[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11634]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      LET'S PUT OFF THE SUFFERING

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, this evening, we had a difficult vote--
not difficult for some, but for some of us, it was.
  On the one hand, we had the President, who had announced he was going 
to do the unconstitutional even though he had pushed through ObamaCare 
without a single Republican vote for it, and people are beginning to 
realize just how devastating this is. They've lost their doctors; 
they've lost their insurance, and they're going to lose their 
insurance; people have been forced from full time to part time, and now 
they're seeking more part-time work to make up the difference; they're 
being told they're losing their benefits.
  This extra whammy for American workers was going to be even more 
devastating if the individual mandate went through. Somebody making 
$14,000 was either going to buy insurance he couldn't afford or pay 
extra income tax.
  Some of us knew if we would just let the whole thing go through, then 
people would be hurt, and they would demand repeal; but I had to vote 
not to make people suffer. Let's put off the suffering as long as 
possible and then, hopefully, repeal it.

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