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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

Yes, look, even in the CNN's latest poll, a majority of Americans, over 50 percent, at 51 percent in CNN's poll, want the individual mandate repealed.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

Yes, look, even in CNN's latest poll, a majority of Americans, over 50 percent, at 51 in CNN's poll -- and the average is about a 10 percent gap -- want the individual mandate repealed, want Obamacare in its entirety repealed.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

The Supreme Court is the final word, right? Isn't that the highest court in the land? And they said it was a tax, didn't they? So it's a tax, of course, if that's what they say it is.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

He wants to institute free market policies on health care. He wants to take the government out between the patient and their doctors, and he wants to make sure that people have more freedom and choice in their health care and that's what…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

But the important thing to note is that Governor Romney says, like it or not, the Supreme Court has ruled, it's the law of the land, it is a tax.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

It does, particularly when you're on the committees that are charged with maybe tightening up the rules and regulations, because we were dealing with all these bad loans and whatnot.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

It would be as if I went to interview the head of Countrywide and I spent the first 30 minutes of the interview or before the cameras are rolling complaining about my personal mortgage to the guy and then get directed to some program. I…

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

Well, there was no quid pro quo. We could not directly tie somebody's vote directly to getting this benefit as the report points out.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

I think there's still some outstanding issues. But it was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

Well, the Ethics Committee in general is fairly impotent. Usually, it's -- the voters have to deal with this and make these types of decisions.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Jul 4, 2012

It was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right, Anderson.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Jul 1, 2012

What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare.

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Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Jun 29, 2012

Mr. President, a portion of the abandoned mine land trust fund program falls within the jurisdiction of the Senate Finance Committee. I am also committed to working with my colleagues from Wyoming to correct this situation. I hope we can…

Congressional Record · 2012-06-29
Orrin Hatch
@orrinhatch· Republican · UT· Jun 29, 2012

Mr. President, at the first public meeting of the conference committee charged with producing transportation reauthorization legislation, I laid out a series of basic principles that I think should guide our efforts to finance…

Congressional Record · 2012-06-29