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On the recordJanuary 24, 2017
I appreciate the privilege to address you and the privilege to address the House here, and I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for recognizing me to say a few words here. This week, when we go down to the Mall to March for Life, we will see the tens of thousands of faces, many of them young people, especially young ladies that are there to stand up and defend life. I hear the debate here on the floor of the House of Representatives, and I have listened to the gentleman who spoke on the Democrat side of this aisle who lamented that there would be 18 million people pushed off of their healthcare if we repeal the Affordable Care Act. If you want to use the technical term, it is named the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and it is not the right name for it. It won't be 18 million. It won't be half of that. But to listen to the lament that some people might go without--not health care, that is another misnomer--health insurance for a little while, that is their concern? Well, we are here talking about more than 58 million little babies-- little babies that are created in God's image and formed in the womb, as we heard Tim Walberg speak a little earlier. They are the love of our lives.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Jan 24, 2017

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