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On the recordJanuary 19, 2011
Mr. Speaker, let me offer 1.6 million reasons why we should repeal ObamaCare. That's the number of jobs that will be lost from just one provision, the employer mandate, according to the NFIB, the largest small business organization in America. The half a trillion dollars in new taxes, the 1099 form, the minimum benefit standard, all job-crushing regulations. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to ObamaCare, you cannot help the job seeker by punishing the job creator. Let me offer 2.6 trillion more reasons that we must repeal ObamaCare. That is the true cost of this legislation; $700 billion more added to the deficit. Now, I know my friends on the other side of the aisle will contend something else, but somehow in their accounting they left out the $115 billion it costs to implement. They double-counted almost half a trillion dollars in taxes, Social Security, cutting Medicare by half a billion, the sleight of hand of 10 years of taxes, 6 years of spending. Mr. Speaker, you cannot improve the health care of a nation by impoverishing its children. Here is one more reason, Mr. Speaker. The American people don't want it. It's personal. Here is my story. Two days ago I was in San Antonio, Texas. My mother had a large tumor removed from her head. They wheeled her away at 7:20 in the morning. By noon, I was talking to her, along with the rest of our family. It proved benign. Thanks to a lot of prayers and good doctors at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, my mother is fine.…
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Jeb Hensarling
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