[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12848-12849]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 KEEP THE IRS OFF YOUR HEALTH CARE ACT

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in May, the IRS proved to the 
American people it cannot be trusted to fairly enforce laws.
  As if the intentional targeting of Americans was not troubling 
enough, ObamaCare will give the IRS even more power in just a short 
month. That's right, the agency that bullied Americans for exercising 
their right of

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free speech will be the same agency involved in enforcing health care. 
Patients and their doctors should make the decisions that work best for 
them, not Washington, much less the IRS.
  Allowing the IRS to enforce ObamaCare opens the door to more abuse, 
targeting, and intimidation of Americans. That's why I join my 
colleagues in support of a commonsense bill, H.R. 2009, Keep the IRS 
Off Your Health Care Act, that will stop the IRS from enforcing or 
implementing any part of ObamaCare.
  It's time for our friends across the aisle to listen to the American 
people. Keep the IRS out of our lives and out of our health care.

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