Jim McGovern
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Sure.
My question to Representative Maliotakis is, like, where the hell have you been?
I mean, you're a Republican.
Your party's in charge.
We've been talking about this issue for months.
Mm-hmm.
This is not something- Since before the shutdown.
Right, since before the shutdown.
Well before, we've been talking about it during reconciliation, right?
So we go back months and months and months.
And we've been saying we've got to focus on this.
And all we've been hearing from Republicans is like, oh yeah, we'll get to it, we'll get to it.
And now we're out of time.
People are going to lose their health insurance.
Healthcare ought to be considered a fundamental human right for everybody in this country.
I mean, you need healthcare.
If you don't have healthcare, you end up in an emergency room.
Right.
I mean, this is crazy.
So look, there are a number of discharge petitions that have been introduced with various approaches to helping people afford their health insurance.