January 19, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) left her office around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, saying a state that already has health care should not determine whether the rest of the country receives the same benefit.
"Massachusetts has health care and so the rest of the country would like to have that too," Pelosi said. "So we don't (think) a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should."
She held firm to her pledge earlier in the day that Democrats would move forward with the bill.
"We will get the job done," Pelosi said. "We will get the job done. I am confident of that. I have always been confident of that."