the first place. that's right. today if you cannot afford your insurance because obamacare made it unaffordable, the i.r.s. will fine you and your family up to $2,000 a year and that number goes up every year. let me tell you, more than five out of six households who pay that fine make less than the median income in this country. that's right. that is a direct tax on working families and poor people because they can't afford the insurance that obamacare made unaffordable. in arkansas, that's over 55,000 families who already have to go with the insecurity in the financial -- and the financial hardship of not having health insurance who then have to pay a fine to the i.r.s. that's why two thirpds of the american -- two-thirds of the american people have wanted us to repeal the individual mandate of obamacare since the very day that that law was passed. and that's why we are about to finally repeal that mandate. and in the meantime, it's going

being threatened by a fine from the i.r.s. if that insurance doesn't meet some washington bureaucrat's definite -- definition of what is suitable. that's why two-thirds of the american people support the repeal of the individual mandate, and that's why when we repeal it, the american people are going to have a big victory notwithstanding anything said by the democratic leader or any other democratic senator. so, mr. president, i yield my time. have fun during presiding officer duty. i

republican colleagues, that the nonpartisan congressional budget office said it would lead to 15 million fewer americans with health insurance. so we're kicking 13 million people off of health insurance to give tax cuts to the wealthy.

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