he was a good and decent public servant. no one ever had to tell him to be civil and respectful with members of the other party. both parties want a restoration of shriver style civility in washington in the aftermath of the tucson massacre. but decency is not an easy post to hold if you don t really mean it it. republicans have been waiting for it. today they began their attempt to repeal health care reform. the type of heated political rhetoric is now under scrutiny. after a week of promising a civil tone, republicans in the house pick up where they left off. it s a little chilly, isn t it? i rise today in support of the repeal of the job killing obamacare legislation. this is largely symbolic. the republican attack on health care reform sounds very familiar.
he was a democratic vice presidential candidate on the 1972 ticket with george mcgovern who will join us later. he was a good and decent public serve ants. no one ever had to tell him to be civil and respectful with members of the other party. both parties want a restoration of shriver style civility in washington in the aftermath of the tucson massacre. but decency is not an easy post to hold if you don t really mean it it. republicans have been waiting for it. today they began their attempt to repeal health care reform. the type of heated political rhetoric is now under scrutiny. after a week of promising a civil tone, republicans in the house pick up where they left off. it s a little chilly, isn t it? i rise today in support of the repeal of the job killing obamacare legislation. this is largely symbolic.
the republican attack on health care reform sounds very familiar. obama cacare was a huge mist. the new minority leader s reaction. do you feel think the members of congress voting to repeal health reform, should be called on to reject their own government-provided health insurance? yes. the republican support for repeal is dropping. this is exactly what we said we would do. not exactly what they said they would do. repeal and replace. today we heard the repeal. repeal. repeal. but where was the replace? this bill isn t repeal and replace. it s prepeal and forget. they talk about how they have a magic potion. name one area of health care, one where there have been job losses? i would suspect that we would here crickets chirping.
democrat cancer. these are people problems. we have legitimate disagreements about how to solve the problems. if we have time on the show today, i d like to go into those in tennessee and why i d like to see us repeal this and have a better bill. it s not repeal and that s the only thing. we have a lot of great ideas about replacement. let me give you one of my frustrations. about 12 of us in our doctors caucus, and not any of us were consulted on this bill that was passed. that was frustrating to me to bring 30 years of experience in health care and never be asked. we had 80 amendments. one amendments is a repeal of ipab, it wasn t voted on. that was very frustrating for me. congressman kucinich they talk about the polling, a majority, slightly over 50% were opposed to the democratic bill,
the deficit. reporter: at bows sides promised there was no vitriol but democrats threw a few sharp elbows. this bill isn t repeal and replace. it s repeal and forget. by ensuring that americans have vital coverage rather than cruelly denying it to them, we can live up to the dreams of liberty and justice for all. reporter: tomorrow there will be hours more debate on the repeal. there s going to be a vote in the afternoon. it s expected to pass the house handily but it s not expected to even see the light of day in the senate, but, wolf, house republicans say they had to do this. this was a campaign promise that they will try to repeal health care reform and they are making good on it. and they are moving forward. we ll speak to nancy pelosi about that and more in the next hour. thanks very much, brianna, for that. we re also monitoring a major earthquake that has just rocked pakistan. we ll have the latest. plus, president obama takes a major step towards repairing that str