Mike Conaway: “I thank my colleague from Ennis, Texas. I appreciate his hosting this hour. Mr. Speaker, as we all know, this Affordable…”

“I thank my colleague from Ennis, Texas. I appreciate his hosting this hour. Mr. Speaker, as we all know, this Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, or as most of the folks in District 11 want to refer to it, the ``Unaffordable Care Act,'' was passed in this House by the slimmest of margins in March of 2010 and then passed without, frankly, one Republican vote. It was also passed in the Senate by parliamentary tricks that were used to avoid the 60-vote issue that they lost. Once they lost the Ted Kennedy seat to Scott Brown, it eliminated their ability to cram it through there. They had to resort to some parliamentary issues. Again, with not one Republican vote to make that happen. While our colleagues on the other side may say that this is currently the law of the land, that was 3\1/2\ years ago. Today, poll after poll is showing that the American people are expressing themselves that they do not want this bill and the underlying requirements and costs associated with it crammed down their throat. Much like those now infamous words of Speaker Pelosi when she said that we were going to have to pass this bill before we would know what is in it, the American people are going to have to suffer through this flawed rollout in order to understand what is in it that they do not like as part of the implementation of this deal. {time} 1300 Mr.…”