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Matt Cartwright: “I've been protesting against [the idea to change CPI] since…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

PA 8th Congressional District Debate

Published October 29, 2018 | Video Starts at 28:00

We value taking care of our seniors, not shoring up Social Security by taking money out of seniors. Cost of living adjustments. And that's an old formula, that idea change cpi. I've been protesting against [the idea to change CPI] since I started in Congress in 2013. Our values include taking care of the sick, protecting people with preexisting conditions, having a real plan to reduce the cost of prescription meds, like allowing Medicare to negotiate with it. (28:00–51:25)

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Asserts that Matt Cartwright has opposed changes to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since 2013.

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“Having a hand in bringing 600 million of your tax dollars back to Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
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“I have been repeatedly recognized as the top Democrat in the US House for reaching across the aisle and getting things done.”
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“We can do that by allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 06:06-06:12
“We'll put a bill on President Trump's desk that invests at least a trillion dollars in our roads and our bridges, our water systems and our…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 06:24-06:40
“I've been ranked the number one Democrat in introducing bills that gain Republican co-sponsors.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 11:07-11:17
“I have passed three major bills.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 11:48-11:51
“I've got Barack Obama's signature on a bill, and I have Donald J. Trump's signature on one of my bills.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 11:54-12:01
“If a person is on a terrorist watch list such that he or she is not allowed to get on a commercial airliner, that person is probably…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 13:21-13:34
“Things like expanded background checks and closing gun show loopholes, things like that.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 13:35-13:42
“We spend roughly $10,000 per capita on healthcare and we end up in terms of life expectancy. We're about number 28 on the list in the world.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 17:53-18:06
“We have hugely higher prescription med prices, which goes into that $10,000.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 18:37-18:43
“We have to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 18:43-18:50
“I also support expanding Medicare as well.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 18:59-19:03
“Medicare runs on 3% administrative expenses.”
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“It's not likely that we're going to get to Medicare for all.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 20:01-20:06
“Much more likely interim situation is allowing people ages 50 to 64 to buy into Medicare.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 20:05-20:14
“When somebody gets up and tells you $32 trillion over 10 years, what they're not telling you is the other half, which is that it's going to…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 20:15-20:28
“As many as 1600 manufacturing jobs just go away [when they moved to Mexico].”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 21:13-21:19
“The corporate tax rate should have come down, but they took it to 21% for American companies making profits in this country, but down to 15%…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 21:25-21:39
“I also voted against that tax bill because it gives 83% of the tax cuts to the top 1% in the corporations.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 21:51-22:02
“Both Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have pointed to Medicare and Social Security as responsible for creating the budget deficit.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 26:38-26:49
“These people, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, who will still be there, they will attempt to cut these programs to cut the deficit that was…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 27:11-27:23
“83% of the money going to the top 1% in the corporations.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 27:22-27:27
“John Schran got caught dead to rights talking to the young Republicans of Luzern county about how his idea for shoring up Social Security is…”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 27:41-27:58
“I've been protesting against chained CPI since 2013.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 28:00-28:05
“We don't want to do that to our seniors.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 28:04-28:07
“I believe we should have comprehensive immigration reform.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 30:12-30:16
“We have to secure our borders.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 30:15-30:18
“I am a rule of law candidate.”
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“I believe in a tough but fair path to citizenship for the people in this country.”
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“I'm not for amnesty. We tried that back in the 1980s.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 30:45-30:50
“We have to follow the law, Andy. We have to look at are there claims for asylum?”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 30:55-31:01
“Climate change is an existential issue. It's a threat.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 34:34-34:40
“Scientists know it. The great majority of thinking people understand that this is true.”
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“The Climate Solutions caucus now has 41 members of Congress who are Republicans.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 35:13-35:21
“American corporations understand the importance of [climate change].”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 35:26-35:30
“Many of the Fortune 500 American corporations have taken the green climate pledges or the we're still in Paris pledges.”
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“The low price of natural gas and the abundance of natural gas has been driving the cost of energy so low that it doesn't make financial…”
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“Coal is the huge contributor to carbon emissions and global warming and climate change.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 37:08-37:16
“There's no war on coal going on. It's just the natural market forces that are leading to natural gas winning out over coal.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 37:38-37:47
“Those deals that you put together, they cost workers 18,000 jobs. The Washington Mutual merger and also the Bear Stearns merger.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 43:40-43:51
“We have to protect our electrical grid. We have to invest in cybersecurity. We're at cyber warfare right now.”
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“I've been serving in the Congress for almost six years.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 49:52-49:57
“I made it onto the Appropriations Committee.”
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“Our values include taking care of the sick, protecting people with preexisting conditions.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 51:25-51:31
“[I have] a real plan to reduce the cost of prescription meds, like allowing Medicare to negotiate.”
PA 8th Congressional District Debate | Uploaded October 29, 2018 | 51:31-51:38