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On the recordMarch 24, 2017
There are a lot of charges and allegations being made about what this bill would do, and the reality, Mr. Speaker, is we are living today in the world that they have created on the other side of this aisle. We are living today in a world with skyrocketing costs, plummeting choices, and broken promises across the board. When you talk about the situation with respect to women in particular, when you talk about what is going to happen with maternity care and with child care, Mr. Speaker, there is a fundamental difference between what they believe on that side of the aisle and what we believe over here. What we believe over here is that every American--every individual, and in that, we Republicans include women--we think women ought to have the right to make their own choices and their own decisions about care. We know that the kinds of insurance--the so-called insurance--that has been provided under ObamaCare means that women have been denied access to things like maternity care. When you can only get a policy with a $6,000 deductible, that is not care and that is not insurance.…
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Liz Cheney
Republican · Wyoming
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Mar 24, 2017

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