On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
This amendment No. 266, someone put the moniker on it 'The Silver Bullet Amendment.' And as much as we have all worked here to try to find the right way to shut off all of the funding to freeze in place the implementation and enforcement of ObamaCare, many of us have worked in a number of different ways. This is the amendment that looks at the pattern that was set, that I understood, back in 1974, when there was a CR before the House of Representatives that shut off all funding that would go to the Vietnam War for offensive or defensive operations, in the air, over the land of, the seas adjacent to, or the countries adjacent to it. That language covered everything, and it stopped bullets on the dock from going into the hands of people to defend themselves. I disagree with the policy. But the foundation is here in multiple places in the history of this Congress. This is the language that shuts off the funding of ObamaCare until such time as H.R. 2 becomes law. That's the repeal legislation that becomes law. This is H.R. 1. It's completely appropriate--and H.R. 2 and H.R. 1 are married together-- that we shut off the funding for implementation of ObamaCare, all of it, the entire $105.5 billion that was slipped into this report that we just got back last February 10. So I urge the adoption of this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.
