On the recordJanuary 20, 2011
Madam Speaker, yesterday was a great day for democracy and freedom in this country. Yesterday, the Republican-led Congress voted to repeal a health care law that was passed by the Democrats that would mandate, that would force people to buy something even if they didn't want to. It's unconstitutional, it's un-American, and it is not what this country stands for. Now we are hearing a lot of our colleagues on the other side talk about how we want to strip away this and we want to strip away that and we are playing games and this resolution is a game. Well, let me remind you that it was the President of the United States in his State of the Union that talked about tort reform, which was not included in ObamaCare. We intend to include tort reform in this Congress. We also believe that association health plans are very important to ensure that more people have access to health care, something that your side of the aisle failed to do. There are real ways to do commonsense reforms. It is not by having the government mandate what you have to buy as a citizen of this country. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.
