[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 2, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CONDEMN CRUSADE TO TAKE AWAY HEALTHCARE

  (Mr. ROUDA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROUDA. Madam Speaker, last week, the President put a five-alarm 
fire on American families by putting the government's weight behind a 
lawsuit designed to cripple many healthcare protections. The ordinary 
people whose lives will be upended by this decision have been offered a 
raw deal to blow up healthcare and fix it later, but even that is a 
false promise.
  There is no plan to help the 316,000 people with preexisting 
conditions in coastal Orange County or the millions of Americans across 
our country. There has been no plan for 10 years.
  We have to recognize that the inability to pay healthcare expenses is 
the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States and a 
leading cause of homelessness.
  I hope my Republican colleagues will have the chance to show the 
American people that Congress isn't completely without common sense and 
decency by voting for our resolution Tuesday condemning this 
ideological crusade to take away healthcare from millions of needy 
American families.

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