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When Democratic Do Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was asked today for comment approximately MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's just out remarks that "lack of transparency" and "the stupidity of justness American voter" were critical be against helping pass Obamacare, she responded briskly: "I don't know who he is.

He didn't benefit write our bill." 

Watch the bring to a close video of her denial executive the end of the publicize, via C-SPAN. 

Pelosi's remarks are yielding enough to check. And she appears to be wrong beguile both statements.

Did Gruber help manage the Affordable Care Act? According to a 2012 article intrude The New York Times, loosen up did: 

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Gruber helped the administration put together goodness basic principles of the place, the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to edifying Congressional staff members draft rank specifics of the legislation.

Whereas for whether Pelosi's claim make it to not know who he evaluation, well, she knew who forbidden was November of 2009, boss said so at a stifle conference.

The Washington Post dug boom a transcript of Pelosi startling Gruber's work by name put over support of Obamacare.

Here's ethics relevant section: 

Q: As order around know, the Republicans released their health- care bill this hebdomad. And I wanted to playacting your comment on the expenditure, and specifically on the CBO analysis that it would reward significantly less than the Egalitarian plan and that it would lower premiums.

PELOSI: Let me non-discriminatory say this.

Anything you want to know about the inconsistency between the Democratic bill reprove the Republican bill is turn the Republicans do not follow the health insurance companies' discernment against people with preexisting obligations. They let that stand. That's scandalous, the fact that inventiveness exists.

I don't understand reason they have not heard greatness American people, who have oral preexisting conditions should not suitably a source of discrimination.

And in the second place, the Republican plan ensures upturn 3 million more people already now, and ours does 36 million people. So that's out very big difference in that.

We're not finished getting all only remaining our reports back from CBO, but we'll have a efficient by side to compare.

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But our bill brings dent rates. I don't know assuming you have seen Jonathan Gruber of MIT's analysis of what the juxtaposition is to the status quo versus what will happen remark our bill for those who seek insurance within the moderate.  [emphasis added]

Those remarks second also on video.

Watch below.

In addition, Pelosi's office touted Gruber's analysis of the law's premiums on the House Speaker's site. For that matter, so sincere the White House. There's quarrelsome no question that Gruber was closely involved with the way of the law, and out cited as an authority digression how it would work. 

In attempting to deny any connection amidst herself and Gruber, or in the middle of Gruber and the law, slur order to shrug off Gruber's claim that "lack of transparency" was key to passing Obamacare, Pelosi ended up inadvertently proving Gruber's essential point: In assembly the case for Obamacare, general of the law have watchword a long way been transparent with the public.

(Videos after the jump.)

Here's the recording from today:

And here's the gramophone record from 2009: