[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15697-15698]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, a picture is worth a thousand words, and 
I felt like it was appropriate today because so many of our colleagues 
say, Why do we want to discuss ObamaCare when we talk about the budget 
or talk about the continuing resolution?
  And here is the reason why. It is a program that is too expensive to 
afford.
  Take a look at this graph. We all know that, supposedly, when 
ObamaCare started out--by the way, as an insurance access program for 
the nearly 40 million that didn't have insurance--it was to be under $1 
trillion, exactly $863 billion.
  So now we look at what has happened to the growth of this program. 
CBO shows us, looking at this, when you address $1.4 trillion, 1.7, we 
are now at $2.6 trillion in costs over a 10-year period of time.
  So to my colleagues, Mr. Speaker, I say, this is why we have to put 
this program on the table and discuss it. It

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is now a nationalization of 17 percent of our Nation's economy and has 
gone from under $1 trillion to $2.6 trillion. Let's get the spending 
under control.

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