Mike Enzi: “the repeal resolution we have been debating in the Senate this week will complete the first step toward reducing the…”

“the repeal resolution we have been debating in the Senate this week will complete the first step toward reducing the Federal Government's role that has prevented Americans from pursuing affordable and accessible health care that meets their needs without emptying their wallets. After we complete our repeal work, the Senate can then vigorously pursue putting the Nation on a more responsible and sustainable fiscal path and address government's out- of-control spending and a mammoth national debt when we begin our work on the fiscal year 2018 budget. I thank my colleagues for their consideration and cooperation for bringing us to this point, and I thank Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his leadership in pushing the Senate to take the first steps to repair the Nation's broken health care system and to remove Washington from the equation in order to put control of health care back where it belongs: with the patients and their families and their doctors. This commitment to an open, honest, and transparent legislative process is crucial to helping Congress restore the trust of the American people. Thanks, as well, are due to many Members on this side who came and spoke on the resolution's behalf, who worked with us and each other to move through the resolution, the debate, the amendments, the votes, the whole process.…”