Political Quotes

“House Resolution 70 provides for a rule to consider the full repeal of the flawed and ill-conceived Affordable Care Act. The rule provides for 90 minutes of debate, divided and controlled by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Further, the rule self-executes the Byrne amendment, which provides for a clean repeal of the entire Affordable Care Act. The rule further provides the minority with one motion to recommit with or without instructions. This approach--a full repeal--will give the House, particularly freshmen from both parties, an opportunity to have an up-or-down vote on the Affordable Care Act. More than just a full repeal, the legislation before us provides for a process whereby the committees of jurisdiction are tasked with coming up with a replacement for the flawed law now being implemented. We know what ideas don't work. Those are the ideas enshrined into law in the Affordable Care Act. Now let's look toward ideas that will work. {time} 1230 I do look forward to working with the Energy and Commerce Committee's chairman, Fred Upton, to craft meaningful legislation that will actually help the American people instead of strangle them with more government regulation, which is what the Affordable Care Act actually does. Americans should have the freedom to make their own health care decisions.…”