[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 91 (Thursday, May 25, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S3164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                         Healthcare Legislation

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, first, let me thank my good friend from 
Illinois for, as usual, his articulate, compassionate, and outstanding 
work and for the great job he and others did yesterday when they 
invited the people here. I reiterate just what the Senator from 
Illinois stated; that is, once they take repeal off the table--they are 
having real trouble with repeal--we want to sit down and make our 
healthcare system better. It is not perfect. No one thought it was.
  It is better than it was. Many more people are covered. Preexisting 
conditions, college kids--kids get out of college, and they get 
healthcare. All of that is better. We don't want to get rid of 
everything, but we want to improve it. We are working. Forty-eight 
Senators, as my colleague from Illinois knows--every Democrat signed a 
letter to Leader McConnell saying we want to work with you to improve 
this system, not to sabotage the existing system, not to repeal the 
good things we have but to improve it.
  And we have gotten no answer in that regard.