Louie Gohmert: “It has been quite an eventful week. We have taken up many things, and I couldn't be more proud of my friend from Texas…”

“It has been quite an eventful week. We have taken up many things, and I couldn't be more proud of my friend from Texas, Chairman Thornberry. He has done tremendous work on the National Defense Authorization and is to be applauded for trying to prevent the military from being weakened further than the sequester has already made it. One of the bills that we took up and passed today was the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, and I am anal enough I will get these bills and read them, so that is what I did. Amazingly, the first paragraph--of course, this bill came to us from the Senate as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, and many of us had concerns about it, but I didn't realize that the actual title of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act was--and this is the opening paragraph of the bill: Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives, H.R. 1191, entitled ``An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,'' do pass with the following. That is what it is. It is an IRS bill to adjust the Affordable Care Act, and it is hard for me to use those words ``Affordable Care Act'' because it is anything but affordable. It has cost people their insurance, their doctors, their health, their health insurance. It is laughable to call it affordable.…”