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On the recordJuly 23, 2014
I come to the floor today because Democrats in Washington continue to put out misleading information about the President's health care law. Last week the Senator from Connecticut came to the floor and said Republicans have, in his words, gone silent when it comes to talking about the health care law. He claimed there was a quiet acceptance that the law is working. Well, I just want to correct the record and make it perfectly clear Republicans have not gone quiet because the health care law is not working. The American people are not going quiet either. They are not going quiet when it comes to talking about the devastating side effects they are feeling from the health care law. I hear it from people when I go home to Wyoming every weekend. I heard it last weekend. I heard it last night on a telephone townhall meeting, and when I travel I hear about it--even just passing through the airport in Denver on the way home, which I do each week. As chairman of the Republican policy committee, one of my responsibilities is to study how policies that come out of Washington-- like the President's health care law--affect people all across America, including States such as Colorado, where I change planes each week. Last week the Denver Post had an op-ed written by Dr. Cyndi Tucker, an obstetrician/gynecologist who practices medicine in Thornton, CO, outside Denver. Her op-ed was published in the Denver Post, which is, of course, the statewide newspaper in Colorado.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Jul 23, 2014

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