Rob Woodall: “My friend from Florida is very earnest in his comments. One of the reasons I enjoy working with him so much on the Rules…”

“My friend from Florida is very earnest in his comments. One of the reasons I enjoy working with him so much on the Rules Committee is we get to work on issues that affect people's lives--that make a difference for folks back home. Even though we are here debating the WRDA bill, I would be remiss if I let the reference to the CO-OP bill, coming later on today, pass as being an attack on ObamaCare or even pass as being a waiver of the budget rules. Mr. Speaker, if you have had a chance to look at that, what you know is that, when U.S. citizens were forced out of the insurance policies that they liked and into the ObamaCare system and when those ObamaCare policies they were forced into failed midyear and they lost the insurance that they were forced into after having already lost the insurance that they had chosen for themselves, the law said we are now going to come and tax you--penalize you--once again because you have let your insurance policy lapse. This is the absurdity of having lost your insurance policy because the law took it from you, of having the law force you into a second insurance policy, which then collapses under its own weight because it cannot support itself, and then of you, the American taxpayer, having to be on the hook.…”