Let me just start off by once again talking about why we are in this shutdown. And we are in the shutdown because we refuse to allow the American health care system to collapse. We refuse to allow 15 million Americans to be thrown off the health care they have. and another 30 million people to see their rates double, and in some cases, more than I just got. And Peter, my colleague from Vermont, knows this. (05:31–05:37)
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