Sen. Schumer Issues Statement on Affordable Care Act

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following floor statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on June 17, 2021:

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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