[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 8, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FIGHTING MANDATE

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I think that there are millions of 
Americans today, many American Catholics, who listened intently to the 
debate that took place on the ObamaCare bill. They weren't really sure 
about it, but they kept hanging on to a couple of things: If you like 
what you have, you can keep it, is what the President said. They have 
found out that's not the way it turned out.
  Well, when it came to all of the guidelines that were coming from 
HHS, don't worry about these. They'll never be mandates. They're just 
going to be guidelines. They're there for information and instruction.
  Well, that didn't come about either, because what has happened, the 
Catholic organizations and schools and hospitals are being mandated by 
the Federal Government to violate their religious beliefs and to meet 
the Federal mandate of providing contraceptives, abortion services, and 
sterilization services, all in the name of a health care policy.
  This is something that needs to be reversed. I stand with the 
millions of Americans who are fighting this mandate.

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