[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11586-11587]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         OBAMACARE IS A BAD LAW

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the President announced that his 
administration plans to ignore ObamaCare's employer mandate for 1 year, 
exempting businesses from its harmful side effects.
  The White House scrambling is to be expected. ObamaCare is a bad law. 
But it's a bad law the President asked for; and it's a bad law he, as 
mastermind and chief enforcer, must obey, unless Congress authorizes a 
change.
  It's no secret to anyone that House Republicans see ObamaCare for the 
broken law it is. We don't want any American to suffer under its 
weight. We voted nearly 40 times to delay, dismantle, or repeal the 
law, and we'll vote again to delay the implementation of ObamaCare's 
onerous employer mandate today.
  But we aren't stopping there. If businesses are getting a break from 
the President's law, individual Americans should, too.

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  Attempting to justify selective enforcement is beyond rationality. 
Delaying the individual mandate tax is a matter of basic fairness.

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