[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14762-14763]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I heard the Speaker say that the House has 
done its work by delaying ObamaCare. I'd like to remind the Speaker and 
all my colleagues on the GOP side that the work that has to be done is 
to pass a budget to keep the government open.
  The issue of ObamaCare is over. It was resolved in the last 
Presidential election when the President was reelected and said that he 
was going to

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continue with it. Why do we continue to talk about ObamaCare? I assure 
my colleagues on the Republican side that people in my district are 
clamoring for ObamaCare. They want to sign up so that they can get 
health insurance and affordable health insurance.
  That's not what we should be litigating here today. The fact of the 
matter is that Republicans are saying, It's my way or the highway. 
They're saying that if you don't agree to delay ObamaCare, we're not 
going to pass a budget and we're going to shut the government down. 
That is not leadership. They're in charge. They're the majority here. 
They're supposed to do their business and not try to go to the 45th and 
46th vote on ObamaCare.
  I could sit here and say I'm not going to vote for a budget unless 
you agree to pass gun safety legislation. That's not the way this place 
is supposed to operate.

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