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On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
I know of no further debate on these amendments. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the question is on agreeing to the amendments en bloc. The amendments (Nos. 4981 and 4991) were agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. ObamaCare Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, over the last few weeks, my home State of Arizona has been thrust into the national spotlight. I wish I could say it is because of the success of our sports teams or the strength of our universities. Instead, it is because Arizona has become ground zero for the collapse of ObamaCare, leaving most of our citizens with limited choices and higher costs when it comes to the President's signature health care law, which is a law that I fought against for weeks on end and which the then-majority on the other side of the aisle, with 60 votes and without a single Republican vote and without a single Republican amendment, passed into law. In 2009 the President said: ``[I]f you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan--you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.'' Let me repeat the words of the President of the United States after, on a strict party-line basis, he passed ObamaCare: ``[I]f you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan--you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan.…
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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