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Affordability health care, president obama signed the affordable health care act. the bill was designed to address the two biggest problems of the american health care system. its extraordinary costs and its lack of coverage. and to do so in a way that improves, not weakens, the quality of our health care. before the bill passed, just 84% of the american people had insurance coverage and we were spending almost 18% of our gdp, 17.9% of our gdp on health care and that is about $2.5 trillion. other countries at our income level cover everybody and do it for far less cost, between 9% of gb gdp, t...

Are you ready for this? question number one, in the war of 1812, who prevailed, u.s. or canada? >> technically it was a draw, but we won, canada. >> which u.s. president got stuck in a bathtub? >> a u.s. president got stuck in a bathtub? which one didn't? i don't know. roosevelt. >> it was taft, you got to know that one. how many pounds of bacon does the average american consume every year? >> as a vegan i no longer know bacon statistics. how many pounds of bacon each year. god, if the answer's more than three we have -- >> go bigger. >> 12. >> we got burger king here. >> more than 12 pounds o...

Under no circumstances are taxes going up because the president is insisting on tax increases as part of any deal. are you going to-- can you tell the american people tonight 100% certainty, that's not going to happen in this case? >> that's not going to happen. no, no taxes are coming out of this house, i'll tell you that as the majority whip. what's more important for the american people to know, there's not a need for more taxes. for the last 40 years, the percentage of what revenue came into gdp has averaged 17.9%. and in america today more revenues, 2.7 trillion than america has ever rece...

Under no circumstances are taxes going up because the president is insisting on tax increases as part of any deal. are you going to-- can you tell the american people tonight 100% certainty, that's not going to happen in this case? >> that's not going to happen. no, no taxes are coming out of this house, i'll tell you that as the majority whip. what's more important for the american people to know, there's not a need for more taxes. for the last 40 years, the percentage of what revenue came into gdp has averaged 17.9%. and in america today more revenues, 2.7 trillion than america has ever rece...

Govern and lead. and we're willing to work with him, but he's got to come back. is there any loophole you are willing to close or deduction you're willing to get rid of? >> if you want to talk about tax reform, we're sitting and working on tax reform. you want to know the difference of what we're doing here. dave camp has put together 11 working groups bipartisan, republican and democrat sitting on ways and means looking at the overhaul of a tax reform. so we're willing to do everything, to grow the economy, not to sit back here and take out of the economy. >> and no tax increases? is that wha...