On the recordJanuary 19, 2011
I think it is important to understand and remember how we got here. When the Senate passed their bill on Christmas Eve of 2009, there was not a soul on either side of the aisle in the House of Representatives who thought that that turkey would work. The bill that they passed, everybody knew it was bad. So when it became procedurally impossible to change it, the Democrats decided to push for this bill that everyone understood would not work, and that is what we are dealing with today. I think it is very promising that now--Iowa just yesterday joined a lawsuit so there is a majority of the States in this country that now say let's repeal this, that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. So not only are we stuck with a horrible bill, an unconstitutional bill that everyone knows and understood back then would never work, now they want to preserve this. We have got to repeal this and replace it with commonsense reforms that will actually work for the American people.
