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On the recordNovember 17, 2010
The American people do not want to see us relitigate and redebate the health care legislation. They want some focus on job growth. But what strikes me as a bit hypocritical... there are so many Members in the House of Representatives and in the Senate who have enjoyed government health care for a decade or two or three, where taxpayers paid for their health care. Those conservative Members did nothing, zero, to help those people without insurance, to help those people who had preexisting conditions, to help those people close the doughnut hole, help senior citizens to get help on their drug costs. Now they want to repeal the health care bill. In other words, they want to keep their government insurance for themselves, but they don't seem to want to help anybody else out there. It just sickens me. More important, I don't think the public wants us to continue debating health care.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio
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govinfo.gov
Nov 17, 2010

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Senator Brown criticizes opponents of health care legislation for hypocrisy and lack of support for uninsured individuals.

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