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




                        NO MORE DAMAGING TACTICS

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives has put this 
country through a spectacle these past few months; and it was a 
spectacle that was based on the proposition that it was legitimate to 
actually have a discussion about whether we had to pay our bills.
  Mercifully, we are on the threshold of a bipartisan agreement 
whereby, number one, the Affordable Care Act will be the law of the 
land, and the debate in the future is not about its repeal; it is about 
improving it. It is about facing the challenges of implementation. 
Number two, we are repudiating as legitimate tactics to get your way, 
by any faction--it could be Democrats in the future--the use of tactics 
that do damage, threatening to default on our obligations and shutting 
down the government and inflicting pain on innocent people.
  So this struggle has damaged the institution, but the principles that 
were at stake are now resolved: one, the Affordable Care Act is the law 
of the land; two, you cannot use the tactic of shutdown or the tactic 
of default as a way to get your way on your agenda.

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