G. K. Butterfield: “Thank you very much, Mr. Pallone, for yielding time this morning, and thank you for your extraordinary leadership on our…”

“Thank you very much, Mr. Pallone, for yielding time this morning, and thank you for your extraordinary leadership on our committee and for giving affordable health care to every American. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning to oppose H.R. 2775. This bill, if passed by the House and passed by the Senate and signed by the President, which I would say is highly unlikely, would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to certify to Congress that an income verification system is in place before any subsidies can be distributed for individuals to purchase health insurance through the marketplace. Here you go again--repeal effort No. 41. The Republican majority is obsessed with discrediting the President of the United States by using every procedural maneuver imaginable to weaken this law, which was passed by the Congress and upheld by the United States Supreme Court. I invite my Republican colleagues to read a report published by the Congressional Budget Office, which states that HHS already has in place sufficient safeguards for distributing subsidies to assist uninsured Americans with the purchase of insurance. This is not an honor system, Mr. Pitts. It is written into the law, and the Congressional Budget Office recognizes that we do have in place a system to verify the incomes.…”