Healthcare

October 2, 2013

"Last month I received a letter from the Human Resources Manager at my place of employment that states I am going to receive a 23% pay cut as a result of Obama Care. They say they are required by the Employer Mandate to provide insurance for every employee or face a fine. My 23% pay cut is equal to $22,000 and will financially devastate my family, as I am the primary income of our family...

Issues:Healthcare

Resolving the Healthcare and Fiscal Dilemma - A Common Course for Common Goals

September 28, 2013

Speeches

A crisis is not a good time for inflammatory rhetoric and ad hominem attacks. I will simply say that yesterday, the President missed an opportunity to bring both sides together. That responsibility now rests solely with us. Nobody on the Republican side of the aisle wants to see a government shutdown or a credit default. And I am confident that nobody on the Democratic side wants to see millions of Americans lose the health plans they were told they could keep; or see their healthcare costs skyrocket, or lose their jobs or work hours because of the unintended consequences of Obamacare.

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicHealthcare

The 29-ers

May 13, 2013

Speeches

Across the country, employers are holding office meetings and the announcement goes something like this: "We love you guys. But here's what we make; here's what Obamacare will cost us; we can't stay in business with Obamacare. But if we cut back everybody to 29 hours per week, we can avoid the mandate and stay in business."

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicHealthcare

Seven Steps to Restore Prosperity

September 28, 2012

Speeches

The good news about our economy is that it hasn't been struck down by some mysterious act of God. Acts of Government plague our nation -- and acts of Government are entirely within our power to change.

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicHealthcareGovernment Regulation

An Appeal to a Higher Court

July 10, 2012

Speeches

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision on the so-called "Affordable Care Act," the House will once again take up the imperative of repealing it. But the Supreme Court decision has much more dire implications for our nation and its cherished freedoms than merely affirming the government take-over of our health care. In reaching its conclusion, the Court obliterated a fundamental distinction between a penalty and a tax.

Issues:Healthcare

Obamacare Repeal

July 10, 2012

Speeches

M. Speaker: Obamacare was sold to the American people on three claims, all of which were false. First, they said it would bend the cost-curve down. But the Medicare actuary admitted to the House Budget Committee that it will add at least $300 billion more to our health care costs.

Issues:Healthcare

Putting Freedom Back to Work

October 26, 2011

Speeches

House Chamber, Washington, D.C. October 26, 2011. M. Speaker: The government’s continuing failure to address our nation’s gut-wrenching unemployment stems from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created in the first place.

We are now in the third year of policies predicated on the assumption that government spending creates jobs.

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicHealthcare

Repealing Obamacare

January 18, 2011

Speeches

House Chamber, Washington, D.C. January 18, 2011.

M. Speaker:

The central promises of Obamacare were that it would bend health costs down and wouldn’t threaten existing plans.

We now know that both these claims were false.

Issues:Healthcare

Speech to Blue Shield of California Employees

October 27, 2010

Speeches

El Dorado Hills, California, October 25, 2010.

In a moment of breathtaking condescension during the debate over ObamaCare, Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it…”

Issues:Fiscal and EconomicHealthcareLocal Issues

They Did and We Are

April 27, 2010

Speeches

House Chamber, Washington, D.C. April 27, 2010. M. Speaker:

During the recent health debate, the Speaker ominously said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

They passed it. And now we’re finding out what’s in it.

Issues:Healthcare