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S. Marines reinforcement. Sunday at 10 00, Senior Editor at millville house brooks on the u. S. Senates for to reports and why his company decided to publish it. On American History tv on cspan3 all this month, interviews with former korean war p. O. W. s. Charles ross, an army surgeon who was captured by the chinese and held as a p. O. W. From 1950 to 1953. And just after 9 00, a look back at selma and the Voting Rights act 50 years later with Eleanor Holmes norton and cbs News White House correspondent bill plante. Find our complete Television Schedule at www. Cspan. Org, and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us. Email us. Or send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. The house this week passed a bill repealing the 2010 Health Care Law by a 239186. The bill instructed certain committees to come up with a health care alternative. There have been nearly 60 attempts in the house to repeal the current law. Those voting against the measure included all democrats and three republicans. Next, we will show you a portion of the debate that occurred before the final vote. Mr. Pitts mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of h. R. 596, sponsored by Bradley Byrne ofalabama. Obamacare. Millions of americans continue to feel the harmful effects of the president s Health Care Law in almost every corner of their life. Recently, i heard from a president School Teacher who told me that many of our local schools are having trouble finding longterm substitutes for specialty classes, such as art music and physical education. Under obamacares new definition of fulltime work, substitute teachers are strictly limited to 3 1 2 days a week. Children are simply missing out on these important classes or being pushed into packed combined classes. Many of our local schools had to outsource cafeteria workers and other parttime positions. School districts are spending too much time worrying about federal mandates rather than the best way to teach children. Republicans have no shortage of good ideas to replace the president s Health Care Law. Last session there were hundreds of bills introduce to Reform Health care with more affordable choices. We will hear many of these good ideas and other reasons for repeal today, and i look forward to hearing from my colleagues. The American People continue to oppose the president s Health Care Law, and today House Republicans will stand with them again. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from new jersey is recognized for 15 minutes. Mr. Pallone mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Pallone thank you, mr. Speaker. You know, i have Great Respect for my colleague from pennsylvania, but i just think that more and more of what im hearing from my republican colleagues is what i call fantasy land. This isnt the america we know where in the past few years when the Affordable Care act has taken effect so Many Americans who didnt have Health Insurance now have it. Something like 19 million americans who were uninsured now have Health Insurance. Millions of young adults have Health Insurance because they were able to stay on their parents plan. 129 million americans no longer can be denied Health Insurance for having a preexisting condition. Seniors have saved so much money on the Prescription Drugs. I could go on and on but i dont need to. Americans like the Affordable Care act. It is working. We cannot go back. We cannot let turn over the Health Care System again to the Insurance Companies that will have skeletal plans, dont have good benefits, raise premiums to whatever they want and not actually have any help from the federal government. When you repeal obamacare or the Affordable Care act, you are abasically americans a tax increase because theyre not going to be able to get the tax credits or the subsidies that help them pay for their premiums and make those premiums affordable. This is not a this is working. This is happening. This isnt something we can just throw away and the republicans say they have some kind of what did my colleagues say, the g. O. P. Has no shortage of good ideas. What ideas . Four years ago when they first took majority in this house, the House Republicans passed a similar repeal bill instructed the committees to come back with alternatives and it never happened and it will never happen again. Oh me might have a few good ideas here and there, but they have never come up with a comprehensive plan to provide americans lowcost Health Insurance and insure most americans. Thats what weve done with the Affordable Care act. We are not going back. We are not going to repeal. This is fantasy. The president will never sign it, and i just wish they would stop wasting our time and getting to things that will actually make a difference to the American People. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Pitts mr. Speaker, im pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from tennessee, a vice chair of energy and Commerce Committee mrs. Blackburn. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. Mrs. Blackburn thank you, mr. Chairman. Talking about fantasy, mr. Chairman i think that it finds its root in this comment from Jonathan Gruber who was the architect of obamacare and im quoting him. If you had a law which said that Healthy People are going to pay and sick people will get the money, it would never have passed. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American Voter or whatever, but that was critical for the thing to pass, end quote. Now, mr. Chairman, that is the fantasy on which this was based. It does not work. It has driven up costs, and indeed we know that 70 of our democrat colleagues have crossed the ideal and have voted with us the aisle and have voted with us to repeal different provisions of this law because it does not work. It is not making insurance more affordable. It is costing more. One of my constituents, emily, her insurance was 57 a month before obamacare. After obamacare, with the subsidies, 373 a month. Another constituent jimmy is saying he cant afford to offer the benefits now because the way obamacare has driven up the cost of insurance. It is it has closed his business. That is our choices. That is why we are here. It does not work, and it is time to get this law off the books and, yes, there are lots of ideas. You know, mr. Chairman, for my colleagues just to know energy and commerce, we have over 100 bills that have been filed that would repeal different provisions of this law and we are doing it because the American People have said, we are tired of this. It is Damaging Health care. It is returning us to the day of the old Major Medical when you had higher premiums, when you had higher outofpocket costs and you had less benefits. Now, our colleagues across the aisle, mr. Speaker, may say that those are not suitable plans, but guess what, that is what obamacare plans are becoming. Its time to get it off the books, restore choice and option for the American People. