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complete it, has until april 15 to actually finish it off. so, the 7.1 million number, the number of folks who have enrolled, would very likely i think go up by at least a few hundred thousand people. mr. takano: at least the folks in texas who can sign up with the federal exchange can get insurance if they're in line. but it's unfortunate that those low-income texans have no place to go. i'll just say to the folks in california, those low-income people that can still qualify for medical, you can still sign up. there's not a deadline for you, you're presumed qualified if you meet a certain test, income test. so thesques of the affordable care act will still continue in my state for those who need health care the most and those to heretofore not had access
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medical care. it's been a pleasure sharing this time with you on the floor, representative. mr. castro: thank you very much. you know, one thing i hadn't talked about yet that's also very important to know, another benefit of the affordable care act, we know that 7.1 million people have signed up, you know, three million or more college student, or young adults are able to stay on their parent's plans because of the affordable care act. millions more have benefited from medicaid expansion, millions of americans also benefit because there's no longer lifetime caps, you know, you're not going to have somebody who is suffering from cancer in a hospital bed have a doctor or administrative billing person from the hospital come talk to you about the fact that you're about to hit your lifetime cap so now not only are you liing there sick in the hospital bed, you're thinking about how you're going to pay your mortgage and keep your kids in college. that's not going to happen
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anymore. when you hear people talk about repeal, and first of all, repeel with no plan to replace it, i mean, the only thing coming from the other side is, just get rid of this whole thing. there's no plan to replace it. so i think what we owe the american people is when we talk about repealing a law, especially something as important and big as this, i think it's a very fair and necessary question to ask, what are you going to replace it with? are we going to go back to the old system where that cancer patient lying in the hospital bed now is going to hit a lifetime cap with the insurance company? so they're going to be told that they either have to leave the hospital or they're going to get stuck with $250,000 worth of bills and they've got to sell their house because they can't afford it anymore? when you hear the word repeal you should understand that that's what's at stake. that's what we would go back to. the old system. and until -- until folks come up
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with an alternative and in four years there's been no alternative and really there's no reason to think that over the next four years there's going to be one, unless you come with an -- with an alternative we're talking about going back to that time. but the thing i wanted to mention and something that's often overlooked here is that part of the affordable care act, another benefit of it, is that mental health care coverage is vastly expanded because of the affordable care act. that's extremely important. millions of families in this country, individuals and families, have suffered with either themselveses or their family members who suffer from serious depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, other mental health afflictions that quite frankly in america, many ore countries in the world, for the longest time we never took mental health issues as seriously as we've taken
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physical health issues. so you know, for a long time, people would tell you, oh, you know, you're depressed, you just need to, you know, snap out of it. or they treated things like bipolar disorder very lightly. they thought somebody had a bad attitude system of in texas, in 2011, i and others worked on getting serious emotional disturbances from young people, within young people, covered by insurance companies in texas. and you know in texas, democrats are in a deep minority in texas, the whole time i was there for five terms we were in a deep minority. so you'd have republican controlled legislature. my bill went nowhere. it didn't go anywhere. it died. so serious emotional disturbances weren't covered. but under the affordable care act, things like that will be. the reason that was important is because families were coming to
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me in my district office, there's one family in particular that came to me and said, we're scared of our son. our son is a teenager and he's gotten violent before and so we called the cops, the cops take him to the hospital, there's nowhere to keep him for any kind of long-care treatment because by the way the state provides inadequate resources for mental health care coverage, they can't put him in jail unless he's really assaulted somebody, and so there's just this cycle where we're having this issue with our son and we're scared to be in the same house with him. we can't really do anything. and the law offers us no relief. one of the benefits of the affordable care act is that serious emotional disturbances and many other mental health issues will now be taken more seriously and more -- and they will be more covered by health care companies than they have ever been in the history of the united states.
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and that hasn't been a big focus because a lot of this has been about politics and a lot of the milestones and quite frankly the celebrations about more than seven million people signing up, that's been the big focus of this whole thing. but we shouldn't overlook some of the thing this is a haven't gotten as much attention. for me, as somebody that worked on mental health legislation in texas, and i know many other people, republicans and democrats, have worked on things line that, to the families -- like that, to the families dealing with situations like that, that's a big deal that means a lot to them. and that is helping them out. so as meshes, when you hear -- as americans, when you hear folks talk about repealing this law, i hope that we all fully understand exactly what we would be going back to. and those legislators who propose repealing it are irresponsible if they don't provide the american people a
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full alternative and explanation for what that alternative would do for them and what it would cost for the country. you know what the affordable care act is about. we've seen no plan on the other side. and so as i close, i'd like to say thank you to all the members of congress from different places in the nation who joined me today in talking about this milestone for the affordable care act. i am very personally glad that over seven million people have now signed up and are benefiting millions more through medicaid expansion, college students, all these people who won't be kicked off insurance because they hit lifetime caps or somebody that tries to get insurance and the insurance company sends them a letter back and says, we can't ensure -- insure you because off pre-existing condition or your doctor sub mies a bill to the insurance company as it used to be and the insurance company writes back and says, well you know what, we're not going to cover that $3,000 bill because you had a pre-existing
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condition. that's what repeal would be about. going backward. so with that, mr. speaker, i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair lays before the house n enrolled bill. the clerk: senate 2183. an act for the united states international programming to ukraine and neighboring regions. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. kelly, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. kelly: i thank the speaker. being able to stand here today with my colleague from pennsylvania, mr. moreno, mr. wenstrup from ohio behind me, in order to talk about the state of our country and of our congress, you know, as we came here three years ago, one of the things we came here, we were on a mission.
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we were on a mission to get america back to work. we've watched now over the last three years and some of the criticism that comes about all the time is, you know you guys just aren't getting anything done. i hear people talk about being a do-nothing congress about not pushing the agenda forward, about us not being able to get america back to work. today, many mo -- mr. moreno and i and our colleagues will be here in the position of myth buster. this myth that there's a house of representatives. i think the key to this is there's two chambers to this congress. there's the house of representatives and the senate. in the house of representatives we have done incredible work over the last three years. we're talking about 220 house-passed bills stuck in the do informing -- do-nothing senate. of those 220 bills, 30-plus are about job creation, they're about getting america back to work, they're about giving people confidence in the future that they can look forward and begin to plan their laves. -- their lives.
