The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , april 23 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable rob woodall to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Bane he shall, speaker of the house of representatives. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend ribble, dunmar pennsylvania. The chaplain we come today knowing that you are worthy of all worship. We declare that you are the creator and sustainer of all things and the one who provides the means of forgiveness of mankind. We, your created beings are your stewards. Father, we thank you that you allow us to live into a nation that is able to worship you. Give them the ability to discern the times in which we see and to see the consequences of their actions. Guide them in making decisions that is best. Bring new spiritua
We, too were ready to process on 101, had done extensive internal testing of our processes and systems, and our first awareness of difficulties with the hub was 101, or the portal, im sorry, on 101, when we attempted to do key entry. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No. Ness. No sir. As we evaluate the problems with this website, i think its important that we focus on the facts. My republican colleagues have been predicting that Health Care Reform would be a disaster for three years now and every time theyve been wrong, they said insurance rates would skyrocket, in fact, theyre lower than predicted. They said Health Care Costs would sore, in fact have grown at a record low rate. They said medicare would be undermind, in fact, its stronger than ever and seen years are saving billions of dollars on prescription drugs. What we need to do is separate the facts for us to reach a determination here. Some have said that fixing the website would take six months to a year. Others have
To how one gets to a closing guantanamo . I dont think it is that complicated once we decide the we are going to do. The argument been would be we will never really she because there is a risk if we release you. Thats not good criminal Justice Policy and i dont think its good counterterrorism policy. Everybody else down there that we determined for whatever reason we cannot release or weve tried and convicted them we will housing in the United States. There are many, many Public Policy arguments over the course of my great that a frustrated me. Its amazing how people lead to incorrect conclusions and then the same irreversible. But the notion that we cannot hold dangers people safely in the United States to me is patently absurd. And yet, it drives the debate. The reason that we have not close guantanamo, keep in mind, it wasnt some big liberal goal, gates, john mccain, george w. Bush said we should close guantanamo. Why havent we . Well, ill skip the political argument for the moment
With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar
They have. This was the president s quote, just visit healthcare. Gov and there you can compare insurance plans side by side the same way youd shop for a plane ticket or a t. V. While yall were testifying i went on amazon and looked for a t. V. Within one minute i had over 300,000 options of t. V. s that i could purchase and they were low cost t. V. s too. I tried to go on healthcare. Gov to register earlier this week. I spent more than two hours. Was kicked out four times. Had to reenter data multiple times. Was given blank screnals a number of times. Ultimately never got to a place i could see Healthcare Plans where i could compare side by side like the president promised. Its not the experience you get when people go online and purchase products. This is a product the federal government said you have to buy by law or you get find. And were asking for at least a delay of the fine while people cant even go to the website that doesnt work. I used to Program Computers for a living. I un