On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I heard my friend, the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), as she was finishing her remarks and leaving, she said--I somewhat quote--she hopes this repeal of the ACA will, once and for all, be the end of the ACA. ``Once and for all.'' If they have done it once, they have done it 56 times. This is not one time. It is 56 times they have wanted to repeal the Affordable Care Act--56 times. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are probably pretty proud of themselves. After all, Joe DiMaggio, he had a 56-game hitting streak, something people say will never be equated again. But unlike ``Joltin' Joe,'' this one isn't a streak of hits. It is a streak of losses, a streak of strikeouts for the American people. It is a streak of being willing to sacrifice the health and well-being of your constituents just to make a cheap political point. This majority is apparently ready and eager to actually take away health coverage. As my friend from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell) said, try explaining this to your constituents back home. Take away the health coverage that people have purchased and have been using for over a year. They would make people, particularly seniors, pay back the tax credits that helped them afford the coverage in the first place. They would ask their seniors to go back to pinching pennies to afford prescription drugs and even force them to repay the rebate check they received for their high prescription drug costs.…
