[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ``LET'S PLAY TWO!''

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Well, Mr. Speaker, it's late back here, but I'm from the 
west coast, so ``let's play two.''
  I'm really disappointed with the rhetoric that's been flying out of 
here in recent days. You hear all Republicans this, or Tea Party that, 
or you're in the hold of the Tea Party.
  You know, we're in the hold of the American people here because we 
see this Obama health care plan is not affordable; it's not going to 
work. We're just trying to go back and take another bite and see if we 
can revise, delay, or do something different than foist these costs and 
an unworkable program that's going to ruin people's health care. Let's 
go back to the table.
  Instead, we get ``no'' from the President, we get ``no'' from the 
Senate, we get a lot of ``no'' from the other side of the aisle.
  Aren't we supposed to have a negotiation? Aren't we supposed to have 
a discussion here? The American people demand that. They're seeing that 
this program is not going to work. It's going to cost them; it's going 
to cost their jobs; it's going to make their health care less 
accessible. And yet all we get are ``no.''
  So if we want to look at who's causing this government shutdown, 
listen to the people yelling the most about it over on the other side 
of the aisle--yes, yelling.
  So we're here. We're ready to play two here tonight if we need to.

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