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Ryan asked Congressman Stupak what he was thinking as he reflected on the events of that day. How could this occur? September 11, was a day that changed America and the tragedies of that day will not be forgotten.

Skip to content. TV6 Morning News. Storm Reports. What's Up With The Weather? Sports Video. Friday Night Fever. Stupake worked as patrolman for the Escanaba, Michigan police department from to and as a trooper for the state of Michigan from to He was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from to and elected to the U. House in What's on my ballot? Elections in How to vote How to run for office Ballot measures. Who represents me? President U. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers.

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Injured in the line of duty, he was medically retired from the state police in He has also served Michigan residents as an attorney and as a member of the Michigan State Legislature.

Here's a separate question from whether it's a good law: Was it good for Democrats, politically, that health care passed? I had no trouble selling health care in my district. Some members ran from it after it passed, because people were not happy with it. I still find today, yet, a lot of confusion about the law. In fact, my wife and I hosted Menominee County Democrats at our house, and their speaker was Senator Carl Levin, and there were quite a few people there, and these were Democrats mostly, and even they were confused.

Well, he won't have to worry about it. He's going to be percent subsidized. When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it. People do not realize that because most members don't articulate that.

I actually went around my district from before the [first] vote in the House and all the way through up until the final vote in March, and people would come back after going through a town-hall meeting, after seeing the slide presentation I did, they'd say, 'Well, that makes a lot of sense. You still get people who say, 'Well, I don't want to pay for it. You're going to get a little 2. So when you put it like that, they say, 'Yeah, okay, I understand that, but I don't like it.

If I would have run, I just wish Democrats would have stayed with it, and when you look back, we passed this March 21, and what's the next thing that happened that sucked the headlines? No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened.

It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate. It's like--I feel bad for President Obama right now. The economy is getting better, and everyone's saying that, and the market's doing well, and then what happened? I spoke last night to the Republican club here ate Harvard, and we talked about health care. And there were some challenging questions, but when we got all done, even the kids there said, 'Man, you know your health care stuff. There's parts of it they don't like.

I agree, there's parts of it I don't like. Looking back at the headlines the day after President Obama signed the law, some of them were about you receiving a death threat. The case is still pending. The guy has now petitioned the court, and motions were granted to allow him to get psychiatric evaluation.

Have you encountered anything like that since, or any anger? Oh yeah. I still get accosted. It's been amazing to me how many people come up and say, 'I should know you. And someone will come out and just bitch me out. Others will come up and shake my hand and say 'congratulations' or something, 'we needed it. It's not unusual that when I go through an airport--and I go back and forth every week--that I will get at least one person cussing me out. It was a good bill. Proud to have voted for it.

And then that just gets their anger going, but I'm not going to get in an argument with somebody in an airport--that's ridiculous. I just, you know, say 'have a good say,' move on. You were a central player in the abortion fight. You supported the Hyde language throughout, and then at the last minute it passed on the agreement that President Obama would issue an executive order clarifying the language that was in the bill.

Do you still feel that executive order was enough to live up to your expectations on abortion policy?