and the motion to concur is adopted. [ applause ] it took 14 months after we got here to get it done. you know, like my god, we did it. i remember it so vividly. i said how does this compare to how you felt on election night. he said there was no comparison. it was all about getting to this moment. we are in a world where we had the aca and 20 million and people are not getting excluded because they have a preist existing condition because it s against the law. the simplest exclusion. we will just repeal it. that hurt a lot of people.
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
and they re changing it and changing permanent? of course. that s a develop. sir. key question it s not left up to the states. no, but the states are also going to have a lot to do with it. we ultimately want to get it back down to the states. the state is going to be in a much better position to take care, because smaller. so i m not hearing you say there s a guarantee of preist examining conditions? we have a clause that guarantees it. reporter: confusion there and quite frankly, john, a lot of this right now on capitol hill as it has been for the last two or three weeks is just about as clear as mud, and the president s statements there didn t help much. back to you. no, indeed not. the bill does not guarantee the prices for those with preexisting conditions which is key for the people who have to teal with that. joe johns thanks so much. there is a deal an actual deal, an actual moment of bipartisanship in america right here. it s so rare it s almost difficult