[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11056-11057]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         DYSFUNCTIONAL POLITICS

  (Mr. CARNAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CARNAHAN. Madam Speaker, yesterday, a Republican Representative 
from my State actually told the truth about the 31st attempt to repeal 
the new health care law. He told a St. Louis newspaper that today's 
vote is just because ``we want to get people on the record.'' We've 
done that 30 times already.
  The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It was passed by the 
Congress, signed by the President, and found constitutional by the U.S. 
Supreme Court.
  This Republican health care repeal bill isn't about people. It's 
about more divisive, dysfunctional politics. They know the repeal bill 
is pointless, and there is no way we're going backwards to the broken 
health care system of the past. Let's use the time to pass a jobs bill. 
Let's pass the middle class tax cut extension that we all agree with. 
Let's pass my bill that will protect veterans returning from war zones 
from the impacts of psychological damage.
  Today, our troops are killing themselves at a rate of nearly one a 
day.

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They urgently need our help. Let's do something for them. Let's do 
something that actually matters to the American people. Let's put 
ourselves on record for the people, for jobs, rather than wasting time 
casting the same vote 30 times.

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