[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13681]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           OBAMACARE MANDATE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, given President Obama's reflexive opposition 
to offering all Americans fair treatment under ObamaCare, you'd think 
the cost of ``fairness for all'' must be pretty astronomical. Not so.
  Extending ``fairness for all'' by giving American families the same 
break from ObamaCare that businesses are getting will save taxpayers 
and cut the Federal deficit.
  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that delaying 
ObamaCare's weighty individual mandate tax on the American people would 
reduce Federal deficits by roughly $36 billion over the 2014-2018 
period.
  Fairness makes sense. It's not just good policy; it's good for 
taxpayers and for the economy. No wonder Republicans and Democrats 
joined together this summer to stop the individual mandate just like 
President Obama decided to stop his Big Business employer mandate.
  We encourage President Obama to rethink his insistence on the 
individual mandate and to support ``fairness for all.''

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