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On Fox News Sunday, Speaker Ryan was asked about the burdensome premiums that older Americans would pay under the Republicans' TrumpCare bill, and gave misleading information about the bill's tax credits:

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined John Dickerson on CBS’ Face the Nation to discuss how TrumpCare and the Trump budget blueprint will devastate working families, as well as the need for an investigation into Russian interference in our election and the Kremlin’s personal, political and financial grip on the Trump White House.

One of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's most infamous quotes was something she said during a 20-minute speech to the National Association of Counties' 2010 legislative conference. Congress was considering the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the endless, breathless coverage of the contentious process, Pelosi explained, was preventing people from appreciating the significance of its contents.

"We have to pass the bill," she said, "so that you can find out what is in it — away from the fog of the controversy."

Conservatives — abetted by dozens of political journalists who should have known better — immediately seized on a truncated version of the quote. Pelosi was really expressing her confidence in the underlying merits of the bill, but it became instead a shorthand for the allegedly dodgy process through which Obamacare was passed.

Republicans have recently tried to hide a lot of things from the American people: their ACA repeal bill, President Trump’s tax returns, ties to Russia and the dysfunction consuming their Party – just to name a few.

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Ryan on health care bill: We are on track and on schedule of where we intend to be.

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Raul Labrador: "The problem with this bill is that everything is wrong with it."…

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Ryan: "This is legislating. This is going through the regular order process."

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