[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13291]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                HEALTH CARE REFORM COMES CLEAN ON TAXES

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, there is an interesting new development on 
the ObamaCare front.
  Remember the penalties on families that do not purchase health 
insurance, the ones that will top $2,000 for many families? Remember 
what President Obama said about this individual mandate penalty? He 
said it was ``absolutely not a tax increase.''
  Well, I guess times have changed.
  Now the Obama administration's Justice Department is defending this 
penalty in court as part of the government's ``power to lay and collect 
taxes.''
  At least the truth about this $4 billion a year tax is now out. Too 
bad Washington Democrats didn't come clean until months after ObamaCare 
became law.
  Madam Speaker, the American people deserve better.

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