Ed Markey: “I thank the gentleman from Colorado. We are just hours removed from House Republicans' voting to take away health care…”

“I thank the gentleman from Colorado. We are just hours removed from House Republicans' voting to take away health care for 30 million Americans and put the insurance companies back in charge of our health care system. And it's back to business as usual for the GOP-controlled House. Yes, it's time to get back to more giveaways to the Nation's wealthiest companies. Because when House Republicans aren't voting to take away health care from ordinary Americans, from poor Americans, they're voting for ``wealth care'' for the most profitable industries in the history of the United States of America. In fact, the majority continues to bring largely the same legislation to the floor over and over again, only the name of the industry reaping the windfall changes. Two weeks ago, the Republican majority voted to give away nearly all of our onshore public lands to the oil and gas industry. The majority has passed bills to put rigs off our beaches in California, off our beaches in Florida, and off our beaches in New Jersey without passing any new safety requirements after the BP oil spill just 2 years ago. They have passed legislation to allow old-growth forests to be clear- cut and to hand over land to a multinational mining company without protecting Native American sacred sites or local water quality.…”