Renee L. Ellmers: “Thank you so much to my distinguished colleague from Georgia. This is such an important day. We have reached day one of…”

“Thank you so much to my distinguished colleague from Georgia. This is such an important day. We have reached day one of the ObamaCare exchange being up. If you look at the chart that we have up, very similar, Congressman Gingrey, to that same chart that you are showing, it is what North Carolina is seeing today. For any North Carolinian who is going on the Web site, it is not ready for prime time. I rise today to talk about the failures of ObamaCare and why we have persisted for so long to remove this terrible law. It is law, we get that. We understand it. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. However, it is a bad law. It is bad for America, it is bad for the economy. It is bad for health care. And as it is right now, it will not be improved. There's no way that we can change it, that we can improve it at this point. The exchanges being up, 32 States that are showing the same screen to those who are going online, those who have been promised this exchange so that they can check and see what kind of coverage they will have available to them, this is what they are seeing. Coupled with the government shutdown--which we all tried to avoid with every effort possible--there again, the Senate not cooperating with us, the President staying committed to ObamaCare going forward when we know the structure is simply not in place. You know, Mr. Speaker, I ran for office a couple of years ago. I was elected in 2010.…”