[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11723]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                OBAMACARE SHOULD BE DELAYED PERMANENTLY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Smith) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on President 
Obama to delay his health care mandate for all Americans. ObamaCare is 
simply too overreaching, too intrusive, too unworkable, and too 
destructive for families across our Nation and in my home State of 
Missouri.
  In the years since ObamaCare was forced through Congress, the 
American people's opposition to the mandate has only grown, and rightly 
so. Americans are seeing skyrocketing premiums, they are losing the 
health insurance they have, and employers are cutting jobs, hours and 
wages.
  Last week, President Obama admitted that his health care mandate was 
flawed when he announced he would delay the employer mandate portion of 
the law for 1 year. Mr. Speaker, we don't need to only delay one 
section of the law; we need to delay the entire law permanently.
  Since the beginning, the only aspect of President Obama's health care 
law that has been bipartisan is the bipartisan opposition to the 
mandate. Since 2009, the House of Representatives has voted over 30 
times to repeal, defund or dismantle provisions of the law. As the 
newest Member of Congress, I will stand with my colleagues in pushing 
to defund and repeal the President's health care mandate.

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