John Cornyn: “now that the so-called nuclear option has been averted and the Senate can now turn its attention to other matters of…”

“now that the so-called nuclear option has been averted and the Senate can now turn its attention to other matters of substance, rather than internal matters of how the Senate operates, I think it is important we evaluate how legislation that has passed this body is working. I wish to focus specifically on the Affordable Care Act, which is better known as ObamaCare. Amazingly, Senator Reid on Sunday, in one of the talk shows, was quoted as saying: ``ObamaCare has been wonderful for America.'' The House minority leader, former Speaker Pelosi, has said that implementation of the health care law has been fabulous. This stands in stark contrast to what Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the principal Senate architects of ObamaCare, has said--what he told Secretary Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services--that the implementation of ObamaCare is a train wreck in the making. And then you contrast that with what President Obama himself said about the Affordable Care Act, about ObamaCare, and he said it is ``working the way it is supposed to.'' Well, not all of those things can be true at the same time, and they are not. Indeed, in the real world, unfortunately, it looks as though ObamaCare is a slow-motion disaster in the making.…”