[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16350-16351]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       RESTORING AMERICANS' HEALTHCARE FREEDOM RECONCILIATION ACT

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 
3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act.
  Over the past 10 months, the House has passed a budget, acted to 
defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, and repealed 
ObamaCare; yet these actions by the House have been stonewalled in the 
Senate by its failure to garner the 60 votes necessary to deliver these 
important pieces of legislation to the President's desk. Now is our 
chance.
  This bill provides an avenue for the Senate to pass what the House 
has already done. This bill prohibits Federal funding to entities like 
Planned Parenthood that engage in the practice of elective abortions. 
In turn, it provides funding to community health centers for improving 
women's health care.

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  It repeals the individual and employer mandates in ObamaCare. It 
repeals the medical device tax and the excise tax on high-cost health 
insurance plans. It achieves all of this and more, while saving almost 
$79 billion in taxpayer dollars.
  This bill finally provides a pathway to the President's desk for 
reforms that we in the House have long fought for.

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