[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 28, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            AN UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT ON WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Madam Speaker, today, this House will consider H.R. 7, 
which is an unprecedented assault on women's health care.
  This law would mean that millions of American women who would like to 
purchase their health insurance with their own money cannot purchase 
comprehensive health insurance, insurance which is their legal right 
because this House of Representatives and, Madam Speaker, I would note, 
a House of Representatives, particularly on the majority side, that is 
dominated by men, tell them they cannot do so.
  What is even more cynical, however, is that those who are promoting 
this and have said this know that it will not become law. It is a 
messaging bill.
  It is intended to send a message to whom?
  And just what is that message?
  So while we are debating that, the House is not taking up 
unemployment insurance extension, which is not a messaging bill. It is 
heat in the home, it is keeping the lights on, it is paying the 
mortgage, it is putting food on the table for the children of the 
people in those homes.
  That is not a messaging bill. That is the work that we were sent here 
to do.

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