On the recordJuly 11, 2012
Mr. Reed, I want to thank you for managing this Special Order today, and thank you for allowing me some time to participate. I'm very proud of our freshman class here in Washington. We have changed things in this town, at least on this side of the Capitol, and we're responding to what the American people want. The American people overwhelmingly do not want ObamaCare. So I have to thank Mr. Palazzo and Mr. West and Mrs. Black. I assume Mr. Woodall's going to speak in a few minutes, and Mr. Gardner, and thank them for getting up here and telling the truth. A few minutes ago I was sitting in the Chair as the Speaker pro tempore, and the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi), a Democrat, and Mr. Tonko, a Democrat from New York, invited me to come down and debate with them, so I'm here to debate with them. If you'd listen to what the Democrats say about ObamaCare, you'd think the world was going to be perfect and butterflies were going to be singing Kumbaya. You'd think that everything was going to be just fine. When you go to the HHS Web site that talks about ObamaCare, all you see are all the things that tell you about how great your life is going to be, but it doesn't discuss the cost. And only in this town we call Washington, D.C., this town that's based on fantasy, can you believe things like that, where you can get everything for a cost of nothing. Well, Americans know that's not the case.…
