Joe Barton: “For the last hour, the minority in the House, the Democrat Party, has had the right to speak to the American people in…”

“For the last hour, the minority in the House, the Democrat Party, has had the right to speak to the American people in their leadership Special Hour. I think the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from California did a good job of presenting the side of the story as they viewed it. Having said that, Mr. Speaker, the late Paul Harvey had a radio program for many, many years that many of us listened to, and in that radio program he would tell us ``The Rest of the Story.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, for the next hour, those of us on the majority side, the Republican side--most of us from Texas, although we're going to have some friends from Michigan and perhaps from Florida, too--are going to tell you the other side of the story, the rest of the story. And let's start by discussing this continuing mantra from the minority side that we ought to just bring up the clean continuing resolution, or CR, from the other body, the Senate, and life would be perfect. Well, Mr. Speaker, there's one tiny, small problem with that. And that is, Mr. Speaker, that that continuing resolution funds the discretionary part of something that is legally called the Affordable Care Act, but most people in the United States are now calling it ObamaCare. Mr. Speaker, ObamaCare is a huge new entitlement. It's not just another Federal program. It changes, fundamentally, the way we practice medicine in the United States of America. It changes, fundamentally, the rights of Americans. Mr.…”