Repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of
H.R. 596 because I think it is time for everybody that sits in this
House to listen to the American people. This is America's House. This
is the House of Representatives. It is not the Republican Party who
disapproves of the Affordable Care Act. It is the American people.

Mr. Speaker, it doesn't matter what poll you look at, whether it is
Quinnipiac, Rasmussen, CBS, FOX News, Associated Press, Gallup, or Pew
Research. Overwhelmingly, Americans are saying resoundingly: We do not
like this bill. We disapprove of this bill.

To continue to say that somehow we are taking something from
somebody, wait until the tax season hits. I am talking to people back
home that do tax preparation. They are already looking at--they are at
just day two of tax preparation; and, my goodness, what we were told
was a lie.

Mr. Gruber could not have been more truthful when he said:

Look, we relied on the stupidity of the American people. We
lied to them to get this passed.

Mr. Speaker, where I am from, you are allowed to make an honest
mistake, but you are not allowed to outright lie to people. They will
never forgive you for that.

It is time to repeal this horrible piece of legislation that got
passed through lies. It didn't get passed through honesty. I think it
is very dishonest to sit here today and say that somehow the
Republicans are trying to do something to hurt the American people when
the American people speak out and a great majority of them disapprove
of this law.

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