[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 161 (Wednesday, November 13, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7008]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         FREEDOM TO SPEAK YOUR MIND WITHOUT FEAR OF RETRIBUTION

  (Mr. MULVANEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Speaker, I got a letter from someone in my 
district. It says:

       You have probably heard about health care reform and 
     wondered what it means to you. This letter is to let you know 
     that your MyChoice health insurance plan from BlueChoice 
     HealthPlan is non-grandfathered. This means you purchased it 
     or made significant changes to it after March 23, 2010--the 
     day the Affordable Care Act became law. As a result, the law 
     requires that your insurance plan expire.

  This is not the saddest part of this letter, the fact that this woman 
was made a promise that no one is keeping to her. The saddest part of 
this letter is she asked me not to use her name here today.
  Someone does need to be held accountable for making promises to 
citizens that are not kept. But beyond that, someone needs to be held 
accountable for allowing an environment to grow up where citizens of 
this country are afraid to have their name spoken on the floor of this 
House for fear of retribution from their government.
  We will deal with health care. We will do the very best that we can. 
But beyond that, we need to figure out a way to create an environment 
where people are free to speak their minds on issues such as this.

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