[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15455]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SENATE SHOULD PASS HOUSE VERSION OF CR

  (Mr. CASSIDY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to repeat what my colleague 
from Florida said. My Democratic colleagues have suggested that if the 
House only passes the clean Senate CR, we can move on with business. I 
will point out if the Senate will only consider the House CR, we can 
also move on.
  But the problem is that there's two provisions. One provision takes 
away a sweetheart deal that only Members of Congress and their staff 
get. Secondly, since the President delayed the mandate on employers to 
provide insurance for a year, we would similarly delay the mandate on 
the employee to have that insurance.
  If she is relying upon her employer to provide the policy, what is 
she to do if he is given a break on not providing that policy?
  We can quickly reopen the government. The House Republicans have 
voted a budget which would completely fund the government, but it has 
those provisions which Senator Reid will not even negotiate over. He 
will not come together to discuss these two things.
  So, as a favor to both our country and the American taxpayer, I ask 
Senator Reid to address it.

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