On the recordFebruary 2, 2011
I rise today in support of the McConnell amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill. What we have this afternoon actually is an opportunity to show the American people that we are listening to them. The American people want the ObamaCare law--the affordable health care law, as it is known--to be repealed and replaced with something less expensive, with something workable. Polls show this, the individuals with whom we speak when we go home tell us this, and this vote will be an opportunity for us to show them we are listening. I have heard some of my colleagues come to the floor this week and suggest that this massive, 2,000-page, tax-increasing, job-killing bill is, in fact, just what we need. I would suggest there are a number of facts that indicate otherwise. The other side would have us believe that without this health care law, this country is going to fall off the tracks and the world will virtually come to an end. They try to cite one or two popular proposals that are in this law, which, of course, could be enacted after repeal practically by unanimous consent, and ignore the fatal flaws in the law. The former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, during the consideration of this act in the House and Senate, famously told a grassroots group that had come to Washington, DC: We need to hurry up and pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.
