Steve Cohen: “What this shows is exactly what the situation is. You've got a majority in the House that's against the Affordable Care…”

“What this shows is exactly what the situation is. You've got a majority in the House that's against the Affordable Care Act, and you've got a majority in the Senate that's for it. To have any rules and regulations under it go into effect, the House and the Senate would both have to approve it, which means you could have one House, not both Houses, the way we work, it's a bicameral legislature and the House and the Senate have to work together and pass the bill to become law. But one House, by not passing it, could kill it--one House veto. This Republican Congress could veto every single regulation under the Affordable Care Act. And then preexisting conditions, no insurance. Lifetime caps, back in effect. Yearly caps, back in effect. Child's 23, nope, can't stay on dad and mom's policy anymore. Get hurt, go broke. Too bad. That's just wrong. And that's what this would do for any regulations. One House could veto and kill legislation. That's antithetical to the bicameral legislature. That's just one of the many reasons why we should defeat this amendment, defeat the bill, and go on and try to pass a jobs bill, and kill sequester, and see that the National Institutes of Health, which is cut $1.6 billion by sequester, isn't cut. That's our Department of Defense. They protect us from Alzheimer's, AIDS, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's. Those are the enemies.…”