Louie Gohmert: “In my remaining time, I want to address the question of ObamaCare. Two years ago when Joe Biden was Vice President…”

“In my remaining time, I want to address the question of ObamaCare. Two years ago when Joe Biden was Vice President, making him President of the Senate, there was a compromise. Instead of doing complete and full repeal of ObamaCare as Republicans have been promising for years, there was a compromise: All right. We will take out all but the regulatory authority, those things that actually caused the greatest increase and expense. But it didn't change the fact, Mr. Speaker, that we had made a pledge to America that I didn't help write but our leaders of the Republican Party in the House did, and it said: Because the new healthcare law kills jobs, raises taxes, increases the cost of health care, we will immediately take action to repeal this law. Then it goes into some detail about that. Then we know we had A Better Way, Speaker Ryan, our leadership, current leadership's Better Way. And this was from June 22 of 2016. The plan begins by laying out five principles. It begins by repealing ObamaCare. That is all of it as its first principle. And the last sentence of the paragraph says: ``We need a clean start in order to pursue the patient-centered reforms the American people deserve.'' That is exactly right, and I was glad that our leadership of our party put that in there because we needed a full repeal. But 2 years ago, it wasn't a complete repeal. More so than what is being done now, in what we are being told is the new bill. It was more repeal then.…”