Mike Turner actually said...

"The only way we could take it on was first by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people."

"If you are a State and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get the tax credits, but your citizens will pay the taxes that support the bill."

"I certainly understand, when someone gets caught saying something as inflammatory as what you have said, how you might want to recant it."

"This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes."