Health Care Reform

Floor Speech

Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, between the year 2000 and 2006, the Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the White House, and they did nothing of good to help the American people. And now you listen to them and it sounds like they actually are for health care for the American people. But if they were for the American people, they would have done something in those 6 years about people being affected by rescission, by preexisting condition, by carrying young people on the health care policy of their parents until they're 26, about doing something about this doughnut hole. They'd have done something about it. But they didn't do anything other than make the problem worse.

And if you listen to them today, you would think they cared, but the evidence is before the American people, they did nothing at all. And now we are going to do something about it within a little more than 1 year of coming into office.

Who's on your side, America? You'll find out this week.

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