And we are entering campaign season, which means all courage leaves and only safe campaign reelection mode is turned on in the House of Representatives. During the longest shutdown in our nation's history, I raged against my own speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass the plan to save Americans health care and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies. The House should have been in Working every day to to fix this disaster. But instead America was force fed disgusting political drama once again from both sides of the aisle. (02:20–02:38)
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Asserts opposition to party leadership for not addressing healthcare issues during a government shutdown.
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