Jamie Raskin

We will have the opportunity to pursue these issues some more, as we do whatever we can to vindicate the right to vote.

Eventually, I think--and we will talk about this another time--we will need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of every citizen to vote.

A great Republican President once spoke of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

It was a giant step forward.

They wanted to take that system down.

The other industrialized countries on earth have arrived at national healthcare plans, the kind that has proven so elusive for us.

A Medicare for All system will liberate small business in America from the obligation of trying to figure out what is the best healthcare plan for their workers.

Most small businesses hate it, because they are not in the healthcare business, right?

I think it was Ms. Turner who said we shouldn't just blow the whole system up.

They voted dozens of times to try to destroy it and not replace it, but destroy it and leave nothing there.

But I want to ask you a tough question about the transition from the Affordable Care Act to one that covers everybody.

We have a big problem when we have 30 million people uninsured, so it reduces their overall productivity as well.

Thank you for calling this historic hearing, which is a breakthrough in the national dialogue about healthcare

Even Americans who have insurance today are facing spiraling costs, and that a Medicare for All system will enable us to lower drug prices

A ridiculous amount of time spent on bureaucracy.

Now, is it going to be possible for us to move from the Affordable Care Act, with its limitations, to a Medicare for All system?

And most small businesses hate it, because they are not in the healthcare business, right?

So what we are looking for is a system that is going to serve all Americans.

Well, sometimes people think Medicare for All is just for the 30 million people who have no health insurance.

We have also had a bipartisan political consensus endorsing the scientific consensus that has suddenly been ripped apart.

We have actually had decades of scientific consensus about the anthropogenic causes and the dangerous dynamics of climate change.

I mean, it seems to me like midnight would be a reasonable time to go.

If 97 percent of the scientists told you not to drink the water in the Cannon House Office Building because it is not potable...

We are in a civilizational emergency.

So far from watering the resolution down, we strengthened that resolution. We made it a powerful statement of the values of this institution.