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For their personal involvement working the members to get this done and getting us to where we are. thank you, gentlemen. today was a big day but it is just one step in this process. an important step. we still have a lot of work to do to get this signed into law. i know that our friends in the senate are eager to get to work. they are. we are going to see that work through. do you know why we're going to see it through? the issues are too important. the stakes are just too high. the problems facing american families are real. and the problems facing american families as a result of obamacare ...

Still, they are not where democrats believed and said, six, seven years ago they would be once it was implemented. i got to think part of that is just you keep having headlines like we got this week out of iowa, you got the biggest insurer in that state moving out. you've had stories like that around the country. you had the premium spikes just before last november's election. i've wondered how big an impact -- we talked so much about comey, i wonder how much effect the premium spikes had, the news that had before the election. republicans here are saying, look, yeah, democrats are going to ta...

Jim. we just have developed a bond. this has really brought the republican party together. as much as we've come up with a really incredible health care plan, this has brought the republican party together. we're going to get this finished and then we're going, as you know, we put our tax plan in. a massive tax cut. the biggest tax cut in the history of our company. i used to say, the biggest since ronald reagan. now it is bigger than that. also, pure tax reform. so we're going to get that done next. and this really helps it. a lot of people said how come you kept pushing health care knowing h...

Face. i agree the politics are tough because it is people's lives. to stand back and not take political step after you ran against this in these three or four elections would have been political suicide. that's the suicide here. the right thing is to do the right thing. yes. it is republican votes but jennifer needs to remember, obamacare passed with democrat votes only. >> but once you get something through, you're playing defense. when you succeed and you accept responsibility for something, the voters blame you. i heard you today. you were very ambitious for this bill. you said in addition ...

The republicans obviously have been running against obamacare. obamacare never became as popular as democrats said in 2010 it would be once it was implemented. you got news this wheek oeek ou iowa, pretty much no competition left in that state. the news of the premium spikes last fall. this idea of, hey, democrats can go after the republicans and what they're passing today but they're vulnerable on obamacare. what do you say to that? >> well, first of all, it's no surprise to me that when they already start peeling it away, they already -- they've been bad mouthing it for eight years, that som...