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now we can't do it alone. while we get criticism from the administration and as we look down the hall to the senate, we start to wonder, what would it take to get america engaged in this process? what would it take to get the american sit zepps aware of what's actually going on in the capital? -- in the capitol? why is it that we're stuck here? why can't we move forward? so today's exercise, the next 60 minute, myself and mr. moreno and our other colleagues will have an opportunity to speak to the people of the united states, to make sure we explode this myth that this is a do-nothing congress. no, no, no. this is not a do-nothing congress. this is a congress that's worked very hard. this is a congress that's done monumental work to get our fellow americans back to work. the problem is, when you walk it down the halls and into the senate it gets lost. it gets tabled. it doesn't get amended, it doesn't get discussed, it doesn't get debated. in fact, it doesn't do anything.
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it just collects dust. so i welcome this opportunity to speak not just to this house but also to the people of america and at this time i'd like my colleague and my good friend, mr. moreno from pennsylvania, to also weigh in on this. mr. moreno: thank you, congressman kelly. appreciate this. it's an honor to be here with you and it's an honor to be setting the record straight. i hear my colleagues, i spent a couple of minute here's listening to my colleagues about what we are not doing and what they are doing. the facts and figures they're throwing out are coming from the white house. they change on a regular basis. mr. marino: will get into that stuff a little more. i want to hold up something and show it to the american people and then talk a little bit on it about what we have done in the house of representatives. what the republicans have done in the house of representatives
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for the 113th congress. that's just last year and this year. that's not including the legislation we passed in the 112th congress. from 2011 to 2012. i am holding in my hand here the names, the numbers, the dates, and the details of 220 bills that the house passed. 220 bills. some of it was with support from the democrats, a handful of democrats. who saw that this is good legislation. it will create jobs. it keeps taxes low. it gives -- it does away with job-crushing regulations. it lets private sector do what it does best. it allows the hardworking taxpayer, the hardworking taxpayer to have a level playing field. i'm going to recite some bills,
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i'm not going to go over all 220 bills that are setting on -- sitting on democrat senate leader harry reid's desk that he refuses to bring to the floor far vote. i ask the democrat leader, senator reid, what are you afraid of? why do you not bring these bills to the floor for a vote so the american people can see the legislation and how their senators vote for it. they can see it right here in the house, they can go to our website they can go to the congressional website, they can see how we voted on legislation. i think it is despicable that one person in congress can hold up 220 pieces of legislation and hide it from the american people. and you know why he does it? politics.
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there's an election coming up this year. he doesn't want his democrat senators to have a voting record. that is why we are here. we're supposed to have a voting record. we're supposed to represent the american people. some of the legislation concerns energy, offshore energy and jobs ct, h.r. 2231. northern route approval h.r. 3. hydropower regulation, energy consumer relief, coal residual rescue, federal lands. energy and water appropriations. department of defense appropriations. homeland security appropriations. preserving requirements for welfare programs. skills act. student success act. the rapid act which does away with regulations and time that
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prevents businesses from creating jobs. and who creates the jobs the best? the private industry. look, the federal government has a rough time keeping amtrak on time and they're always way over budget and we're going to trust them with health care? we're going to trust the federal jobs ment with creating when entrepreneurs are the best people, women and men, to do that? any time you want to see what legislation is on mr. reid's desk, you squft go to the site and -- web you just go to the congressional website and see what was passed. i was a prosecutor for 18 years. i started working in a wholesale back i -- bakery at 17. i worked in that bakery until i was 33. the owner died. a new company came in. they overlooked me for a promotion because i didn't have cleage degree.
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-- college degree. but they want med to train the guy with the college degree coming in -- wanted me to train the guy with the college degree coming in. i went to my wife and said i wanted to go to law school. we got through college and law school. but i know what it's like to work in a factory 60 and 65 hours a week. i know what it's like to stretch a paycheck. my wife knows what it's like to stretch a dollar from here to next year. and i also know what it's like in the criminal justice system. as a prosecutor for 18 years, i've seen it, i've seen it all. i've seen the worst sides of life that i've ever seen. but you know what i have passion for? the children. and our children's fewer you to now is dismal. -- future now is dismal. my father gave me a better life than he had. i'm not sure i can do that for my children. they're now looking at over $50,000 of debt, each of them. so that means that every $1 that they earn, over 50% of it,
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if we ever get to the point of paying the debt down, is going to our debt. so with that i'm going to yield back the balance of my time and let my colleague talk about a couple of issues and i'll be back shortly. mr. kelly: i thank the gentleman. at this time i recognize a new member from the state of ohio, brad wenstrup is with us today. he's done remarkable work since he got here in just a little over a year. thank you for being with us today. please. mr. owens: thank you very much. i appreciate that -- mr. wenstrup: thank you very much. i appreciate that, mr. kelly. mr. speaker, we have a problem. we have an inactive senate, with harry reid at the helm as the majority leader. someone on the senate side seems to have hit the pause button and it's been stuck there for a while. and we're having to deal with that. but here in the house of representatives, the people's house, we passed over 00 bills since i came -- 200 bills that since i came to congress that eem to just be gathering dust.
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we've taken up important energy, education, health care reforms, numerous jobs bills. some republican bills, some democratic bills, and most passed with bipartisan support. yet senate majority harry reid has thrown them on the ground. nd ohioans ask me what we're doing here in washington, d.c. and i'm at which the's end trying to explain that every reform-minded bill that i've supported, that we've passed on behalf of the american people, is stuck in the senate. it's a legislative purgatory. it just sits. and i don't wish that on my fellow ohioans or fellow americans. i'm not asking the senate to agree with every bill that we pass, mr. speaker. but at least allow a vote. and at least allow a discuss. one -- discussion. one example is keystone x.l. pipeline. the energy security legislation passed the house with bipartisan support nearly a year ago.
