On the recordDecember 11, 2013
I come to the floor today, as I have over the past several years, to talk about issues affecting this country. I know there is a nomination we are discussing on the floor, and I have concerns about the issues related to that nominee and the way that nomination has been brought forward because it was done by what I believe to be an abuse-of-power move in a way that resulted in voting in the middle of the night, discussions in the middle of the night--all, in my opinion, to distract from the disaster of the Obama health care law. The Obama health care law continues to affect people all across the country. What we saw on October 1 in the great debacle of the rollout of the Web site was really just about a Web site on October 1. But come January 1, it will be about real people who have lost their insurance who are going to be hurt personally in terms of their own health by this terrible law.…





