a lot of Republicans supportive of it, right? It's a bill that had both like Tim Scott from South Carolina and Elizabeth Warren behind it.

He said to me, that is the model going forward here, that this is going to be about, and this is of course much easier with a big majority in the House and the majority in the Senate, to find things, if they can get bipartisan support for it, great, but to pass bills and to say to Trump, look, you're either gonna be for it, or you're gonna be against it, or it's just gonna pass into law anyway.

They are figuring out how they can legislate around a president to do all the things on the economic affordability agenda that they feel like is what powered them in these midterms and that they want to continue to be the message into 2028.

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Hello, this is Kathy, and for the next hour, I'll be reading from the November 1st issue of the front section of the New York Times on the Niagara-Fontier Radio Reading Service.

Kennedy Backs Off Plan to Ban an Opioid by Christina Jewett Three months ago, federal health officials announced that the government planned to ban a potent opioid that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said put American lives at risk.

The substance was a highly addictive compound derived from the kratom leaf, a plant from Southeast Asia that is in powders and tinctures sold as energy boosters and pain relievers in convenience stores and vape shops across the United States.

Everybody has to play on the same playing field, he said, and that's all that's happened here.

The kratom industry has focused intensely on the second Trump administration from the start.

A recent New York Times investigation described how one executive, Jerry W. Ross, whose company makes a popular natural kratom drink called Feel Free, encouraged allies in the administration to target synthetic kratom products that had taken market share.

Mr. Ross declined to comment at the time.

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Hello, this is Kathy, and for the next hour, I'll be reading from the November 1st issue of the front section of the New York Times on the Niagara-Fontier Radio Reading Service.

Kennedy Backs Off Plan to Ban an Opioid by Christina Jewett Three months ago, federal health officials announced that the government planned to ban a potent opioid that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said put American lives at risk.

The substance was a highly addictive compound derived from the kratom leaf, a plant from Southeast Asia that is in powders and tinctures sold as energy boosters and pain relievers in convenience stores and vape shops across the United States.

Everybody has to play on the same playing field, he said, and that's all that's happened here.

The kratom industry has focused intensely on the second Trump administration from the start.

A recent New York Times investigation described how one executive, Jerry W. Ross, whose company makes a popular natural kratom drink called Feel Free, encouraged allies in the administration to target synthetic kratom products that had taken market share.

Mr. Ross declined to comment at the time.

So what would the bill do? So about a month ago, a bipartisan bill was introduced the Motion Picture Television and Entertainment Revitalization Act.

The bill was named by President Donald Trump and he has endorsed the bill and it is introduced in Congress and the Senate side by Senator Tim Scott and Adam Schiff, by the way, which tells you how different this issue is from most issues.

The President Trump is willing to work with Adam Schiff on this bill.

In the House, we have Congressman Nathaniel Moran from East Texas, not where you'd assume a bill like this would come from, and Linda Sanchez from California.

So Donald Trump can have another little notch on his little data center wall.

This summer, Elizabeth Warren and Republican Tim Scott did pass that bipartisan housing bill that Donald Trump, it eventually passed, but Donald Trump wouldn't signed it because he was so angry that a Democrat was on that bill.

Wow.

Really speaks well to where we're going to go for the next two years in terms of a bipartisan country.

And the man has no integrity.

Him and Tim Scott have been Donald's biggest Uncle Toms forever.

And I have no respect for him at all.

Number two, Florida is a worldwide refugee home for everybody who hates woke.

Excuse me, let me try that again.

There are three women that are competing for the Democratic nomination to take on Senator Tim Scott.

Scott has no Republican opposition.

He's raised $44 million for his pursuit of a second full six-year term, which he has said would be his last in Washington.