House Proceeding 10-14-09 on Oct 14th, 2009 :: 2:08:25 to 2:09:25
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Keith Ellison: longevity of grandma and your uncles and aunts based upon the fact that they are going to be healthier longer, it's very, very important. i yield back. mr. ellison: i do -- i accept the gentlelady's yielding because it's important that when we talk about health care, we talk about, mr. speaker, we talk about statistics and we drop stats and we're talking about statist i thinks and

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Speech By: Keith Ellison

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Keith Ellison: numbers and all of this stuff we talk about. but we can never forget we're talking about human beings' lives. we're talking about human beings having more time with each other. we're talking about, as we said, your grandmother being there and yet because of health disparities, inequality in the

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Keith Ellison: area of health, she's not being there. and how enriched a human being is by having that generational exchange. these are just little examples of what we're talking about. that's why democrats are pushing forward on health care. that's why the black caucus is pushing forward on health care. that's why we need all americans who care about a