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To repeal the affordable care act, and thats when things started to change in lauren underwoods life. >> good morning, everyone. its lauren underwood. we are here in naperville. hi! lauren underwood. i want to remind you to vote. im lauren underwood. im licensed as a nurse. i spent my career working to expand health care in communities across the country. >> im lauren underwood. nice to meet you. >> when the 2016 election happened, i was faced with this america on tv that didnt look like anythin...

To repeal the affordable care act, and thats when things started to change in lauren underwoods life. >> good morning, everyone. its lauren underwood. we are here in naperville. hi! lauren underwood. i want to remind you to vote. im lauren underwood. im licensed as a nurse. i spent my career working to expand health care in communities across the country. >> im lauren underwood. nice to meet you. >> when the 2016 election happened, i was faced with this america on tv that didnt look like anythin...

Im lauren underwood. im licensed as a nurse. i spent my career working to expand health care in communi communities. when the 2016 election happened, i was faced with this america that didnt look like anything i knew. being a young millennial women of color is certainly a lot for some people. no one invited us to this table. >> im so proud of you. >> no one. and i think thats also what makes it so powerful. >> after the 2016 presidential election with her hometown congressman voting to get rid o...

Tv that didnt look anything like what i knew. in a district thats never elected a woman, seeing a young woman of color is certainly a lot for some people. know one invited us to this table. >> im so proud of you. >> no one. and i think thats always what makes it so powerful. >> after the 2016 presidential election, with her hometown congressman voting to get rid of the affordable care act, lauren underwood decided she would run for congress. 32 years old, never run for anything. shes from the 14...

>> im so proud of you. >> no one. and i think thats also what makes it so powerful. >> after the 2016 presidential election with her hometown congressman voting to get rid of the affordable care act, lauren underwood decided she would run for congress. 32 years old, shes never run for anything. shes from the 14th district in illinois, which is solid red part of the state, so trump district. 86% of that district is white. voters there have never sent a person of color there to congress, theyve ne...

Rob: they are hesitant to do anything to add to the national debt, we are $20 trillion and a lot our fiscal conservatives. you cut this dramatically, will they be on board with this? >> reporter: we saw with healthcare, it came time and again. job creation, working families stand to lose how economist peter morici was on this program earlier put it, take a listen. >> big benefits of ordinary working americans and any congressman voting against it is going to be exiled. >> reporter: we should not...

The margin that obama had in 2009 or 10 -- >> 2010 by the time -- >> right, but the -- we actually have a better margin because in the senate, they need all 60 votes. they had 60 but needed 60 because they werent going through the reconciliation. they needed super majority to do the policy that trent franks wants to do. they had the votes but couldnt lose one. we lose two. >> a little more point of order. i have a little piece of news from a republican who said to me that congressman meadows tol...