[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5946]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REPEALING HEALTH CARE LAW

  (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, it was 3 years ago when President 
Obama and congressional Democrats pushed through their government 
takeover of health care. In those 3 short years, the law has already 
cost the American people over $2 trillion and has raised taxes another 
$1 trillion--and the law isn't even fully enacted yet. And what do we 
have to show for it? Higher government spending, higher taxes, higher 
deficits, higher health insurance premiums, and a lower quality of 
health care.
  Companies all over the country are being forced to cut costs by 
laying off current employees or cutting their hours, putting on hold 
hiring new employees, and halting expansion. That is bad for American 
workers and bad for our economy.
  House Republicans are committed to defunding, delaying, and 
dismembering ObamaCare and will continue to fight for the American 
people to get rid of this terrible law and replace it with real reforms 
that will make our health care stronger. As one senior Democratic 
Senator said, ObamaCare is a ``train wreck.''

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