[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3956]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            JUST SAY ``NO''

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, we've just had a vote on H.R. 5, something 
very important. It's one of the horrible parts of the ObamaCare bill 
that we would have a board that would dictate to people what they could 
or could not have in the way of treatment or care.
  The Federal Government has no business getting between people and 
their doctor. They have no business taking over health care, because if 
the Federal Government has the right to take over people's health care, 
then they'll have the duty to tell people how to live, what they can 
eat, what they must do.
  But I had to vote ``no'' on this bill for this reason: in order to 
pay for this bill, under our rules, they added a provision that has the 
Congress dictating to every State in the country what their State med-
mal tort laws have to be.
  In Texas, we did tort reform, and we have doctors coming back. Some 
say, well, Louie, other States don't have it. That's fine. It's their 
right. Their doctors can come to Texas.
  But when Congress wants to usurp State law, I have to say, ``No.''

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