House Democrat: Jamming Obamacare through Congress ‘didn’t work’

Published November 3, 2017 5:33pm ET



House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., admitted on Friday that it “didn’t work” to try to rush Obamacare through the Democrat-controlled House and Senate in 2009 and 2010, and said that shows why Republicans shouldn’t try to rush a tax bill.

“Yes, we’re replicating the Affordable Care Act,” Hoyer said on the House floor about Republican plans to rush through its tax bill. “Put on the table, quickly passed, jammed through, sent to the Senate, and it didn’t work.”

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