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Tammy Baldwin: “For over a year now, I've been fighting to get a bill passed…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Watch: Sens. Baldwin, Sanders and Slotkin call for 1-year extension of ACA tax credits

Published | Video Starts at 02:58

The people I work for need more than that. They need health care that they can afford, not a symbolic vote. For over a year now, I've been fighting to get a bill passed to avoid this very situation and make these tax credits permanent. My colleagues and I have tried every which way to to get this bill passed. Every time, my Republican colleagues killed the effort and put 22 million Americans on the path to pay more for health care next year for 41 days. (02:58–03:07)

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Asserts that Tammy Baldwin has been working for over a year to pass a bill to make health care tax credits permanent.

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