On the recordApril 9, 2014
I will continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, I will yield myself the balance of my time to close, having no further requests for time. I have been an expat. I was in the State Department. The State Department sent me overseas. I lived over there. I came home 1 month a year. I would leave. The rest of the time, I was an expat. That is pretty clearly an expat. My daughter teaches at the King's Academy in Amman, Jordan. She is an expat. She lives over there. She comes home in the summertime for a month or so. She is an expat. Everybody understands that. What this bill says is, if you live in Seattle and you make 15 trips a year out of the country, then you are an expat, or you could be considered an expat. Now, that is not exactly what I think most people think of when they think of an expat--or somebody who works as a contractor. Suppose you work for the Federal Government for 3 months overseas. Are you an expat? According to this, you are. You can easily be put in that category and not be offered the protections. That means you don't have any protections around the issues of preexisting conditions. You can't necessarily put your kids on your insurance up until age 26. Your lifetime limits, all of the things that are built into the Affordable Care Act, the insurance companies now can say: we don't have to offer that to you because you are out of the country 15 times a year, or you have worked overseas for 90 days. As Mr.…
