[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H2802-H2803]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Madam Speaker, I read with dismay this morning that 
the Justice Department and the current administration has decided to 
continue to treat the Affordable Care Act as an unconstitutional wrong 
committed by the House and the Senate and signed into law by the last 
administration. I can't believe that they are taking this position.
  This has been a long national struggle that we have gone through. We 
have had this debate, we have had this discussion, and we have had this 
fight. And to say now that it continues to be unconstitutional, the way 
that they have said all along, we don't need to do this again. We have 
10 to 20 million

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Americans with preexisting conditions that depend on the workings of 
the Affordable Care Act to keep covered so that they don't have to file 
for bankruptcy when they get sick, so that they can move from job to 
job without worrying about their healthcare coverage. Let's not do this 
again.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues here in the House to reject the 
idea that the ACA is unconstitutional.

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