Paul Tonko: “I will just make mention of this, that I think the muddying up, if you will, of a CR, a continuing resolution, first…”

“I will just make mention of this, that I think the muddying up, if you will, of a CR, a continuing resolution, first, calling it a bill on the floor several times over is disingenuous. People place trust in us. You should honor that trust, and not, nomenclature-wise, change the outcome here. We have an act of Congress that was signed into law. This is a law of the land, in this case, to provide for affordable, accessible, quality health care. If you didn't like that result, there were opportunities to change it. Candidate Romney, Governor Romney, Representative Ryan, as the Vice President, they ran to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The people of this great Nation decided in that Presidential election for the re- election effort of President Obama, that they were going to stay with the President. So that statement was made. The highest court in the land reviewed it for constitutionality. They approved that, gave it a thumbs-up. Why are we still dwelling on this situation? Why are we bogging down the process, where you either defund, deny, repeal, whatever the course may be. We have seen it over and over again, so that 45, 46, 47 votes in a row to repeal were all denied. When you do the same thing over and over and over again, expecting different results, people have defined that as insanity. So we have not provided the sort of integrity this process needs.…”