[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               STOPPING OBAMACARE AND PREVENTING SHUTDOWN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I are well aware of how 
important the next few days are for this country and for the work to be 
done in this House. We in the House have done our job however. We have 
acted to control reckless spending, dismantle the President's 
unworkable health care law, and keep our government open. Now our 
House-passed bill is in the hands of the United States Senate, and we 
hope they will listen to the will of the people as we in the House have 
done.
  The ObamaCare health care takeover is a bad law, it's harmful, and it 
must be stopped. The American people, having had a chance themselves to 
read it a little bit--unlike what happened in this House just a few 
short years ago--they do not want it.
  We are already beginning to see how it's making insurance premiums go 
up all over the country--on the average, 99 percent for men, 62 percent 
for women, and the report just came out yesterday. It's unworkable. 
It's unaffordable.
  We need to get rid of this law, and we need to keep our government 
open, as Republicans have work to do. It's time for the Senate to act 
and protect the needs of the American people.

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