WASHINGTON: Former US president Barack Obama urged lawmakers to follow their conscience and protect vulnerable Americans, as a Republican-backed bill that tore up his namesake health care reform law heads to the Senate. “I hope that current members of Congress recall that it actually doesn’t take a lot of courage to aid those who are already powerful, already comfortable, already influential. But it does require some courage to champion the vulnerable and the sick and the infirm,” he said. At such moments, we need courage to stand up to hate, not just in others but in ourselves,” he said. Also in attendance was Robert Kraft, the owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots, who is a friend of Trump.

Source: Manila Times May 08, 2017 08:37 UTC