[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3608]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND EARLY ACT ANNIVERSARY

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, good luck--mazel tov--to my 
colleagues.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the 
Affordable Care Act. This was President Obama's and congressional 
Democrats' landmark law, which has helped 20 million Americans--1.7 
million Floridians in my home State--get quality, affordable health 
care.
  It is a law that outlawed discrimination against people like me--a 
woman and a cancer survivor--who could have been prevented from 
obtaining care before the ACA ended that injustice.
  It is also the anniversary of the EARLY Act, a law that I was proud 
to author, which passed as part of the ACA. The EARLY Act empowers 
young women with the information and resources they need to understand 
their breast health and the risks that they face.
  As a cancer survivor and a mother, these two anniversaries are near 
and dear to my heart. I will continue working with my sister survivors, 
with the healthcare and cancer communities, along with Vice President 
Biden's inspirational National Cancer Moonshot, to expand care; protect 
more of our daughters, sisters, and mothers; and, finally, beat cancer 
once and for all.

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