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On the recordNovember 13, 2013
Madam President, the question of the week is, more important than apologizing, will President Obama live up to his promise that Americans can keep the care they have and like? Democrats are clearly running away from embracing this law and are suggesting the President live up to his promise as well. Yesterday former President Clinton said: I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the President should honor the commitment the Federal Government made to those people and let them keep what they got. That is from former President Clinton yesterday in a interview he did. More and more we see people on the Democratic side of the aisle coming forward, acknowledging what many of us have been acknowledging for a long time; that is, this is not living up to expectations. We need a timeout. It is clearly not working, it is not ready for prime time, and it is obvious that we need to acknowledge that and come up with plan B. Senator Durbin, here in the Senate, said in an interview Tuesday that the cancellations of their coverage that people might face under ObamaCare and the statement that people could keep their plans ``should have been clarified.'' Democratic Representative Kurt Schrader from Oregon thinks the President was grossly misleading to the American public and said: I think the President was grossly misleading the American public.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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