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Affordable care act has been expanded, of course, to make it stronger, but also to include the people who were not covered in the states that did not expand medicaid. we don't expand medicaid, we expand the affordable care act to enable those folks to have -- those families to have access to the affordable care act. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformational. it's transformative and cause for celebration. on the health side, there are many aspects to it. but that one makes a drastic difference. and then when we go to the third bucket, climate, w...

Affordable care act. the affordable care act has been expanded, of course, to make it stronger and also to include the people who were not covered in the states that department did not expand medicaid. we do not expand medicaid. we expand the affordable care act to enable those folks -- those families to have access to the affordable care act. if that were the only thing we were doing in this legislation, it would be transformative and cause for celebration. on the health side, there are many aspects to it, but that one makes a drastic difference. and then when we go to the third bucket, clima...

To -- if we're going to be really building bab better, we have to give women the opportunity to work in the workplace, and there's about child care, home health care, universal pre-k, family medical leave, and like that. and other countries, most other countries have that. we don't. we will. and that is -- each one of those is something we fought over the years for and now it's coming together in a way that is transformative, not incremental, but transformative to what we're doing on the infrastructure side of things. they go together very well. and then when we talk about the planet, when i w...

Herono from hawaii, who said that would be difficult for somebody like her to support for obvious reasons. and nancy pelosi gave an interview to our outlet today saying she wasn't really sure what was in this. this is somebody, pelosi, who has described climate change as a flagship issue of hers. so going to be important to see how democratic leaders respond to this first proposal coming from a freshman member. >> dana: if i can interrupt you, i think we have some sound and reaction from the congress woman about the green new deal. do we have that? >> i think it is a green dream. i don't consi...

So our democracy depends on people feeling confident about their own economic well-being, the middle class. and so that. and then, of course, for me, as i said, my flagship issue as speaker before was the climate issue, we must address the climate issue as we build america in a new green way. i just want to close with one trinity story. when the bill was signed, the affordable care act, it was historic, president obama, our inspiration, our leader, just so fabulous. so secretary of hhs at the time, who helped to navigate all of this, and so we said to the president, mr. president, for this his...