[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4885]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUPREME COURT COMMENTS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I went over and heard the audio 
as the argument before the Supreme Court was taking place. It was 
shocking to hear a Supreme Court Justice ask Paul Clement why his 
client didn't just pay the tax and then they could have their religious 
ideas and religious beliefs. Of course, he called it a penalty, as the 
statute called it.
  She said: Well, the legislation called it a tax. She didn't even know 
that the majority opinion said on page 15 that it is a penalty because 
Congress called it a penalty. Forty pages later, the majority called it 
a tax so they could uphold it.
  Outrageous. Pay your religion tax, and then you can have your 
religious beliefs in America. Where is it going to stop if we don't 
stop it now?

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