John Garamendi: “I just put this placard up to emphasize what our Democratic Caucus is attempting to do. We have a program called ``For…”

“I just put this placard up to emphasize what our Democratic Caucus is attempting to do. We have a program called ``For the People,'' and we are trying to deal with the issues of healthcare across this Nation. We know, as do basically all the American public, that healthcare is, in many cases, not affordable. So how can we deal with this? Well, one way is to deal with the cost of prescription medicines. We have a program. We have actually voted it off the floor. It is over in the Senate where it will linger as the Grim Reaper, Senator McConnell, kills legislation that would be for the people. So this is one example of many that we Democrats are trying to address. Back in 2010, we addressed this issue, at least in part, with the Affordable Care Act, which was promptly called ObamaCare by our Republican colleagues at that time. They campaigned against it and, ultimately, succeeded in winning the House in the 2010 election, and then spent 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 in an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Fortunately, they did not succeed. When the new President, Mr. Trump, came to office, they tried, once again, to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017. They failed, largely because a Senator from Arizona, who was then suffering from cancer, voted no in the Senate. So I thank Senator McCain for having the courage and the understanding of what it meant to have a preexisting condition.…”