here s what we did a year ago. a year ago, house republicans said, we need to take a plan to repeal and replace obamacare to the country. we spent a year working on this plan, all house republicans participated in this, we had working groups were anybody who had an idea brought it to the table. we reached consensus on what that plan look like. we called it a better way we put it on the internet, we all ran for congress in 2016 on it that plan. a tucker: i remember. it was modeled on the tom price legislation, that s what this is. this is the legislative text of that plan that we ran in 2016 on what we would replace obamacare with. tom price is now the secretary of hhs is now the architect of it. 12 cosponsors is greatly as december. were going through typical growing pains from being an opposition party fighting barack obama, nancy pelosi, and harry reid to a governing party.
that had an idea brought it to the table and then reached consensus on what the plan looked like. we called it a better way. we put it on the internet. we all ran for congress in 2016 on that plan. i remember. it was modelled on the tom price legislation. twhast this is. paul ryan is saying you had your chance, you looked at this. this is the plan. you should not be bucking the plan now. your response? first of all i have a great respect for paul ryan and we had multiple conversations about this plan and a lot of the bills that came out was not some things that some of us expected they had to listen to everybody and put together the ideas they thought had the best chance to
represents staten island and parts of brooklyn here in new york. this is actually consider add very competitive congressional district. it was before grimm represented by a democrat. this is a seat that both parties will be aggressively targeting in any special election and congressman grimm will be sentenced in june. but for now, a late christmas present as congressman grimm will voluntarily give up his seat sparing the congress from having to make some embarrassing decisions at the start of the year. this news on the same night that another member of the house finds himself in hot water. steve ska lease gave a statement regarding kmiet supremacist. ska lease himself giving a
for anyone to suggest that i m involved with a group like that is insulting. when people called me and asked me to speak to groups, i went and spoke to groups. now, to add further context here, in 2002 steve skalise was an am bishls state representative. but as a state representative as opposed to a member of congress like he is today, he didn t necessarily have anyone closely vetting every invitation he received. this is from the washington post robert costa who has been reporting on this story today. other allies who requested anonimty added skalise was poorly staffed. however, it should also be noted that it did stir some real controversy at the time.
runoff for seat in congress. in that year 19 9d 9, another person kond e considered a contender with erer for that house seet was steve skalise in which they asked him about going up against david duke in a republican. also of note here. the year they e that they spoke, that year was 2002. and that was the same year that mississippi s trent lock who was days away from becoming the new majority leader of the u.s. senate delivered these remarks at the 100th birth day party for strom thurman.