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What she was saying is: Don't provide health insurance for your employees. Just push your employees out in the cold. They can sit on the curb. They won't have employer-sponsored insurance--which, by the way, has zero tax consequence to the…
I was here in the Chamber with the gentleman. I saw and observed exactly what you said, that our colleagues across the aisle stood up and applauded. That is a constitutional crisis. As we are having this discussion today, we are in the…
She also fails to understand that the Federal Government again is practicing censorship and that the Federal Government is the one forcing its vision of morality and religious belief on every American. Again, that is government-enforced…
Well, remember that the tax to express your religious beliefs is $36,500 per employee. The tax is $2,000 per employee if you decide you are not going to purchase health insurance, so it is extremely expensive. I think the gentleman is…
The gentleman is exactly right because if you have an international body, whether it is the U.N. or some other international body--we know that the largest bloc in the U.N. is the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. And the…
That is why I call it a gangster government. It is a gangster government when you have to buy protection from your own government. In this instance, it is over $36,000 per year, per employee. In fact, the fine is in excess of what the wage…
This is how inexpensive it is. This doesn't deny any employee to go out and purchase a drug that would kill their child in the womb. You can purchase it at one retailer for $4 a month and another retailer--all of these retailers are widely…
In fines, in fines to the government, and nobody gives anything. In fact, you give up the health insurance you have today. That is why people are so upset, and rightly so, across the country because more people have lost health insurance…
We know exactly what they would say. Patrick Henry said: Give me liberty or give me death. They were willing to put their lives, their honor, their sacred fortune on the line to fight for exactly what the Obama administration has been…
Yes, it is very, very high, wonderful insurance that they already offer. Or they offer no insurance and they pay the government a $2,000 fine, and the employees don't get any health care, by the way. Or they can choose to violate their…
By the way, isn't it true, if the gentleman recalls, that while this Supreme Court Justice was just advocating, in a flippant way, drop health insurance coverage for over 16,000 employees, doesn't that same Supreme Court Justice enjoy…
Fundamentally what they are doing in this legislation, and apparently the question that the Supreme Court Justice asked today, that is what the Justice was saying. That is that you pay a fine of over $36,000 a year per employee, and then…
Let's talk about the reality as an employer and an employee of how egregious this tax is. The employers that were in front of the Supreme Court today, and there were two employers before the Supreme Court today, they could pay the tax…
Well, I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for allowing me to participate in this discussion, because this really is the issue of our day. People on a political level are talking about ObamaCare and how ObamaCare is destroying our…
The gentleman is absolutely correct because in that statement lies the premise. The premise that the justice is embracing is that you don't have a guaranteed right to religious expression and to religious thought; you don't have that…
I thank the gentlelady from Missouri for hosting this important discussion because nothing could be more important and more basic to every American than standing on the principle of our First Amendment rights of speech and religious…
I thank you for recognizing me for 30 minutes to speak on a topic, no matter where I go or what I speak on or if I am being interviewed somewhere, I am not the only one, it is other Members of Congress, too. This isn't a Republican issue…
Well, it really is something, and we had seen another couple in our church that were serving as foster parents. That is really what induced us to take on foster parenting. Our hearts broke when we saw the lives of some of these kids, and…
I would say think about it. It is not for everyone. But if you don't think you can do it--we didn't before we were foster parents. We took in one child, a beautiful girl. We took her from a homeless shelter, and we had the experience. It…
I thank Representative Huelskamp for sponsoring this important topic this evening on National Marriage Week. It is fitting and proper that we would set aside this period of 1 hour to focus on the institution that is the fundamental…
During rollcall vote 54, on the vote on Passage of H.R. 2954--The Public Access and Lands Improvement Act, I was away from the House floor and intended to vote ``aye.'' ____________________
I want to thank the Speaker for allowing me this 1 hour to talk on some very important subjects that are facing the Nation. We deal with economic issues. We deal with the health care crisis in our country. And Americans right now, as they…
We were told over and over again: if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it. We all found out that that wasn't true. I will never forget on the day that ObamaCare passed--I was here in this Chamber--we were promised by the…
Thank you so much to my colleague from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) who has long been the fearless leader of the issue of standing for the sacred right to life. One thing that we know in 41 years is that there has been a profound change in the…
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As always, it is a privilege to be able to come to the great well of the House of Representatives, the greatest deliberative body in the history of the world, to be here and have an opportunity to bring a voice to…
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