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Steve King: “But the American people have rejected the very idea that the Federal Government would do what it would do, take over 100…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2010
But the American people have rejected the very idea that the Federal Government would do what it would do, take over 100 percent of the health care in America and all of the health insurance policies that are in America, and, by the way, if they say that they won't, but they'd actually regulate every single one, it's true. The real utter irony that we have, Mr. Speaker, is that not since 1973, since Roe v. Wade, have there been thousands and thousands of people who have stood up and said the government has no business telling a woman what she should do with her body. That is a sacrosanct decision made by the woman and her doctor and her pastor or her priest.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Feb 22, 2010

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The speaker addresses government involvement in health care and women's reproductive rights.

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