[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15931]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   OBAMACARE NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last night I hosted a 
teletown hall with constituents across South Carolina's Second 
Congressional District. Apart from the vast majority calling for the 
President and Democrats in the Senate to negotiate with House 
Republicans to end the shutdown, an overwhelming number of constituents 
expressed concern about the administration's disastrous ObamaCare roll-
out.
  During its first week, 9.47 million Americans visited the government 
Web site, but only 36,000 were able to complete the enrollment due to 
glitches. Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has stated 
this is ``excruciatingly embarrassing for the White House,'' and he 
hopes ``they fire some people that were in charge of making sure this 
thing was supposed to work.''
  Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has failed, spending hundreds of millions 
of dollars. House Republicans have warned that the unaffordable, 
unsustainable health care law is not ready. The President, himself, has 
admitted this by delaying key components. Congress must continue to 
work to replace it with a plan to preserve the doctor-patient 
relationship.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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