[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14577-14578]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       OBAMACARE: A BUDGET ISSUE

  (Mr. WOODALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I serve on the Budget Committee. Yesterday, 
we had a hearing with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. 
That's the nonpartisan group that does the scoring and that talks about 
what the impact of the decisions we make here will have on Americans, 
on taxpayers, on future generations.
  We all know that the largest costs we have in the Federal budget are 
driven by health care. That's why we are focused so much on bringing 
health care costs down. In the midst of that, we are developing an 
entirely new Federal health care benefit in this country, and the 
Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Speaker, said this: that of all the 
Federal health care costs that will be paid over the next 10 years, 
more than half will be brand new costs from ObamaCare.

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  This is already the biggest expense we have, and we are going to 
double it. That's why this is a budget issue. That's why we are talking 
about it in the time of funding the government and funding the national 
debt.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill will bankrupt us. We must take care of 
families in our districts. We must address preexisting conditions. We 
must cover children--but we must do it in a way that does not bankrupt 
America.

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