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“I thank the gentleman, the president of the freshman class, for that input. What I would like to say in follow-up to the gentleman from Florida, quoting the numbers--and the numbers are real. Just recently, the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, the independent bean counter of Washington, D.C., said that the real price tag under ObamaCare will be upwards of $1.76 trillion over 10 years added to our spending in Washington, DC. We're at $15.6 trillion in the hole, and we're going to add another $1.76 trillion to that pricetag, to that debt? It's not sustainable. We have to do better. We in the House of Representatives on the Republican side do have proposals and solutions that will replace ObamaCare and go a long way to turning that cost curve and our ever-increasing cost of health care in America. What I would like to do is go beyond the numbers. I can tell you from firsthand experience--and I know a lot of my colleagues believe in this just as I do. When I go back to my district in upstate New York, I go out and I talk to people on the front line. Just recently in the last month and a half, I went to a business just north of Cornell, New York, a small electronics company that's been struggling day after day, just trying to make ends meet. It has about 48 employees in his operation.…”