[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     DAMAGING THE NATION'S ECONOMY

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I remember being in this House not that 
long ago--August 2011--when we were told that we've got to threaten the 
breaking of the debt ceiling of the United States because of debt and 
deficit. The deficit has come down. So here we are again, threatening 
to harm the economic fortunes of Americans with a shutdown and even the 
debt ceiling, but we are not talking debt and deficit anymore--now we 
are talking ObamaCare.
  My advice to my Republican colleagues is to try to overturn the 
Affordable Care Act at the ballot box. Oh, that didn't work. Here is 
another piece of advice: go to court and try to have it found 
unconstitutional. Oh, boy, that didn't work out either. Okay. Try to go 
through the regular legislative process. Well, 43 times later, that 
didn't work. So now we are going to literally damage the economy of 
this Nation?
  The fact is that this is wrong. It is going to hurt veterans, 
seniors. It is going to hurt children, and it is going to hurt our 
parks. It is going to hurt our whole country. So I pray that my 
colleagues stop this.

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