Chris Smith: “I thank Chairman Pitts so very much. Madam Speaker, on September 9, 2009, President Obama stood 6 feet from where I…”

“I thank Chairman Pitts so very much. Madam Speaker, on September 9, 2009, President Obama stood 6 feet from where I stand now, right at that podium, and told lawmakers and the American public in a specially called joint session of Congress on health care reform that ``under our plan, no Federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.'' In an eleventh hour ploy to garner a remnant of pro-life congressional Democrats--and they were convinced, and they were deceived--needed for passage of ObamaCare legislation, the President issued an executive order on March 24, 2010, and it said, in pertinent part: ``The act maintains current Hyde amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly-created health insurance exchanges.'' That is absolutely, I say to my friends, untrue. Despite an appalling degree of nontransparency, we finally asked the Government Accountability Office to look into it. Last September, they came back and said 1,036 ObamaCare exchange plans covered abortion on demand. GAO also found that a separate billing of the abortion surcharge required by the act is not being enforced by the administration, and the abortion funding premium, again, in 2015 is being illegally rolled into the total plan costs. Health care consumers are, therefore, unaware when they buy their health insurance whether or not they are paying for abortion on demand.…”