DeGette on health care reform: 'Just pass it'

Reforming health care, helping military veterans, and protecting abortion rights are on U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s laundry list of needs, she told Democratic National Convention delegates in a speech Thursday afternoon at Invesco Field in Denver.

DeGette quoted Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, delivered 45 years ago Thursday, during which he said “we…will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water. "

“My friends, during eight years of George W. Bush, we haven’t seen much justice rolling out of Washington,” DeGette said. “And we say today, we will not be satisfied with four more years of the same with John McCain.”

Talking about one of her primary issues, DeGette said it’s time “to stop paying lip service to health care reform and just pass it.”

She also called for lifting the Bush Administration-backed restrictions on stem cell research and protecting abortion rights.
DeGette said Barack Obama will be ”a president who will fight to right the wrongs, a president who challenges every American to be their brother’s keeper and their sister’s keeper.”