Xavier Becerra: “``The Least Productive Congress Ever,'' that's the title of an article in today's Washington Post. Here is how the…”

“``The Least Productive Congress Ever,'' that's the title of an article in today's Washington Post. Here is how the article begins: Congress, in case you have been living on another planet for the last few years, doesn't do all that much these days. So we are, debating again--for the 38th time--a bill to repeal all or part of our Nation's health security law. We've heard this broken record 37 times before and it sounds the same and it goes nowhere. But there is more consequence to this partisan agenda than just wasting the American people's time and adding to the record of the least productive Congress ever. Wasting the American people's time 38 times wastes the American taxpayers' money. According to CBS News reports, this obsession to vote over and over and over 38 times on these partisan bills has cost the American taxpayers more than $50 million. That's an expensive ticket for political theater. So what are the facts on this legislation? The Congressional Budget Office, our country's fiscal watchdog, says this about H.R. 2668: ``Health insurance premiums''--under this legislation--``for individually purchased coverage would be higher under H.R. 2668. In addition, the number of people with health insurance coverage would be reduced.'' Translated, the cost for health insurance and health care for Americans will go up and the number of Americans with insurance coverage will go down under this legislation.…”