Representative Jackson’s Remarks Re: Landmark Health Care Overhaul Legislation

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2009.  Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. voted today in strong support of legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system — the Affordable Health Care for America Act. He called passage of the bill “a monumental, historic step forward.”

 

“For nearly 100 years, politicians of all stripes and in both parties have attempted to bring comprehensive reform to our nation’s health care system. Now, a century later, we — at long…