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Peter Roskam: “The State of Washington is cutting the working health care for the working poor? That's what we heard a minute ago. But…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2010
The State of Washington is cutting the working health care for the working poor? That's what we heard a minute ago. But wasn't it just an argument just a couple of months ago, Mr. Chair, that if this body took up the ObamaCare that basically the birds were going to be chirping and the sun was going to come out and the clouds were going to part and the economy was going to be fabulous and we were not going to have another health care problem again? But what happened? Running ramrod through this body ended up a job-killing health care bill, and now we're wringing our hands. It's amazing to me.
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Peter Roskam
Republican · Illinois
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Dec 16, 2010

Editor's note · Context

Roskam criticizes the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care for the working poor.

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