[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14864]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NO OBAMACARE SPECIAL EXEMPTIONS

  (Mr. COTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COTTON. Regrettably, the government has shut down because of the 
stubborn party line votes of the Senate Democrats.
  The House Republicans have acted reasonably and responsibly to act on 
two simple principles: the government should be funded, and the 
American people should get relief from ObamaCare. We have repeatedly 
made reasonable and responsible compromises. We couldn't repeal 
ObamaCare, so we offered to defund it. We offered to delay it for 
merely 1 year when the President has delayed so many parts of it 
himself, yet the Senate rejected every one of those compromises.
  And now we have simply said, if ObamaCare is such an amazing success 
story, then the Members of Congress and Senators and their staffers 
should live under the laws they imposed on the American people. Yet 
that is not enough for the Senate Democrats. They would rather keep 
their special exemption from ObamaCare than keep the government open.
  So when I'm asked, When will the government reopen? The answer is 
very simple: when the United States Senate puts the national interests 
ahead of their personal financial interests.

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