[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14963]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              GOP SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, well, here we are, the day my Republican 
colleagues have warned about for years, the day after ObamaCare. So 
what happened? Did the sky fall? Did insurance markets crash? No, of 
course not. Instead, health care marketplaces across the Nation went 
live. Millions of Americans logged on to learn about affordable health 
care plans. They gathered information to make decisions about what plan 
best meets their health care needs.
  Yes, some glitches need to be fixed, and we knew that would happen, 
but yesterday was not the end of the world. It was the beginning. It 
was the first step.
  The Tea Party, 46 times they attempted to shut down the Affordable 
Care Act. They stopped no one from being able to make good decisions on 
health care plans.
  So I urge my colleagues, commonsense Republicans and Democrats can 
still come together to stop this reckless GOP--the Grand Ole Party--
from shutting down our government. Let's pass a clean CR.

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