On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
Let's be reminded why we are here today. We are here because the leadership of the 111th Congress couldn't even pass a budget. However, my colleagues across the aisle did manage to pass this monstrosity with a closed rule and no debate. This, my friends, is ObamaCare. No one had time to read it, much less understand how it would actually affect small businesses. As a nurse and small business owner, I can tell you that this bill is devastating to health care and the economy. Calling a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy 'reform' over and over and over again does not make it so. Not only should we pass this amendment; we should pass this CR so we can save the American taxpayers from funding this outrageously bad bill. Then we can get to work providing real health care reforms that give the decision-making back to the doctors, nurses and patients, not to Washington bureaucrats.
