Elizabeth Warren compares compromise on government shutdown to negotiating with hostage takers
A Democratic senator said she hopes her colleagues won’t break ranks and delay the new health care reform law to avoid a government shutdown.
“We’ve had a referendum on that, so we can keep debating it from the floor of the Senate, but you don’t get to hold the entire economy, the entire country, hostage because you don’t like the outcome of the election,” Elizabeth Warren (MA) said Friday at a conference at the University of Chicago.
“We had an election in 2012, and a big part of what a lot of people talked about, including me (and) including the president of the United States, was health care, and the people who said no to the Affordable Care Act – they lost, (and) they are not in the majority,” Warren said.
She had originally been scheduled to speak in person at a kickoff event at the Institute of Politics, but Warren stayed behind in Washington, D.C., and spoke via satellite so she could vote on a proposal to temporarily fund the government.
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