Vicky Hartzler: “Thank you, Diane, for those great words. Now I yield to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Ron DeSantis, who knows a little…”

“Thank you, Diane, for those great words. Now I yield to the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Ron DeSantis, who knows a little bit about serving his country in multiple ways, including being a part of the Navy. Mr. DeSANTIS. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I just want to address some things that I have been hearing out there that just strike me as wrong. The President said that ObamaCare has nothing to do with the budget. Now that is very rich, considering it was passed using budget reconciliation in order to ram it through the Senate with less than 60 votes. So it was a budget issue then. Somehow it's not now. Of course the individual mandate has been ruled a tax by the Supreme Court, and it authorizes trillions of dollars in new spending. Now some say ObamaCare is the law and, therefore, cannot be changed. Well, this body has the constitutional authority to legislate. We can always amend or change the laws. But I would also say, if this particular law is somehow so special and sacrosanct, then why isn't the President enforcing it, as written? Indeed, he has given waivers and exemptions to politically connected entities, including a bailout for Members of Congress, giving them relief from the text of the very law that they passed without reading. I think ObamaCare is dangerous in terms of how it's going to impact economic growth and medical care in the country. But just in terms of good government, this really is a recipe for institutionalized cronyism.…”