[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 106 (Thursday, June 17, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S4599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, ever since Democrats passed the 
Affordable Care Act, expanding health coverage and access to tens of 
millions of Americans, we have had to fight tooth and nail to preserve 
the law from partisan Republican attacks.
  For more than a decade, the assault on our healthcare law was 
relentless from Republicans in Congress, from the executive branch 
itself and from Republican attorneys general in the courts. In a 
landmark vote, we in the Senate prevented the Republicans from 
repealing the ACA in 2017.
  Each time, in each arena, the Affordable Care Act has prevailed, and 
once again today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-to-2 ruling, upheld 
the Affordable Care Act in the face of another legal challenge. So let 
me say definitively: The Affordable Care Act has won. The Supreme Court 
has just ruled. The ACA is here to stay.
  And now we are going to try to make it bigger and better--establish 
once and for all affordable healthcare as a basic right of every 
American citizen.
  What a day.

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