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On the recordNovember 15, 2013
Let me thank Congressman Waxman for giving me this opportunity. The majority has said that Presidents are remembered by certain things, and this outstanding President will be remembered because he said, if you have a plan--and he didn't say ``no matter how bad it is''--you can keep it. I think he will be remembered historically as being the first President in the United States of America that has told people that, for the first time, every American will have access to affordable health care. On the other side, history is going to record them, too. They never said that they had any concern at all and never had a plan for the 30 million people that every day are waiting for this plan to go into effect, and that they would publicly acknowledge that they don't want to improve upon mistakes that may have been made but they want to derail, to destroy, and to eliminate and to repeal universal health care for Americans. I say this. The President apologized yesterday, and I apologize for the United States Congress to those people without insurance today. If you believe that the administration has done something wrong, for God's sake, let's work together to correct it.…
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York

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