[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H299]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               HEALTHCARE

  (Ms. JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, healthcare is important, and no 
one knows that better than our country's nurses. As the first 
registered nurse elected to Congress, I know how the Affordable Care 
Act has improved our country's healthcare, especially for the 133 
million Americans living with preexisting conditions, including 11.5 
million who live in my home State of Texas, the most uninsured State in 
the Nation.
  Today, we are bringing a resolution to the floor which will empower 
the House of Representatives, the people's House, to intervene in a 
lawsuit that Republicans have brought solely to throw the American 
healthcare system into chaos. I urge my colleagues to support the 
Allred resolution and vote to protect the healthcare of millions of our 
fellow Americans.

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