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On the recordJuly 30, 2013
in response to the Senator from Utah, I would say I have because I think there is a pretty clear understanding growing every day, as evidenced by the Senator from Texas a moment ago, who went through all these groups out there, including labor unions that have now turned on ObamaCare because of what it means to their members. So it is increasingly established how much damage this law is doing. The question I get, I say to the Senator from Utah, is, What can we do about it? There is almost this resignation by people that, well, what can we do about it? It is already in place. Is there anything we can do? So I think there are three things we should be able to do, and I will summarize those fairly quickly. The first thing we should do is not continue to double and triple down on these things. I think both the Senator from Texas and the Senator from Utah grew up at the same time as I did, so they will remember something that a lot of the younger people here probably do not remember. There was a time when Coca-Cola came out with something called New Coke. It was a new Coca-Cola formula. After about 100-some years, they changed the formula of Coca-Cola and they came out with something called New Coke. It was a disaster. Everybody hated it. In fact, they hated it because--they said: If we want to drink something that has that kind of sweetener, there are other options on the market. We like old Coke. What did Coca-Cola do when New Coke began to flounder?…
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Marco Rubio
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