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241 members of congress voted for the northern route approval act. more than that, a filibuster proved a majority of senators, republicans and democrats, are on the record of supporting this project. a recent "washington post"-abc poll demonstrates that the american people also support the goals of this legislation, building the pipeline by nearly a 3-1 margin. but the senate has thrown the bill on the floor, locking -- blocking any vote. does the senate have a solution? not really. they just seem to want to stand in the way. another example is the skills act. you know, i hear from ohioans frustrated that washington isn't working, especially in year six of this obama economy. with disappointing job growth. and as we continue to face unacceptable unemployment levels, the senate refuses to take commonsense steps to get americans back to work. over a year ago i was proud to support the skills act,
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legislation that would have helped job seekers, help employers, reform government and cut bureaucratic costs so more money can go directly to help people getting back to work. this legislation offers long-term solutions to help those looking for work, combined with smart government reforms. what do we hear from senate leadership? nothing. it's bipartisan frustration i think on some parts because these aren't just republican bills that are being blocked. nearly three dozen democrat-sponsored bills have passed the house of representatives with overwhelming support from both sides of the aisle. no action in the senate. these are noncontroversial bills. but some in the senate are more concerned with demonizing individual americans than helping every american. the legislative branch is the most direct representation of the american people. yet the senate leader is content to hand over his constitutional responsibilities
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to president obama and the executive branch rather than do his job and to legislate. it's a myth that this is a do-nothing congress. but we are witnessing a do-nothing senate. i ask senate majority leader harry reid, relieve this lenl legislative -- this legislative backlog, hundreds of bills and millions of americans are waiting. you know, here in the house we have taken action. we are active. we have taken the vote. and we have taken the action as far as we can take it. and america waits for a further response. most of these bills that we've passed usually involve having less government involvement, not more. not more involvement. and the table is set. our founders set it up in such a way that we're to represent the people and we're to act and the senate is to act and we're all spoiced to come together at the table -- supposed to come together at the table. i've been here just over a year and i've been waiting at that table, i've been waiting for
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the senate to engage with us, i've been waiting for the president tone gauge with us. but -- to engage with us. but that hasn't happened. i left a medical practice to serve here. and i'm proud and honored to -- honored to be here. people often often ask me, what's the difference between being a doctor and being here? as a doctor i can make a diagnosis and i can get together with the patient and their family and provide a treatment. and together we go to work on that. and it takes both of us to do that. but sometimes when you make a suggestion of a treatment, you even suggest that there be a second opinion. i can tell you right now, on all of these things that we've passed, all these treatments that we've recommended, we're still waiting for our second opinion from the senate. the house is active. we're waiting for the senate to take up the arm and do their job as well. and with that i yield back to you, mr. kelly.
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thank you very much. mr. kelly: i thank you, mr. wenstrup. also, mr. marino and i were just talking for a second, mama are inow had touched on something that -- mr. marino had suched -- touched on something that just happened recently, activity and inactivity on the senate floor. there was a night not too long ago where the senate talked all night long. i think mr. marino wants to just touch on that right now. mr. marino: if were were -- if this were not nauseating, it would be hilarious. there are millions of people out of work, mr. speaker, millions of people who are losing their heament care and millions more whose health care is increasing. there are 230 piece of -- pieces of legislation sitting on harry reid's desk. and you know what they debated a couple of weeks ago all night on the floor? nothing to do with jobs, nothing to do with deregulation, nothing with getting out of the way of the hardworking taxpayers and businesses.
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they debated climate change all night on the floor. now, there's no one that is more than a conservationist than myself. i live out in the country, i love seeing the bear and the deer walk across my property. i get my water from a well. my children have grown up there. i will do everything i can to protect my children, make sure that the air they're breathe is clean, the water is clean. the land is pristine. but you know something? i'm pretty sure the hardworking taxpayers, people in this country, the farmers in my district, the entrepreneurs in my district want to see the government get out of the way and let entrepreneurs and business do what it does. i'm a states' rights guy. i believe the less federal government in my life the better. and that's proven by -- i just met with a group of entrepreneurs a little earlier, they're called startups. they're young kids, they're
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geniuses who know the i.t. industry, create apps, create hardware, create software and they're saying to me, congressman, our hands are tied, we're being overregulated and we have a lot of good ideas that will help the american people. you're going to be hearing some figures quoted. i'm not a big figure guy. but i think it's important that you listen to these figures and see these figures. but i want to tell you where i got them. because as a prosecutor i always had to back up in court where i got my evidence and cite it. so you've all heard of the congressional budget office. we refer to it as the c.b.o. and i'm going to tell you just in two sentences what the congressional budget office does. the congressional budget office , c.b.o., is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the united states government
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that provides economic data to congress. the c.b.o. was created as a nonpartisan agency by the congressional budget and improvement control act of 1974. which means they're independent. they're not republican, they're not democrat. these are people who crunch numbers, make estimates, bring us information and then submit it to us so the american people know what the actual facts are. so with that i'm going to yield back my time to congressman kelly. mr. kelly: hawaii, -- thank you, mama are inow. we all have the similar experiences, i know you do, brad, when you're back home, and, tom, i know you do when you're back home. it doesn't matter where we are. a lot of times it's coming out of mass on sunday morning and sometimes it's just being down at the k-mart or wal-mart or maybe i'm up in erie. i could be in grove city or other places and people come up
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to me and say, you know, what you all need to get busy. and they talk about, we don't want to hear anymore about the battles between republicans and democrats. quite frankly, we're tired of hearing it. because if you can't work together, you can't get things done. and then the quep can -- question comes up, can't you just compromise once in a while to get something done? and then i hear, you've got to scratch your head and say, we're doing an awful lot right now, but you're just not hearing it. and then the reason that that comes about, and we all know this, is because the biggest megaphone in the country right now is at the white house. now, you and i sat here during the state of the union. the president made a very chilling statement. he said, america can't wait and i can't wait. and if this congress won't act the way i want it to do, i will go around them and i will get it done. half of the side of the house stood up and cheered that. cheered up their for fiture of their duty, of the oath they
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took when they came into office. now, i stand here today as a representative of pennsylvania's third district. that does not mean that i only represent republicans that live in the third district of pennsylvania. that does not mean that i'm only concerned with the concerns of republicans in the third district of pennsylvania. that does not mean that i represent anything else than every single person, every citizen that resides within that district. so the things we're talking about today are not republican issues, they're not democrat issues. these are american issues. we are talking about american jobs. we are talking about getting back to work. we are talking about coming here, taking an oath of office and then fulfilling that oath to the people who sent us. i know that you go through the staple thing. i have many people that approach me and say, you know what, mike, i didn't vote for you and i say, i didn't know that until right now but i'll forget about it, believe me, but this is an issue i have and these are things that concern me and i want to know, where are you all going and what is
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that can you're trying to do and why can't you get american back -- america back to work? because you said when you ran for office, we've got to get this nation back on track. we've got to get america moving in the right direction. we've got to get america being america again. and we know that oftentimes in our life we look at all the problems that we have and the answer to everything right now, these things need fixed. now, how do you do that? you can only do it with a very dynamic and robust economy. so when i hear the conversation that takes place either in our chamber or the senate chamber and you start to say to yourself, you know what, that's nice to have that conversation, it's nice to have that little talk, it's nice to have that debate, but you know what, you haven't created any jobs. because without a dynamic and robust economy, it is all just idle chadder. it is just politicians getting up -- chatter. it is all just politicians getting up and speaking and hoping that they hit a cord with some constituent somewhere that says, boy, she's speaking for me or he's speaking for me
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and i've got to tell you, folks, we speak for everybody. not just the towns we come from or the townships we come from or the counties we come from or the states we come from, but this entire country. so when we look at what's going on now, and people ask me, yeah, you say that's going on, but there's no proof. here's what i'd ask our friends to do. because the president says this all the time. he says, you know what? pick up your phone or pick up your pen and that's what i'm going to do and i'm going to get things done. i'm going to use my executive powers which are vast and enormous to do what i want to do, despite what congress may say, despite especially what those characters in the house of representatives are pushing down your throat, because that's just not what i want you to hear. my message to the american people, you all have phones and you all have pence and you all have the -- pens and you all have the ability to speak out on anything, anytime, anywhere you want.
