On the recordJanuary 11, 2017
I thank Chairman Walker for organizing the time tonight, and I congratulate the gentleman on leading this organization. I look forward to working with him. Mr. Speaker, we could all stand up here and take the barbs that have been leveled by some as to how we don't care about people or how we are this or that or how we are just focused on the numbers. Nothing could be further from the truth. We could sit idly by and watch this terrible, insidious law continue to implode, to continue to hurt more and more Americans--insidious because it is built on lies, like you can keep your doctor if you want to, like you can keep your health plan if you want to--not true in any case. Instead, we are here tonight, talking with the American people about ``what could be'' when we first get rid of this terrible law--something that many of us have voted on 60 times or more to do. We now have a real opportunity with not only a Republican House, but a Republican Senate, and with a President who is willing to work with us. The verdict is in. In Indiana alone and in my district, I have met person after person who has horror stories about the failure of ObamaCare. I spoke with Anna, whose husband, Jack, survived stage IV cancer. With Jack's cancer only having a 30 percent survival rate, it is crucial that he has effective doctors who know how to treat and how to work the problem.…
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