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Shelley Moore Capito: “They want to double down on the failures of Obamacare.”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Speech on Senate Floor on Healthcare Reform

Published | Video Starts at 07:09

So instead of doing their job and simply reopening the government, this is not a hard exercise here. This has opened the government. They want to make these temporary giveaways permanent. They want to double down on the failures of Obamacare. We're not even talking about the cost of health care. Hardly. That whole argument is getting lost on this. A system that they admitted, have admitted on this floor has not been working and it has irrational demands. (07:09–07:12)

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Asserts that [Democrats] want to continue policies associated with Obamacare, which she views as failures.

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