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Leader Pelosi.  We had votes, so we will have to go quickly here.  Sorry for the delay.  Last time we were together was following the collapse of TrumpCare.  And since then, President Trump has said it wasn't his idea in the first place, he wanted to do tax reform first anyway.  The Speaker has now said he needed TrumpCare first.  I don't know if you saw this morning he said – this was very instructive.  I usually don't come here and talk about what the Speaker said on TV in the morning.  But what he said was, we couldn't have done taxes first because we had to do the repeal first, because we needed that $1 trillion in order to do the tax reform.

As Leader Pelosi and Leader Schumer write, "Democrats have always been ready to work across the aisle to improve and update the Affordable Care Act.  It is our hope that we can work together to prevent the increase in premiums and other health care costs for hard-working Americans, including the soaring cost of prescription drugs – a vital issue you have raised in the past."