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GOP Shutdown

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 2, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health Insurance Government Budget and Spending

Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, well, here we are, the day my Republican colleagues have warned about for years, the day after ObamaCare. So what happened? Did the sky fall? Did insurance markets crash? No, of course not. Instead, health care marketplaces across the Nation went live. Millions of Americans logged on to learn about affordable health care plans. They gathered information to make decisions about what plan best meets their health care needs.

Yes, some glitches need to be fixed, and we knew that would happen, but yesterday was not the end of the world. It was the beginning. It was the first step.

The Tea Party, 46 times they attempted to shut down the Affordable Care Act. They stopped no one from being able to make good decisions on health care plans.

So I urge my colleagues, commonsense Republicans and Democrats can still come together to stop this reckless GOP--the Grand Ole Party--from shutting down our government. Let's pass a clean CR.


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