House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn experienced the most significant legislative triumph of his congressional career Sunday evening as a historic health care bill extending insurance to 32 million Americans was passed.
Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, ended a week that he said was the most exhausting of his 17-plus years in Congress by finally corralling the minimum 216 votes needed for the House to pass the landmark legislation.
“We have debated this issue for several generations,” Clyburn said on the House floor at 9:30 p.m. “The time has come to act. This is the Civil Rights Act of the 21st Century.”
Did they pass around vodka and caviar to celebrate?
Actually, this is the [b]End of[/b] Civil Rights Act of the 21st Century.
So…this is what it’s to be chattel.