U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, was greeted on the floor of the U.S. House with catcalls of “trial lawyer” shortly before passage of health care reform legislation Saturday night.

Braley, a Waterloo attorney, was chosen to respond to a Republican effort to block a vote on the bill. The parliamentary move, called a motion to recommit, would have forced the bill to be redrafted. Republicans were expressing concern about the cost of medical malpractice insurance and Braley was trying to make the point that health care reform should be about “standing up for patient safety.”

That’s when Republicans began heckling him.

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