[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 17 (Monday, February 2, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          REPEAL OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT FOR THE 56TH TIME

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is week five for the new Congress--and it 
happens to be Groundhog Day--and my Republican colleagues, 
unfortunately, I think, are still stuck in the shadow of their extreme 
agenda.
  Instead of taking up a jobs bill or an infrastructure bill or a 
minimum wage bill to give working families bigger paychecks, they have 
again decided this week, for the 56th time, to take up repeal of the 
Affordable Care Act.
  Never mind that repealing the ACA in this House would take away 
insurance for millions of individuals or raise insurance premiums on 
working families or allow insurance companies to once again 
discriminate against those who have preexisting medical conditions.
  This extreme bill we know will never see the light of day or become 
law, however. Similar bills were dead on arrival the first time that 
the Speaker brought it up, and it is not going anywhere this time.
  This vote, pandering to the most extreme voices at the expense of a 
jobs bill or the first vote on a national manufacturing plan or the 
first vote to repair our crumbling roads and bridges, takes away the 
time to deal with those important issues and continues this House on 
the road to another repeal of the ACA.

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