On the recordJuly 9, 2012
This week the Republican House leadership has scheduled yet another debate and vote on the House floor to take away access to health insurance coverage for tens of millions of Americans.
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congress.govThis week the Republican House leadership has scheduled yet another debate and vote on the House floor to take away access to health insurance coverage for tens of millions of Americans.
Cummings criticizes Republican efforts to repeal health insurance access.
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if we had a House and if we had a Senate that would pass legislation and we had a President that would sign it, this problem which is the subject of this hearing today could be fixed.
I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.
I can tell you that I'm at a point where I begin to wonder whether there is an empathy deficit, an empathy deficit.
How much money are we spending of the American people's dollars, their hard-earned tax dollars? How much are we spending?