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On the recordJune 13, 2018
I wish to thank my colleague from Virginia for his personal, compelling reason why what the administration is doing is so wrong. That could happen to anyone, and does happen to everyone, and I so appreciate that. I thank my colleague from Connecticut for bringing us together today to highlight this. There is so much going on in the country, and we don't want this to get lost because it will impact every single family. We are here today to talk about President Trump's ongoing effort to sabotage healthcare for literally millions of families in our country. As we talked about last week, the Trump-Pence administration showed, once again, that there is no limit to how low and how baseless they will go to appeal to extreme Republican donors and their special interests. President Trump's Department of Justice announced it will ignore years of precedent and abandon its duty to defend our laws in court. It will abandon our laws that prevent insurers from denying people with preexisting conditions coverage or charging people more because of their gender or raising premiums without limit for seniors. This decision also makes it clear President Trump is ignoring the lessons he should have learned last year.…
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington
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Jun 13, 2018

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