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On the recordJanuary 12, 2016
I was proud to have voted for the Affordable Care Act and proud to vote 62 times not to go into the political demagoguery of trying to repeal what is one of our Nation's best efforts at joining the rest of the industrialized and civilized Nations in having health care for its people.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers defends the Affordable Care Act and criticizes attempts to repeal it.

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