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no place else in the world can we do that. and as an example today, as my colleagues and i are doing, because as i said earlier, it is time to do some myth busting. it is time to call a halt to this idle chatter about what america really needs. we know what america really needs. america needs to get back to work, and this congress needs to get out of the job creators' way. neat -- need to get the regulatory boot off. and we need to let them look to the future with certainty and know you can go ahead and plan, you can go ahead and make a strategy, you can go ahead and look to the future with a degree of success waiting for you. now, opportunity is there for everybody. there's equal opportunity, there's no question about that. we know there's no equal outcome. my goodness, that's just not the case. but we do know that hardworking americans throughout our history have done things that are absolutely incredible, and
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they have done it because of a government that let's people be free, gives them liberty to go on and do what they need to do and when they want to do it in the ways they want to do it. there's no place else in the world, so the question that comes down to is, why now, why now have we hit such a logjam, why can't we get along to get america back to work? and the answer is quite simple. mr. marino talked about it. mr. wenstrup talked about it. my goodness, there is is' another election coming. if -- there's another election coming. we can never get anything down because there's elections every year. now, if mr. reid can say to his people in the senate and if he can look to this country and go on tv and tell people, these things you're hearing about the health care law are all lies, these things that have been coninjured up by people who don't really exist, the stories
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that they're spreading are lies, there's not a shred of evidence that would support what they've said. now, he stands in front of the american people and says you are all liars and that we're not going to tolerate that type of behavior and then he goes behind his desk at the senate and he says, all of those pieces of legislation, those 220 house-passed bills put on a table because we're not going to talk about it. we're not going to debate them. we're not going to amend them. and you know why we're not? because there's an election coming. there's a third of the senate members that are up for re-election. a third and a third. a third of the senate is re-elected or new senators come in. he has placed the re-election above the redirection of this country. the re-election of his senate is more important to him than the redirection of this
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country. that is absolutely unfore give. so i would just -- unforgiveable. so i would just so my friends, not so much to the house of representatives or the senate because we're pretty much ignored but let me just say this. listening to are his, go to www.speaker.gov/jobs. www.speaker.gov/jobs. u can also go to majorityleader.gov/bill -- tracker. majority leader.gov/bill -tracker. what will these two sites give you? they'll give you everything we're talking about. it's all there. it's all there. you don't have to send away for a book. you don't have to do anything
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except go online and pick up this information. you can sit at home and see what it is that this house has passed, this house of representatives, and then you, too, can sit as myself, mr. marino do every day and say, with a is it we're waiting for and the answer is leadership. quite simply it's leadership. america right now is hunting for champions. they're hunting for people who will rise up and take control of the situation and this idea that somehow some where some night in shining armor has to ride to get us there is baloney. because every election that comes out of your hometowns, that comes right out of your churches and comes right out of the folks you work with every day and have grown up with and lived life with, that's who's here. that's who's here. it's so unique. only place in the world that can do it. i tell you because of the social media, you can go as an individual in your home, you don't have to get in your car
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and drive anywhere and not waste any gas and time and don't have to worry about sitting in traffic. sit at home and go to those two sites. www depp speaker.gov/jobs or go site and you did talk about the keystone pipeline and we asked ourselves all the time, what's the holdup on the keystone pipeline? one person. one person. if you don't know where this person is, let me give you a clue. he lives in a white house at 1,600 pennsylvania avenue. this is not a -- at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this is not a lie. pick up the line and say, mr. president, let's get back to work. mr. president, let's get america energy independent. mr. president, let's quit worrying about the next election and get this country going in the right direction. we can do it as a people. we must do it. it's not just a responsibility, it is our obligation, not just
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to the future but to all those in the past. i'll just tell you, my friends, there's just so much going on right now. and i'd really like my two colleagues, why don't we all -- let's all join and we can have a colloquy right now between the three of us and take care and talk back and forth because i think it's important for the people of america to understand that the house is alive. >> if the gentleman will yield for just a moment. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded not to engage in penalties toward senators and are further reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentleman may proceed. mr. kelly: mr. wenstrup. mr. wenstrup: and you mentioned the affordable care act and you mentioned phone and a pen, and i would encourage all americans to use your phone and to use your pen to let the other parts of our government know where you stand and know you do want to see some action taken place. we are a nation of laws and we should live by a rule of law.
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and it's very difficult for the american people to understand when certain laws are passed and then signed by the president and then just changed as though it's a menu you can just select which laws you can -- you want to enforce. and that makes it very difficult for the american people to understand, and it makes our job more difficult too as we go ahead and pass laws. while we're talking about some of the things that we have done here in the house, both in the 112th and 113th congress, we passed the raines act. for those -- reins act. for those not familiar with the reins act, it brings more power back into congress and into those that represent you. it gives you a voice. we have established over the years many agencies where we've empowered those agencies and we've empowered the people within the agencies to make decisions and often it's punitive regulatory decisions that they're making. and so this makes it very difficult for our businesses.
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but what the reins act does is it says that if a regulation impact ative economic over $100 million, then it has to be approved by congress. that gives you, the people, a chance to reach out to your representative and let them know how you feel about these regulations rather than just having a bureaucracy deciding that this is what's going to take place. as i said, i think over the years this body has given up some of that power to these agencies and that takes it away from the american people. we want to get that back. now, we talk about if it's over $100 million, negative economic impact, well, i tell you i rarely see a regulation that has a positive economic impact in america. and so this is an opportunity for us to get that back. again, it's something we passed in the last two congresses here in the house of representatives has not been taken up in the senate. i yield back, mr. kelly. mr. kelly: i thank the gentleman.
