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Mike Collins: I appreciate that because there are many people in America right now who remember just a few years ago when there was…

On the recordOctober 27, 2015
I appreciate that because there are many people in America right now who remember just a few years ago when there was plenty of hot rhetoric coming from this Chamber, and it is really punishing the American people now. It is called ObamaCare. It is called Dodd-Frank. I guess the warm winds are still blowing. It is amazing to me that when you look at this--and I can go back in history--and I think the one thing that we maybe can come to an agreement on is when you govern and when you are in the majority, you pass bills that reflect your majority values. You do not reflect, in this case, an administration that happens to have different values. We are continuing to work for the American people, just as my friend when he was in the majority--as he said, he sat in the chair as a freshman--they would have passed bills that, oh, by the way, probably wouldn't have made it through that Republican administration. Some got vetoed. And if it did get vetoed, you would come back and work the process of an override, and that can happen. The problem here is I believe--and this is just fundamental--I believe that we can work on different ideas. There are things that the gentleman from Colorado and I can agree on or disagree on.…
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Mike Collins
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Oct 27, 2015

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