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Against the repeal. you would have thought i would have voted 65 times for or against a replacement. when they had the opportunity to do a replacement they couldnt get it together so i think it was political. i think it was political rhetoric to gin up their base and it was really sad because it misled an awful lot of people. so some of the problems with obamacare is the fact that many states have not extended medicaid and so we do need to come back and maybe now, maybe now they will look at mak...

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Be a year of governance and let 2018 take care of itself. >> speaking of 2018, you are now in a very select class of legislators which are members of congress who voted for the ahca. theres not that many. just the republican members of the commerce committee and ways and means. you now have -- you own this bill as far as your opponent is concerned, im sure. do you feel like you were hung out to dry by your leadership and the white house that made you vote for this in committee without a cbo scor...

Youre not going to throw me off of my medicaid. and i think what you saw is a rising up of the american people and it was a very important day and a very important victory. >> i couldnt help but think today about -- thinking back to the election, an election you ran in, and the woman you ran against in the primary and then endorsed in the general in which -- i read this account of donald trump talking about the bill and asking his advisers "is it really such a good bill?" because he had no comma...

Legislati legislation. i salute my republican colleagues for saying were not going to vote on this because its a bad bill. >> so that clearly played a role but it seems like the house freedom caucus was unmanageable. this was a situation where time after time after time john boehner before paul ryan tried to get the votes and couldnt deliver on their own majority. >> chris, obviously youre 100% correct. one would hope that republican leadership would take the lesson and say just as speaker boehn...

Leadership, chris. i think moving forward we have to do a better job. i do think the exchanges are a difficulty and i hope we can work together in a bipartisan capacity on this issue because i do think major reforms are necessary. >> congressman, i want to -- i am curious in your reaction. this is a wild 24 hours. i have never -- i think going back to the first tarp vote is the last time i saw something like this unfold on the house floor. when you were told the bill was pulled, a bill you were ...

>> the unity of our house democratic members was a very important message to the country that we are very proud of the affordable care act and the american people expressed their support for it. that message became very clear to our colleagues on the republican side of the aisle. today is a great day for our country. what happened on the floor is a victory for the american people. >> not long after the bill was pilled democratic congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts told me he was very happy ...

Again, thats why the way they drafted this bill, republican leadership, it was a bad bill to begin with but try to find ways to strengthen the effective implementation of the law youll take the politics out of health care. >> joe kennedy iii, pleasure. >> chris, thanks, pleasure. thank you. im joined on the phone by congressman leonard lance, republican from new jersey who was a no vote on the health care bill. congressman, are you happy they pulled the bill? how are you feeling? >> that was a...

Republican leadership thats controlling the legislative schedule at this point to do anything having to do with health care in the near future having just put their hand on a stove and come away with burns so bad theyre essentially in the e.r. youre talking about advocating a principle, because theres going to be a big fight on tax reform. its hard for me to imagine that being a legislative reality. >> thats why we have to do what they did for seven years under -- throughout all of the obama -- ...

Affect? >> i certainly tried to listen to all of my constituents. as you know, i did the two town halls, one with 1400 residents, another with 900 and weve had lots of telephone calls and e-mails on this topic and most of them were against this bill and certainly i tried to listen to constituents. you are accurate that hillary clinton carried the district by about 3500 votes. i was pleased with my reelection margin last year but chris in my judgment this year, 2017 should be a year of governance...