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Unite here represents 265,000 service workers in hotel, gaming, and other industries, and were the first national union to indorse then senator obama for president in the 2008 campaign, after he walked a picket line in a hotel in chicago and held the union signs aloft. >> they're doing the right thing. decent benefits. >> yet, as the president currently pushes a hike in the minimum wage, unite here now says the health care law will actually lead to their wages being cut by $5 an hour. >> the unions who support this white house in general saying premiums for the workers are going up and wages a...

[ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!" here in kentucky, we're seeing a dramatic example of obama care success. nearly 265,000 people have signed up through the state's online health exchange program so far. 70,000 signed up last month alone. obamacare is working, and polls show americans are rejecting the right wing'...

Send about anything. she cast the deciding vote for obama care in the first place. it's the brave new world of government incompetence that we'll live in. >> i'm mary landrieu and i approve this message. hundreds of people across the country losing their coverage. what identify said to the president is you told them they could keep it. >> landrieu introduced keeping the affordable care promise. >> senator landrieu said president obama needs to stick to his word. >> this is a promise you made. this is a promise you should keep. wow. throwing the president under the bus. >> if the elections we...

Approved this message. >> hundreds of thousands of people losing current coverage. part the administration is under pressure. >> i said you told them they could keep it. >> landrieu introduced the keeping the affordable care act promise. >> i am fixing it and i urged the president to fix it. >> she said president obama needs to stick to husband word. >> this was a promise you made and you should keep. >> wow. throwing the president under the bus. >> if the elections were in january, it's clear what would happen here. >> what would happen? >>. >> the democrats would get knocked off. the numbers...

Governor about, though, a separate issue is one thing the affordable care act does is expand medicaid to cover more of their citizens and, you know, here in louisiana, here in louisiana that, benefitted about 265,000 people. >> so there, he is making the case. of course, within like an hour of giving that speech, the republican governor of louisiana, bobby jindal puts out a statement, we will not allow president obama to bully louisiana into accepting expansion of obama care. we have rejected it in louisiana. because it would cost taxpayers $1.7 over the next ten years and move 250,000 louisia...