Jim McDermott actually said...

To say the employer mandate is connected to that really is a ruse to get us into a big argument about bringing the whole program down.

McDermott criticizes the framing of the employer mandate as a central issue.

07/16/2013

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And the efforts to interrupt that, I think, are what we are really here to talk about today.

That is too late.

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