senator connie mack and well-known cancer prevention advocate pris priscilla mack. 's the proud father of two children, addison and connie, and two stepchildren, jasari and jiana. i'd like to invoke just a moment of personal privilege. in the year 2000, i came out with a book of washington baseball stories called "hardball on the hill." and the congressman's father who was then-senator connie mack, wrote the forward to the book. of and you might know this, but you might not know this. the congressman in addition to being a rising star in the republican party is the son of a very, very famous name in the world of baseball. his great, great grandfather -- or great grandfather, i should say, connie mack, was involved in major league baseball for 70 years as a player for the washington senators, and i gave him a book before coming on the stage that had a picture of his father catching for the washington senators in the year 1888. in a field called the swamp poodle grounds south of union station which is visible from the senate office buildings which is where, personally,

i couldn't have passed out without the help of new gingrich, without spencer abraham or connie mack,ithout lamar smith and 400,000 green cards were made available with that legislation. certainly many of those are u.s. citizens come people facing imminent deportation before that legislation. president bush and senator cornyn has pointed out not only made a genuine effort, he assigned to members of his cabinet, carlos gutierez and the other distinguished chertoff members of the cabinet. they were continuously meeting with us. both sides of the aisle trying to make progress and get legislation passed. i went to see president bush along with other members of the hispanic caucus. president bush made a genuine efforts juxtaposed of that, friends, as senator cornyn has pointed out with what we've seen under the leadership of president obama and mrs. pelosi. mrs. pelosi did not permit anything related to immigration to even reach the house floor until it was simply window dressing in the lame-duck session after they had received a great defeat of 2010. that's reality. i agree. they don't wa

we worked together with others, connie moran, jer -- -- jerry moran, connie mack and others. there are a lot of supporters across the board. mr. speaker, i want to lay out the strategy that i have planned here on the repeal of obamacare in sequence so that people that think chronologically like myself can put this into the right context that is this. i spent about half a year of my life fighting the passage of obamacare. when it finally passed, the night it passed here, i went out off the balcony and down into the lawn on the south lawn where there were thousands of people pleading, keep your hands off my health care. and i said to them that night that we would start the repeal process the next day. i went home exhausted thinking i would sleep until i was rested up and that didn't last very long. i got up and wrote the request for the repeal. as did the congresswoman from minnesota, mrs. bachmann. we submitted those repeal requests at the opening of business that same day because it was after midnight when obamacare passed. it was at that time the strategy that i put together