they are not representing anyone but the billionaires that want to shred public programs. the next figure is senator bernie sanders of vermont. let's give him a round of applause. sanders: thank you all for being here. we'd be back the republicans when they want to throw 23 million people off of health insurance. we beat them when they want to throw 22 million people that health insurance, we beat them when they want to throw 16 million people off of health insurance and we can well are going to beat them today.

it goes without saying, in the year 2017, we should be talking about health care as a right for all people. on a personal level, on a moral level, i have a very difficult time understanding. >> people are struggling with our disease, parkinson's disease, what happens to you if you have a life-threatening illness. what happens to you?

thousands of people a year will die. if that legislation becomes law. understandingtime how any member of the senate that vote for legislation would take insurance as a port away from disabled children. if you are a child with autism -- if you're a kid with their difficult diseases, what happens to you and your family if medicaid is stripped away from you? -- this isd sisters a profound moral issue. the overwhelming majority of the

american people -- democrats, independents and republicans understand that the united we mustn'tmerica take away the life insurance of millions of people. that is what the american people understand. keep up the fight, we are going to win this. health care is a right, trumpcare is wrong. health care is a right, trumpcare is wrong.

health care is a right, trumpcare is wrong. thank you senator sanders. texas, theyte of defunding planned parenthood. i had to see personally what that looked like. i have had friends who looked at me in the eye and were wondering what they would do with their health care. getting access to birth control is a vile -- vital part of our health care. i have seen politicians script that away from thousands of women in my state. politiciansnist and here at our capitals are trying to make a replica of texas across the united states. from texas to way d.c. to stop that from happening. are you here to stop that from happening? >> yes.

>> texas has one of the highest mortality rates in the country. we don't want to see that being spread across the country. woman, someone like me has a higher percentage of dying from birth. i am here to protect those women. >> we are gathered here again, i feel like this is a 1980's horror movie. it is like nightmare on capitol hill part five. we know that anyone with a consciousness of our history, every interbrand we gain, every step we take that we fought for

for,orked for an sacrifice we know at this critical moment, here we are again, the history of our country constantly works to expand opportunities, to expand our conception of jobs and freedom and sacrifice and struggle. after working 50 plus years ago to expand access to health care with medicare and medicaid have to just a decade or so ago with the affordable care act -- 20 million more people got expanded and theo health care equality that comes with having that security. here we are again, we have people trying to take our progress and drive us back. we had stand up and say no.

-- i tellt go back you this, you can say it again, we will not go back. we will not go back. we will not go back. i want to tell you this right now, there are a lot of people out here that do not understand the urgency and the crisis that we are in. day, thed of the biggest enemy we face in these coming days and hours is not a cruel bill that has been proposed, it will be silence and the indifference of all of us. we had to get people woke to the crisis we have right now. his an urgent moral moment in our country. we have witnessed how this can work, just yesterday in a bipartisan way, we can do a

national defense bill with billions in the land of dollars. you saw people come together to protect the national defense. fromisn't just dress abroad and north korea. we saw her again sweep into our country and we saw first responders not asking if you are a republican or a democrat, we responded in a unified fashion for the national defense. say right now, cancer does not care if you are rich or poor. diabetes does not care if you are rich or poor. autism is a challenge that affects families of all backgrounds. when it comes to the conception of our national defense, it is not only important that we have the world's largest military, we

in america should have the world's best health care. in a country this wealthy, that can afford nuclear weapons and aircraft carriers, we should be able to stand up and say that every american has a right to a portable quality health care. in a nation that has the best military -- spending more money than the next nine countries combined, we should be able to say in the united states of america that we can make sure that every child born in our nation is born with quality health care. we should have a nation where senior citizens don't fear that they won't be able to afford a nursing home. we should have a nation where if someone has a conditional or an illness that their only access

to a doctor is not an emergency room, we should note that someone who has to look for their country that when their family members and cousins and neighbors are here, we should be standing for them as well. in this more moment in our nation we have to remember that the dissemination of this moment will be decided by the people. the power of the people is greater than the people in power. it is time we live up to our creed and become a nation that therms life and liberty and pursuit of happiness for everyone in our nation and you cannot have life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness if you do not have health care. it is time that we live up to the oath that we all say we put our hands on our hearts that

this should be a nation of liberty and justice for all. we cannot have justice in a country where health care is accessible only to the wealthy few. cap to have liberty in this country, you can't have liberty changeica it you can that the because you cannot afford busy medication and coverage. you can't have liberty when you are shackled to uncertainty of not knowing if your child is sick and your family would be thrown into bankruptcy because they can't afford health care. we must become the truth that so many people in other nations now enjoy. the truth that says that we are strong enough, wealthy enough, normal enough to have a system of health care that serves everyone in our people. today we are in a crossroads.

should we allow a republican bill that tries to take us back? i say we don't go back. we must go forward and we must fight every day until we have justice in this country for all. quite the senate finance committee will hold a hearing monday on the latest republican health care plan, the cast to grant proposal we heard about in the rally. we will have that lot, monday afternoon. on the plane, senate republican leaders were joined by senators graham and cassidy after the republicans weekly party lunches. quest good afternoon everyone, i think you to know that we have spent much time talking about graham