[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 37]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REHASHING OLD, TOXIC ATTACKS

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, here we are, the very first day back for the 
House of Representatives in 2016, and already the House Republicans are 
rehashing old, toxic attacks on women's access to health care and on 
working families.
  Here in 2016 we were hoping to see a House of Representatives that 
would look forward, forward to reducing the cost of health care for all 
Americans and to helping pass the bill that would require pay equity 
for women. Instead, under the guise of this reconciliation bill, a 
technical term that is coming before the body this week, this 
Republican bill would defund Planned Parenthood, strip away affordable 
family planning and lifesaving cancer screenings for millions of 
American women across the country. It would dismantle the Affordable 
Care Act. In fact, it is the 62nd vote from this body to repeal that 
act.
  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the 
Republican bill before this body this week would take healthcare 
coverage away from 22 million Americans next year alone. That is not 
right for the country, it is not right for women, and it is not right 
for this body. Let's move forward with a pro-woman agenda, a pro-
healthcare agenda, rather than the same toxic bills that they have 
tried and failed to pass over 62 times.

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