[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            OPPOSING H.R. 3

  (Mr. HOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLT. Madam Speaker, I also rise in strong opposition to H.R. 3.
  Our first priorities here in the House of Representatives must be 
helping foster job creation and supporting middle- class families. Yet, 
more than 4 months into this Congress, we have not considered one bill, 
not one bill that would achieve these goals.
  Instead, we have before us today H.R. 3, one of the centerpieces of 
the Republican agenda, and it would limit the health care choices of 
women.
  Now, even if all it did is what the name implies, to prohibit Federal 
subsidies for abortion, it would be redundant, unnecessary and 
misguided. But it's much worse than that. In truth, it's an 
unprecedented and extreme attempt to limit health insurance coverage 
for American women, to raise taxes on small businesses, to infringe on 
the legally protected right of American servicewomen, to make this 
legal, constitutionally protected medical procedure inaccessible to 
women.
  I oppose H.R. 3, and urge my colleagues to vote ``no.'' And I urge 
the majority to get to work helping Americans to get to work.

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