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(applause)
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The President: Dear
President Obama, I do not
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yet qualify for Medicare,
and corporate is about to
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run out.
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I am desperate and do
not know what to do.
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Do it for them.
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Do it for people who are
really scared right now,
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through no fault
of their own.
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Who have played by the
rules, who have done all
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the right things.
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(applause)
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Let's get this done.
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Somebody knows where
Alonya Sanchez is?
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(laughter)
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(talking simultaneously)
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(applause)
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(applause)
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The President: The - so
everybody know about -
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Male Speaker: Right yeah,
but it going to be - it's
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not going to be for
another forty to
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fifty minutes.
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The President: Okay forty
minutes, all right, so Katie?
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Female Speaker:
Yeah, we are good.
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The President: You are
going to let me know?
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Female Speaker: Yeah so
it will be about forty
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minutes, then you will
have fifteen minutes of
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calls, then the talks.
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Male Speaker: What do you
think they're going to do -
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The President: You guys
could have had some popcorn.
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(laughter)
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The President: I want to
thank my outstanding Vice
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President, Joe Biden.
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And my wonderful secretary
of Health and Human
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Services Kathleen Sebelius
for her fantastic work
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on this issue.
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I want to thank the many
staffers in congress, and
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my own incredible staff
in the White House.
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Who have worked tirelessly
over the past year to give
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Americans of all walk
of life, towards reform
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package finally worthy of
the people we were sent
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here to serve.
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All right, the
party's upstairs.
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Whenever you got people
running up, and someone
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else can come with me now.
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(talking simultaneously)
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Multiple Speakers:
(cheering)
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The President: Nancy
Ann, Nancy Ann.
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Multiple Speakers:
(cheering)
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The President: That
does not work as well.
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(laughter)
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I am not going to ruin
a good party with long speech.
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So many of you guys have
worked so hard during the
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course of this year
under incredibly
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adverse circumstances.
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Your families have,
you know, shared the
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sacrifices with you.
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You are all
younger than me.
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(laughter)
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So you can work on three
hours sleep, but I cannot.
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So I am going to start
retiring you guys can stay
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as long as you want.
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All right, thank you guys.
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(applause)
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The Vice President: Hey
Al, how are you doing buddy?
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Male Speaker: I am doing
fine Mr. Vice President.
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How are you?
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The Vice President:
Good to see you.
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I'm well.
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How are you?
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Good to see you.
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So it really is 220 pages.
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Male Speaker:
Yeah, it's --
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The Vice President:
599 pages.
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I'm just joking.
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Male Speaker: Well it's --
in this format it
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is 906 pages.
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The Vice President: All
right, I like big bills.
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You what I mean,
I am a Democrat.
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Male Speaker: Here you go.
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The Vice President:
All right.
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Male Speaker: That's it.
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Female Speaker: Woohoo.
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The Vice President: Tell
you what, I never thought
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being president's second I
would get to sign a bill.
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(laughter)
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Male Speaker: Yes you do.
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There are perks.
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The Vice President: My
Lord Al this thing is -
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Male Speaker: Want
to sign them all?
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The Vice President:
Yeah, no.
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Male Speaker: Greetings.
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Female Speaker: Holy cow.
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Male Speaker: Yes.
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(laughter)
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Female Speaker: That's
the biggest one yet.
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Male Speaker: Yeah it's -
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Female Speaker:
Here we go.
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Male Speaker:
-- pretty large.
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Male Speaker: There it is.
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Female Speaker:
Here it is.
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The President:
What's going on?
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Let's do this.
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(talking simultaneously)
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I've got to sign it 22 times. That's a lot of pens man.
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(talking simultaneously)
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Male Speaker: Ladies and
Gentleman please take your
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seats the program
is about to begin.
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The President: The reason
we made history today was
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because of you guys.
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And, you know, I -- this
place is kind of a bubble,
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and one of the ways I
remind myself of why I
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ran, and why this is
important is to be able to
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read the letters, or
emails, or meet people at
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town halls who tell me
stories all the time about
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what they are
going through.
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And sometimes the stories
are heartbreaking, you
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know, because as powerful
as it seems the President
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is, you know, you can't
solve these things
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overnight sometimes.
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So, you know, you will get
a letter from somebody who
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just lost their job, or is
about to lose their house
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and you want nothing more
than to be able to help them.
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And you can't do it as
fast as you want, or as
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immediately as you would
like, but if you stay with
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it every once in a while
you actually get something
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that helps some folks, and
it might not even help
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them tomorrow, but it will
help them a year from now
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or five years from now.
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And, you know that's --
Male Speaker: It
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will help our kids --
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The President:
Yeah, it will help -
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Male Speaker: And
our grandkids.
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The President: -- our
kids and our grandkids.
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And that's really what
this is all about, so this
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really was your day.
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You know, I know it may
sound corny, but I
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really believe it.
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That if it were not for
you just telling your
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stories, and letting
yourselves be heard that
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we would not have been
able to overcome so
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much of the resistance
to get it done.
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So, you should pat
yourselves on the back.
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All right.
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Okay, I am going to write
this note for you, myself.
