On the recordJanuary 18, 2011
Lest we forget, this is the disaster that we are told would be repugnant to repeal. It started out as an act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify first-time homebuyers' credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces. We took a bill that was designed to help veterans and the Senate stripped it all out and stuck in this disaster of a health care bill. Just as we heard in the late 1990s that you can't pass welfare reform, you will leave women without anything, you heartless, mean people, it was because people here had hearts and wanted to see single women with children doing better that welfare reform had to be done. It was sent to the President; he wouldn't sign it. It was re-sent to the President; he wouldn't sign it. He finally signed it, and for the first time since the Great Society legislation came about, after 30 years of flat line, when adjusted for inflation single women with children, after welfare reform, began to have increases in income. We heard all the naysayers then; we are hearing them now. It's because we want people to have the best health care. It's because we don't want what the President said when he told the Democratic Caucus, before it passed. Gee, you go to the doctor now and have five tests, after this bill you will go and get one test. My mother had to have six days of tests to find her tumor. I don't want rationed care. I want health care to be legislated the way the President promised it would be.
