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On the recordSeptember 24, 2013
I would like to respond to that. If this were a courtroom--and you are an attorney, and I once practiced law myself--I would say: Your Honor, the witness refused to answer the question about his very own health insurance policy. Now let me address the issue about Mr. Hoffa. I have been approached by many labor unions. Some of them have Taft-Hartley plans, some of them have trust fund plans, some have multistate plans. They need provisions made in the ObamaCare law to deal with their specific circumstances. Under the ordinary course of legislative and congressional business, over the last 3 years we would have addressed these anomalies in the ObamaCare program. Sadly, we cannot get anyone to come to the table from the Senator's political party. Now 42 or 43 times the House Republicans have voted to abolish ObamaCare. Not once have they proposed sitting down to work out any differences, work out any problems within the law. I am prepared to do that. I have told the labor unions, including Mr. Hoffa, the same. I know the administration feels the same. But, unfortunately, those who are opposed to this plan want it to descend into chaos. They want as much confusion, as many problems as possible. They do not want to work to cover the 50 million uninsured in America. What the Senator just described and said he could sign up for, frankly, is ObamaCare. We are talking about a marketplace.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Sep 24, 2013

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