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right now i'd like to recognize a good friend and colleague from colorado, mr. lamborn. mr. lamborn: i want to thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for his leadership on this and many other issues, and i thank you for putting this time together. when anyone says it's a do-nothing congress, they are only half right. it's actually a do-nothing senate. in this congress, the house has passed and sent over to the senate 311 total bills, and we've talked about the 220 jobs-related bills. 311 total bills. in stark contrast, the senate has sent to the house only 67 bills. the senate produces just about 1/3 of what the house does. 1/3 of the work, mr. speaker. i'm not saying that passing -- s in and of itself is an good. the patient protection and affordable care act, or obamacare, is a primary example of that. but it's one way to measure how hard you're working. from the house natural
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resources committee i sit on, we have passed six bills opening up american energy that would create over one million new jobs, lower gasoline and electricity prices, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and help lower our national debt by generating over $1 billion in new revenue. these bills are now stalled in the senate. the u.s. senate has turned into a productivity graveyard. president obama has signed only 24 senate bills into law during this congress. in contrast, 91 bills from the house had been signed by the president into law. these are total bills of all different subjects. senate democrats' sole concern seems to be protecting themselves from taking votes, recorded votes, that might anger their liberal donors or their voters. they do this by closing off debate, eliminating amendments and writing their bills in secret, shutting out republican voices and input. this broken and dysfunctional
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democrat senate has produced many disasters for the american people and not just obamacare. they also passed the trillion-dollar so-called stimulus act, refused for four years to pass a budget and allowed the president to about a loan the national debt -- balloon the national debt from $12 trillion to $17 trillion. don't let harry reid fool you with false narratives that those rascally republicans are holding up the nation's business. this is just another gimmick to shift the blame over from where it really lies. our country deserves better. bills that would grow our economy and put millions of our friends and neighbors back to work should never die in the depths of the democrat senate. it is critical for every single american to let senate democrats know that they're sick and tired of the do-nothing senate.
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thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back to the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. kelly: thank you, mr. lamborn. if i could inquire how much time is left, sir. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 25 minutes remaining. mr. kelly: 5 minutes? the speaker pro tempore: yes. mr. kelly: mr. marino -- mr. kelly: 25 minutes? the speaker pro tempore: yes. mr. kelly: mr. marino. mr. marino: i heard my colleagues on the other side of he aisle talk about obamacare. instead, republicans tried to repeal it over 40 times. that's true. we tried to fix it with no help from the other side but he said twice we didn't have anything to offer. again, that statement is not correct. 3121, the r.s.c. american health care reform act. it repeals obamacare. it puts together a health care
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rogram that physicians and ospital administrators suggesting what we need in a health care program. let's back up. h.r. 3121. we did do something. now, we need to talk a little bit about some issues concerning what my colleagues have said with regard to obamacare. and i just recently heard and verified this by my staff that the house minority leader, nancy pelosi, said tuesday that the founding fathers -- we're lking about franklin, adams, jefferson, washington -- the founding fathers would be pleased with obamacare because if it means that americans can pursue happiness without being stuck with a job just to have
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health care, end quote. now, this is the same person that says we have to pass it so we know what is in it. well, we all know what is in it and we all know what is not in it. now, i want to make a point clearer. congressman kelly, myself, this s our second term and we new members of the house, we have a different approach to things. . $18 trillion of debt we're in, this didn't happen over the last couple of years but the last 50 years. and i often say to my constituents if i had every living presidents in a group of my constituents, mr. speaker, and every leader, i would say to them, how dare you do this to us, how dare you republicans and democrats put us into this debt.
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and the republicans have some opportunities when they had control of the house and the senate a decade or so ago. but times are changing. there's a new breed here. and i just want to bring some issues to your attention concerning obamacare that the american people need to know about. when obamacare was first implemented, first told about what's going to happen, it was supposed to cover 60 million people. and again, go to www. congressionalbudgetoffice web site and cost of $1990 billion and change over a 10-year period. you can keep your doctor and health care program. if you didn't want to participate, you didn't have to. and it wasn't going to cost you one penny more. well, the congressional budget office just released new figures.
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and they simply put it this way. instead of covering 60 million people, maybe, maybe obamacare will cover 29 million people. excuse me, 24 million people. and instead of costing $900 billion, it is now closer to $2 trillion. and oh, by the way, were you able to keep your insurance that you had prior to obamacare? no. president said you could, but can't. were you able to keep your physicians? many instances, no. how many of your rates stayed the same? we're talking about millions of people, millions and millions of people who lost insurance because of obamacare. and millions more whose insurance rates went up
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significantly. waived more than 30 provisions of his law in order to try and make it work, number one. despite his promise that everyone who likes the plan can keep it, between 4 and 7 million americans have had their health care plans canceled. approximately 7.5 million seniors will be forced from medicare advantage health care plan of choice in 2014. others will see more than $3,700 in services cut. obamacare imposes 21 different, 21 different taxes on americans and businesses and an additional cost of more than $1 trillion to the americans and to the economy.
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the workforce will shrink. my colleagues said the workforce would not shrink. .cbo.gov. to www no a good sign for the four million americans who have been unemployed for over six months. 11 million small business employees will see premiums rise under obamacare. and medicaid, program that already has reimbursement rates below medicare and one of which one in three doctors will not accept new new patients. 34 million americans are childless adults. this, ladies and gentlemen, mr. speaker, this does not work. and we have to fix it. we have offered a way to fix it.
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but the president says there's nothing wrong with it. and with that, i yield back to my zpwished colleague, mr. kelly -- distinguished colleague. mr. kelly: thank you. it's time for us to take a look at the world and our place in the world. we know we have been hurt lately because america has decided to follow something called leading from behind. i don't know what that could possibly be mean. i hear about the next great emerging economy and you sit back and say, who could it be. let me tell you who it is. it's us, the u.s. why do i say that? because right now, we are uniquely positioned in history at this moment in time to be the greatest economy the world has ever seen. why? because we have been blessed by our creator with abundant, accessible and affordable fossil
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fuels. these can be extracted safely and that creates thousands of jobs. this can lower our cost per energy unit far below any place in the world and allows us to let our wages rise because our cost of producing goes down. what else we have, if you look just to the north of the district i serve, the great lake system is there. lake erie is there and 1/5 of the world's fresh water. also, if you were to look at our land, our tillable soil, the production per acre that our people in agriculture are able to achieve. so i would ask you at this point in time, at this point in history, if we know what to do is to have a robust and dynamic economy, what would be holding us back? not our cost of energy because we are blessed with energy
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everywhere. through new technology we are able to extract it. we are able to heat and cool our homes, run our factories and light our streets at night, to do almost anything we want to do at a rate that is lower than any place in the world. we don't have to rely on anybody else on this globe other than ourselves. we can be energy independent. we have drinking water that the rest of the world would love to have. and we have the ability to produce. as you know, mr. speaker, where you come in california, the ability to produce food for a population that doesn't need to go starving and look to the rest of the world for help because we can create it right here, right now, for every single american. the question becomes then, why are we -- why are we where we're at now. why do we have the lowest participation rate.
