Repeal of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. COTTON. Madam Speaker, every time Cato the Elder spoke in the Roman Senate, he said, whatever the topic, ``Carthage must be destroyed.'' As long as Carthage survived, the freedom and prosperity of the Roman people would never be secured.

As then with Carthage, so now with ObamaCare: as long as it remains on the books, the health, prosperity, and freedom of the American people will never be secure.

ObamaCare raids $700 billion from Medicare, meaning seniors across Arkansas will have their health care rationed as doctors refuse to see new Medicare patients.

ObamaCare creates an unelected and unaccountable panel of bureaucrats to ration and deny needed medical care for Arizona seniors.

ObamaCare will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket by as much as 60 to 100 percent for Arkansas families.

ObamaCare raises 21 taxes by more than $1 trillion and will cost at least $1.7 trillion in the first decade alone.

ObamaCare violates our freedom of conscience by using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion.

ObamaCare is corrupt to its rotten core. The government has exempted hundreds of the President's cronies from the law. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is right now shaking down private companies for millions of dollars to promote ObamaCare.

And, of course, the IRS, expanded by 2,000 agents, will be the main enforcement agency for ObamaCare, the very IRS who we now know targets the President's political opponents for harassment and intimidation.

Madam Speaker, ObamaCare must be repealed. I urge the Congress to repeal this abominable law, and I urge the American people to vote out of office every politician who voted for it 3 years ago.

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