[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TIME TO DEFUND OBAMACARE NOW

  (Mr. MESSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, good jobs are hard to find these days. The 
gap between America's highest- and lowest-income families is wider than 
ever. American workers are on unemployment longer than any time since 
World War II. A record 46 million Americans live in poverty.
  What's the President's answer to these problems? He proposes driving 
forward on his prize achievement, ObamaCare, even though it is already 
erasing jobs and reducing the work hours of taxpaying Americans.
  I have cosponsored a resolution to keep the government open and 
defund ObamaCare. House Republicans support these goals. We're going to 
defund ObamaCare and we're going to keep the government open at 
sensible spending levels.
  Americans shouldn't have to suffer through this failed experiment any 
longer or have government operations held hostage by those unwilling to 
acknowledge that ObamaCare is not working. Let's hope the President and 
his Senate allies agree.

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