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when you look at the assets and everything we have and the opportunities we have, when you can look at everything, being there and being within our grasp without too far of a reach to get there, the question becomes what's holding us up? what is holding us back? what is keeping us from achieving that destiny that we have been granted by the lord? what is keeping us from that? look, i would just say this, while there are millions of americans that are out of work, all you have to do is go out of this chamber and go down the hall and i can show you a lot of americans that have a job a and that aren't working. the senate continues to sit on all these jobs bills and legislation that would get america back to work. i'm sick and tired hearing that, well, if the house would just do something. i will tell you something, i would suggest this, the president would wear out his fingers on that phone calling harry reid.
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his left arm would probably go numb by signing all the legislation that is on his desk right now. what's the roadblock and keeping us from that pathway to prosperity? it is a do-nothing senate. it's a senate that sits back and calls the american people liars and distorts the facts and puts out every day myths about a house of representatives not working, it's a senate that had to go under the gun to pass a budget and say you know what? here's the deal, you don't pass the budget, we don't pay me. are you kidding me? you have to threaten them that you are going to cut their pay if you don't pass a budget. good lord. i would like to see us do that in our schools, homes and factories and our businesses in the private sector. when we have to pass a bill to make them pass a budget. is that where we have reached? is that how low we've become? it is a great honor and
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privilege to serve in this house. it is a great honor to come before the people and to go home and say we're working hard for you, we're going to do the best we can do. you know what? it requires a little help. it requires a little help. and this system, this system, where there are's two chambers and requiring us to get things. 220 bills have passed sitting in a do-nothing senate and requires some teamwork now and requires us to be the united states not the divided states of america and work for people and not for a political party and work on an agenda to put america back to work and not worry about the next election and worry about the direction this country needs to go in. it's a responsibility to take all the assets the lord has given us and we have to become the next emerging economy, one
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that will be heralded all over the world one that everyone is scratching saying, you have everything. what is it you are waiting for? the answer again is leadership. that leadership has got to take place and take place soon. we will continue to do our job in the house of representatives. we will continue to push bills forward and continue to debate and amend bills and pass bills and we will walk them down the hall to the senate. but after that, the senate has to pick these bills up, has to debate them, amend them and vote on them and send them down to the white house for the president's final signature. if we are going to get america back to work, let's get to work. our colleagues in the house have done their job. i'm going to yell it down the hallway as we walk out of here tonight, hey, you need to get to work because america is waiting for you to lead and the phones should be ringing off the hook in mr. reid's office and 1600
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pennsylvania avenue as america says it's time to get the job done and time to walk the walk and do what we know we can do and take advantage of every single asset the lord has provided us. i would say, thank you for allowing us to be here. mr. marineo always a pleasure. we will continue to fight those fights. and mr. wenstrup is gone and mr. lamborn is gone but good to have colleagues to join us. if there is no one that sits in this house of representatives that doesn't want to see america do well, it's time to get back to work. how much time do we have left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 11 minutes. mr. kelly: would you like to finish up then? i'm going to recognize mr. marineo. mr. marino: mr. speaker, i would like to hit on two areas here for a moment and ask the
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american people to get more involved. to call your representatives, to call your senators, demand from them that we get legislation passed through both houses or at least the legislation that's brought to the floor for a vote. the american people deserve that. you know, as i said earlier, i'm a states' rights guy, constitutionalist and worked in a factory, worked in industry, put myself through college and law school. and my father gave me a good life. firefighter, janitor and painter, whatever else he could do to put a roof over our house and feed us. he said if you are going to say something to someone, look in their eye and speak the truth, don't make it personal and base
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it on facts and you support those facts. i'm a true believer that americans over the last decade or two, even more so today, have been asked to do more with less. budgets are tight. some are laid off, some are completely out of jobs. working one, two and three part-time jobs and we have the technology out there to create better jobs. but also the american people should demand that government operates the same way. i'm a believer that the federal government is much too large. the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. it needs to be downsized by at least a third. those of us still here, demands that we do more, do more with less. just like industry does and we do at home. the government should operate under that basis. 'm going to switch back to
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obamacare for a moment. "forbes" magazine in an article of 2/22/14 said obamacare will cost 9.2 million jobs or more a year. i have more health care people, physicians, hospitals, constituents constantly calling saying what am i go go to do? i dant get insurance or i cannot afford this insurance. we have put a proposal together, republicans, and we would like to see that voted on and get over to the senate. i met so many bright people out of college that cannot get a job. they're very talented, they're smart individuals, but there s a feature issue put out by sea change, s-a-e change and
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there was a poll. policy feature issues. obamacare and youth. why millennials, young people, particularly young people out of college who can't find work, have a right to be concerned. i am going to quote here. a recent poll by millennials found that today only 41% of millennials approve of the president's performance. down 11 points since harvard's last survey in april. i am going to go further. with respect to obamacare, young americans are even more suspicious, more than half of the polls -- poll's responders believe that the health care costs will increase under obamacare with 44% indicating that they believe the quality of care will decline. moreover, almost 2/3 of the respondents say they do not plan to enroll in obamacare, which, if accurate, would be extremely problematic for the
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future of viability of the federal exchange. the white house just released -- i heard on the floor today it was almost seven million and it was seven million and then over seven million. well, again, the white house has not been consistent with its numbers and hasn't, i believe, given all the information. i read an article here where it says that even though they're touting that six million, seven million, whatever figure they come up with, got on the website and signed up, you know, there's a big difference there, folks. mr. speaker, there's a difference between signing up and paying. and this article stated that most of those individuals that signed up did not pay and they project that those individuals will not pay. and that's what this obamacare health care plan was relying on. young people who are in good health today to pay.
