John Garamendi: “I actually have seen something like this before. Last summer, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, or at least the…”

“I actually have seen something like this before. Last summer, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, or at least the attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, where 24 million Americans were going to lose their health insurance, this House rammed it right through, just totally ignoring the welfare. And I am not talking about corporate welfare. I am talking about the well-being of 24 million Americans who stood to lose their insurance. Now that is being repeated. In fact, in this legislation, there is a provision that it would only cause 13 million Americans to lose their insurance. So not only are they doing this tax scam, as the gentleman so well described it, but they put in a provision that would cause 13 million Americans to lose their insurance over the next several years, and 4 million Americans next year. {time} 1830 A person might say: What morality do you have? What are your values when you do that kind of thing? So, yes, I have seen it, and we are seeing it once again. So what is the value? It is not this. It is not the test of our progress of what we do for those who have little. It is the upside down of that. It is: How can we do more for those who have much, the top 1 percent: Mr. Cicilline is from Rhode Island. I am from California. I think the view from ocean to ocean and somewhere in between, there has got to be some sanity here, if you will.”