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On the recordJanuary 7, 2011
Today is the beginning of a process by which the Republicans will try to repeal the affordable health care bill. It is about 50/50 in popularity in America. How can a bill with such individual constituent elements that are so popular, such as keeping young people on your insurance until they're 26, eliminating the doughnut hole, and seeing to it that there are more community health centers, be so unpopular? Because the Republican mantra has been--and it was even said today--that it is a government takeover of health care. PolitiFact, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic group from the St. Petersburg Times--a nonpartisan group--said that was the biggest lie in political 2010. Instead of reading the Constitution yesterday, maybe we should have just repeated ``do not bear false witness.''
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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The speaker addresses the Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and its popularity.

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