[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17405-17406]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                GRUBER WASN'T TALKING ABOUT REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, a lot of my Republican friends have been 
upset with the comments of Jonathan Gruber, where he was quoted 
accurately as saying about ObamaCare: ``A lack of transparency is a 
huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter 
or whatever.''
  He also said that they--President Obama and the Democrats--proposed 
it and it ``passed because the American people are too stupid to 
understand the difference.''
  Now, I would say to my Republican colleagues: chill out. Don't worry. 
Not a single Republican voted for that bill. Not a single Republican in 
the Senate voted for that bill. He wasn't talking about Republicans. He 
wasn't talking about the Democrats, Independents, or Republicans who 
voted for Republicans to come to the House or the Senate. He was 
talking about the people he was paid millions by to work on ObamaCare. 
That is right--he called the Democrats stupid.
  He wasn't talking about Republicans. He knew we were smarter than 
that.

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