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Chuck Schumer: “As I said, we need to protect Americans from these rising…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Published | Video Starts at 13:36

So my question to you is, short of your bill, what commitments do you need to see? Look, I'm not going to negotiate in public. As I said, we need to protect Americans from these rising, these rising insurance rates, and we need to sit down and negotiate it. He won't even do that. So how can he say he wants to help Americans if he won't sit down? He knows he needs both sides to get it done, plain and simple. (13:36–13:47)

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Asserts the need to protect Americans from rising insurance rates through negotiation.

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