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and they're saying, i'm in good health. why should i bail others out? now, let me make this perfectly clear. i believe that everyone should have health care. my daughter has cystic fibrosis, a disease which has no cure. the hoops that my wife had to jump through and still jumping through to cover our daughter is extraordinary. and if those -- there are people out there that cannot afford health care. we as americans, we have to help them. we have to pay for them. we have to give them health care. that's what america is about. that's what americans do. we help people. we try to improve the quality of life. o i'm asking, mr. speaker, that the american people get more involved in the political system. be aware of what's out there. they listen to hear what's
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going on. check my facts. follow up. just don't take what you hear as the actual fact and actual truth. back it up and ask your elected officials, where did you get that information? on which did you base it? 's about time my congressman -- colleague, congressman kelly said, we level the playing field. we take the handcuffs and restraints off of hardworking taxpayers so they can give their children and grandchildren a better way of life. i know we can do that in this country. we are the greatest country in the world. i'm a member of the foreign affairs committee and i'm a member of the nato alliance and i talk to 27 other country -- people who represent countries how great america is and how they look to us and what we can do. even the countries that do not like us look to america for leadership, look to america for a better way of life, not only
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here in the u.s. but around the world. and i have to tell you every time i drive from pennsylvania, willamsport, pennsylvania, 10th congressional district there after a week of listening to my constituents and seeing what they go through, my farmers, business people, homemakers, single moms, men that can't find jobs, women that have to work two and three part-time jobs to raise their family, we have a responsibility. as i turn on independence and i see the dome of this beautiful building, i can't believe i am fortunate enough to be here, to represent not only my 10th congressional district in pennsylvania but all of america. but it's a responsibility that i chose. it's a responsibility that i have to continue to fight every day of my life. i heard one of my colleagues his - and i'm going to use line and ad lib a little bit. he'll talk to a group and take
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his glasses off. you see this wrinkle here. this was caused by fighting to keep your taxes low. and you see this wrinkle here. this was caused by making sure that the american people know what we're voting on. and this line here -- this was caused to make sure there's a level playing field. and there's still room on my face for more lines and more wrinkles to keep fighting. well, that's what i'm going to do, that's what we all should be doing here in the house is keep fighting for the american people so down the road i want someone to say to my children, you know something, when your father was a member of congress, he did the right thing for the american people and for his constituents. and with that, mr. speaker, i ield back. mr. kelly: mr. speaker, i think our time is pretty close to the end, am i right? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has two minutes. mr. kelly: i want to thank mr.
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marino for being here, mr. lamborn, mr. wenstrup. we often share these moments many times. we have a responsibility, and not just a responsibility but an obligation not to -- just ourselves and the current generation but those that came before us, the 1.6 million people in uniform, men and women in uniform who gave their lives so we can have this moment today. and into the future to guarantee to them we made a conscious decision to make sure that their future would be as secure as the one we were given. having said that, mr. speaker, i now yield back and thank you for your indulgence. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr.
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speaker. and i want to thank my friends, mr. speaker, both from pennsylvania, for the superb comments. they are so right on everything they said. and following up those comments, article today from "the washington free beacon," employers say obamacare will cost them $5,000 more per employee. how much more can businesses absorb? and then we find out also this week, of course -- well, actually in the last month we've been finding out more roups that are getting money from a health care program, informally called obamacare, because it's so hard to call it affordable when it's not, but groups that are getting money from the federal government that sounds like are using it more as an opportunity to
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register voters as democrats when that money could be used o get a pacemaker or get a mamogram or replace a knee for some 85-year-old widow that could really use a new knee or a new hip. and yet millions and millions of dollars being paid to groups to go out and find people and push, do all you can to get them signed up so we can say we had seven million people sign up. sign them up all over the country using millions and millions of dollars that should have been for health care, and yet they're using it to try to recruit votes for the democratic party. millions and millions and
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millions of dollars being spent on hiring big names that young people will recognize to go on elevision, impon radio, try to talk people into signing up for health care to pay for the health care of others because they hope they're in good health and won't need it and that will fund all the millions and millions of people they're paying to celebrities to onvince them to buy obamacare. we know that insurance companies cannot run like the federal government and certainly not like the executive branch. they can't just announce seven million people have bought a product if they have not bought it. so i haven't seen any insurance companies come out and say, you know what, we have had 1.5
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million of these. we had three million of these seven million. because insurance companies have to know who has paid for their services, who has paid for their product. they can't just go along and announce to the i.r.s., well, we had seven million people that bought our product. we don't know who paid for it. we probably won't know for a year or so. we don't know but 7.1 million have bought our product, but you're going to have to give us a pass for a year or two until we find out who actually paid for it, and then we'll eventually get around to telling you how much we owe you in income tax from all the people that bought our didn't buy our insurance. they can't work like that because the i.r.s. will not let them work like that. so the insurance companies have to know how much money has come through their door. they have to account for it. they can't get into this
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magical math that the executive branch gets into. well, 7.1 million people have paid for obamacare. and counting that as some kind of glorious thing? we had -- we were told over 30 million people who didn't have health care, and that was the whole reason health care itself had to be turned upside down, canceled patients had to be turned away from their -- cancer patients had to be turned away from their cancer treatment provider. people that had the doctor they wanted, that was doing great things for their help, keeping them alive, oh, they had to lose those because we had over 30 million who didn't have health insurance. and then we were told of the 7.1 million people or so that may have acquired health insurance under obamacare, that
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there's only a small fraction of that who are people who didn't have insurance. part of the 30 or so million that didn't have insurance. well, if you're going to cut off people's cancer treatment and if you're going to cut off the ability to get the health care they need, cut off the ability to go to the cancer hospital they've been going to for treatment, if you're going to basically bring people's lives to an early end because we got to help those 30 million or so that don't have insurance , then wouldn't you want to get the 30 million signed up? why are you happy that it's only maybe a million or two million or much less who didn't have insurance that have signed up? if it's a fraction of the seven million that have actually paid and it's an even smaller part
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of the fraction that paid who didn't have health insurance before that were part of the 30-plus million, then how is that a good thing? why did the every democrat and every -- in the house and in the senate who thought it was such a good idea without a single republican's input -- we didn't get to have input in obamacare. they shoved it through this body and down the throats of the american people. they shoved it through the senate, and they had to do it quickly before scott brown ded up in office having that seat. tragically they shoved it through without any bipartisan assistance. so nearly half of americans were not represented in the creation of that bill. it wasn't done on c-span, as
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the candidate for president, senator obama, had promised. it was done in back rooms at the white house, here, who else knows well. we know there were some union leaders that met with the president about it without anybody there to record what was said. we know they ended up wanting every health care worker be a union member because their numbers have declined everywhere except in the area of government workers where franklin roosevelt said we should never even have government unions. so if the 30-plus million who purportedly didn't have health insurance were the real important reason we had to turn health care upside down, then from to cut $716 billion medicare so seniors are not
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going to be able to get care they would have before obamacare was passed. if we had to turn away seniors from health care they need just for those 30-plus million that don't have insurance, then why should we be happy that maybe only 1/30 or so of that has signed up for insurance? the best they could do is sign up one million of the 30 or so million that didn't have insurance. that's a good thing? most americans are ready to have some real reform, like having competition, like, if you need an m.r.i., you shouldn't have to
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do like one of the people in my office when she was in boston under romneycare, the president said they modeled obamacare after romneycare. in a car wreck and couldn't get an m.r.i. after a month or so after the wreck. had to fly back to texas to find out she had broken bones. this is the kind of care we are headed towards. what happens in england, what happens in canada and that's coming to a health care provider near you. you'll get on the list. why? we were told 30 million people didn't have health insurance. real reform would have made not that everybody had insurance but that they had health care that was affordable. and they could get all the health care they needed and it was affordable and in some cases it would have been a whole lot
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cheaper than having insurance and then having catastrophic insurance for the things you can't afford. those are reforms we wanted to make. and most of us were ok with fixing a problem called pre-existing conditions that it allowed sow insurance companies to really screw over people unfairly. and we offered to address that in a bipartisan manner, but the democrats didn't want our input. they said they didn't need it. they had the votes without us. didn't care what we wanted or what our constituents thought was a good idea. and so we got obamacare, and it is wreaking havoc across the country. it is time to repeal it. so we're told, we got to, under this administration and under those two glorious years when the democrats had the white
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house, the house and the senate, full control of all the powers here in washington, what did they put in motion in 2009? with control of the house, the senate and the white house? well, now we find out the president admitted last september, didn't get really much press at all, if any, from the mainstream. of course they got a cover for him. but this is staggering. it's never ever happened before in american history that 95% of e income since 2009 when the president, the democratic house, the democratic senate put these things in motion since 2009, 95% of all of the income made in
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of ica went to the top 1% mericans, top 1% of income earners in america got 95% of the income. wow. we talk about how we've really got to help the poor. we've really got to help the middle class. and then we find out the actions of this democratic-controlled house, democratic-controlled senate, and democratic-controlled white house put in motion the mechanics to ensure that 95% of all the income for those years from 2009 until it was admitted last september, 95% of the income went to the top 1% income earners. staggering. why isn't there more in the mainstream about it?
