[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18439]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       THE TRAIN WRECK CONTINUES

  (Mr. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Georgia was absolutely 
right; the train wreck of ObamaCare continues.
  This week, we have three pieces of news. First of all, people going 
to the exchanges that were told they qualify for Medicaid really 
aren't. In fact, they won't find out until months past January 1 that 
they won't have insurance.
  In the State of Maryland, 25,000 people got cancelation notices and 
3,700 have signed up so far on the ObamaCare exchange, leaving tens of 
thousands of Marylanders without insurance on January 1.
  As the gentleman from Pennsylvania just mentioned, volunteer 
firefighters are now given a mandate that their volunteer fire 
companies have to buy insurance for them because now, under strange 
definitions, they are considered employed. Mr. Speaker, my volunteer 
firefighters aren't employees. We are going to drive volunteer fire 
companies out of business.
  This train wreck continues.
  Mr. Speaker, Americans deserve better.

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