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentleman from new jersey. Mr. Pallone i yield one minute to our democratic whip, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer this bill is about restoring choice not to have insurance, not to have the assurance if you get sick you wont go bankrupt. Thats what this bill is about. Thank you for the microphone. Mr. Speaker, this house is about to hold its 56th vote to undermine or repeal the Affordable Care act which came to us by the way, by route of the heritage foundation, as i think probably most of you recall. But this vote is different than the previous votes, for one significant reason. Since the last repeal vote, the Health Insurance marketplace has opened and is working. Over 9. 5 million americans have signed up through these marketplaces for Health Care Coverage through 2015 so far. That means with todays vote, republicans are choosing to take away Health Care Coverage from millions of americans. This vote will also remove Patient Protections and cost savings reforms. To make matters worse, tates vote would also defund todays vote would also defund the bipartisan popular chip program that helps states cover uninsured children. It abandons children as well. In 2011, when House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care act, they included language that said they would replace it with something else. And notwithstanding i say to my friend, mr. Pitts notwithstanding, mr. Speaker, that, they have not done so. However, they still have failed to give us an alternative. I urge my colleagues to vote no. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Pitts mr. Speaker, im pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from North Carolina, member of the health subcommittee, mrs. Ellmers. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. Mrs. Ellmers thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Chairman, for this very important discussion that we are having today. I rise in support of h. R. 596, with aims to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act, otherwise known as obamacare. Obamacare has been a costly disaster to my constituents in the Second District of North Carolina and across this country. I have heard numerous stories ranging from young women to senior citizens, and they all touch on the same underlying problem. Obamacare is unaffordable and the results are severe consequences. As a nurse, i know that repeal alone is not enough because the American People need high quality Patient Centered health care. I am so proud to be standing with my republican colleagues and many of the democrats that we serve with who are now going to say to the American People not only are we against this awful law, but we are for good Patient Centered health care and we are going to provide that plan of action for the American People to see. We need to stand with the American People who are overwhelmingly disapproving of obamacare. With that, mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new jersey. Mr. Pallone mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the Ranking Member of the health subcommittee, mr. Green of texas. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Green thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to express my staunch opposition to h. R. 596 legislation to repeal the Affordable Care act. Yesterday was groundhog day. Todays vote really feels familiar. The house has now attempted to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care act more than 56 times. Its disappointing that the Republican Leadership continues its partisan campaign to undermine the a. C. A. And create barriers for millions of uninsured americans having access to Health Insurance. Based on the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, 19 million americans and 20,000 in our houston area district would lose their Health Insurance this year if the a. C. A. Is repealed. These are people who would be without Coverage Today if it were not for the a. C. A. H. R. 596 would take away critical benefits and Health Care Coverage for hardworking families. Not only that this bill would increase the deficit repeal reforms that help slow the growth and health care costs, and undo basic protection that is provide security for the middle class. Its long past time to stop playing political games on health reform. We need to work and enact reforms that improve and build on the a. C. A. For the good of the American People. I return the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Pitts mr. Speaker, a lot of those people are on medicaid and cant even see a doctor. Im pleased now to yield two minutes to an outstanding member from pennsylvania, mr. Rothfus. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Rothfus thank you, mr. Speaker. I stand here today listening both to the rule of debate and debate we are having right now to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who ridicule our relief efforts and joke about the number of votes that we have taken to repeal obamacare. Well, mr. Speaker my friends across the aisle may think this is funny, but its no joke to the folks i represent back in pennsylvania. Its not a joke to the mother who walked into the pharmacy and found out her drug cost that cost 40 under her old plan, the one that the president promised she could keep now costs 700 because of the skyrocketing deductibles that she has. It isnt funny to people who received cancellation notice in the mail and have been forced on plans with ridiculous outofpocket costs. A woman i spoke to cant go to a doctor shes seen for 20 years, definitely isnt amused by obamacare. There wasnt one single republican who voted to create the train wreck thats known as obamacare, and we made our opposition abundantly clear to votes before we went to the ballots last november. I urge my colleagues to give americans what they asked for and support this legislation. Do it for every american who was lied to about the real costs of this law. Do it for the millions who have been hurt by this law. And lets find a better way ford. Forward. I thank the speaker and yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new jersey. Mr. Pallone i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california mrs. Capps. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. Mrs. Capps i thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, its not a joke. Its disheartening that here we are for the 56th time, again considering a bill to repeal the Affordable Care act. And this time it is different. This time repeal will do more than simply take away the important Consumer Protections that hold Insurance Companies accountable and make sure everyone is insurable. This time it will actually take Health Insurance away from millions of families. Plans they have both chosen and paid for. This time it will hit families where