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they like to go after the wealthy. 70%, 80% of the people on wall street donate to democrats over republicans. people don't get that. it's shocking. but about four to one donations from executives and spouses on wall street generally go to democratic candidates. it's shocking, i know for some people to come to the realization that most of the wealthiest people in america are democrats. and they are ready to pull up the ladder behind them. they are thrilled to have a president that will talk about the fat cats. they don't mind being called fat cats, when they are making 95% of all the income in america, they got a president that talks about the poor and the middle class and the ones he has helped
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like nobody else are the ultrawealthy in america. at some point, people are going to figure this out. at some point, the middle class and the poor are going to say, you know what? i have been supporting democrats all these years and now 95% of all the income is going to the top 1%. how is that a good thing? why should i keep supporting a party that's sending 95% of the income to the top 1% and the wall street fat cats have gotten richer than they ever have in their lives. and i don't mind people getting wealthy, but not at the expense of the whole country. and you look at the separation of the wealthy and the middle class, it has never been so dramatically apart and far apart as it is now under this president with what was set in motion with obamacare and all
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these things that this administration has done. crony capitalism has been amazing. how? well, you can pay over $600 million to your buddies that you have known for years to create a web site. oh, they forgot to do security and that is going to cost people billions of dollars to try and save their own identity information that has now been out there on an insecure web site. you have a web site that keeps breaking down, why? crony capitalism kicked in and people who were buddies got the contract, just like british petroleum should never have been allowed to drill in the gulf of mexico but they were buddies. they had people from bp talking to john kerry about coming out in support of cap and trade. they didn't want to shut them
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down. they had hundreds and hundreds of egregious safety violations compared to others like exxon, shell. i think they had one or two or none. they shouldn't have been allowed to operate. crony capitalism was alive and well in this administration and with democrats in control. you know, yeah, we'll let them keep operating. never mind that they are the most unsafe drillers in gulf of mexico, but that's ok, they are on our side. america is sick of cronyism and favoritism. we don't begrudge anybody getting wealthy, but what we begrudge is gaming the system so the middle class and the poor have no chance because the latter -- ladder has been pulled up behind ultrawealthy democrats by a democratic administration.
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and it continues. so employers saying obamacare will cost them $5,000 more per employee, this has got to stop. we have got to repeal -- we have got to repeal obamacare and have true health care reform. some people say, well, you don't have any ideas. are you kidding? last i saw, there were about 80 different bills, ideas for reform. and what i really want to see us do is, once we get obamacare repealed, let's have the full debate. let's have it on c-span and like candidate obama said, let america see who is standing up for them and cutting those sweetheart deals with unions and aarp, the big pharmaceuticals, the a.m.a., a.h.a., who are
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cutting those big deals in private rooms so that mainstream erica sees 95% of the income going to 1% most wealthy. let them see it. i welcome that. but we have got to repeal obamacare. we have got to. pointed there a book out a week or so ago, it was copyrighted originally in 1942, library of congress has this book, "the road we are traveling," and it's interesting, he basically talks about the ways socialism and communism had failed. and socialism and communism, those are bad words, so you don't want to call it that.
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we know it is called progressivism. but page 95, he talks about basically -- and i'm quoting, in "war and peace," the march towards centralized collective controls has continued. planning has often been identified with socialism. yet orthodox socialists themselves are far from pleased with the practice in russia, germany, italy, japan and spain and look with grave suspicion on the new deal. something has appeared that nobody anticipated, nobody wanted or nobody understands. this was written in 1942. they have called it the manage earl revolution. in the first attempt to understand it, more studies will be seen before the mystery is
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cleared up. we have something called x, which is displacing the system of free enterprise all over the world. if we do not know yet what to call it, we can at least describe its major characteristics. they include in most countries, and then he says free enterprise into x, the socialist, communist progressive idea and he goes on and list these things, again, this is 1942 and interesting, you can still find on the internet, mr. speaker, presentation about president obviously supportive obama group called "the road we have traveled." appears to be a clear takeoff
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from the "the road we are traveling," that was written in 1942. here's what is described as this new progressive ideal that we are moving toward that he was excited about in 1942 under president roosevelt. these characteristics of what they called x, because they know socialism and communism doesn't go over well, progressivism goes over better. a strong centralized government, an executive arm growing at the expense of the legislative and judicial arms, in some countries, power is consolidated decrees.atorishing we have seen, mr. speaker, the legislative and judicial arms compromised in this trilateral government which the executive arm has even said and got a standing ovation in here that he
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will usurp legislative power if we don't use it. and turns out that was an aim that was set out for progressives, socialists, x, as he called it, back in 1942. . control the bank aing, credit and security exchanges by the government. well, we know under the democrat control of the house and the senate and the white house, federal government took control of all student loans. what a great thing. thank god that my kids -- we were able to get student loans for them. before i had to go begging to a democratic administration. because it isn't difficult to figure out how easily corruptble it is when the government controls who gets to get a college loan and who
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