On the recordJuly 11, 2012
I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate the Speaker for being down here with us, and I appreciate the comments of my friend from Texas. He says, you know, if you want to, you can just go and read the law. Wouldn't that be neat? Wouldn't that be neat? If you wonder what some of those reforms are that the freshman class brought to this body, you can now go and read the law. There is time to make that happen, and that is what is so frustrating to me about this debate. I appreciate the way that you all have highlighted each and every one of these things, because when I go to the folks back home, they say, Rob, the President told me he's going to bring down health care costs. Wouldn't that be good? I say, Yes, that would be good. They say, The President tells me he's going to ensure that I can keep the policy that my family knows and loves today. Wouldn't that be good? I say, Yes, that would be good. Then the people say, Well, Rob, he tells me he's going to make sure that children who don't have access to health care today will have access to health care tomorrow. Wouldn't that be good? I say, Yes, that would be good. They say, So why do you oppose the bill? I say, Because it doesn't do any of those things. Take a look. Now, the CBO tells us it's 800,000 jobs that this bill destroys. Let's say it's only 700,000. That's 700,000 too many. Study after study tells us this is raising costs with all the mandates--mandate after mandate after mandate--from the Federal level.…
