Mr. Speaker, for the past 20 years, as a practicing lawyer and business owner, i have seen firsthand how companies have tried to grow and create more jobs, but they simply cant due to the strangling grip of obamacares employer mandate. Small businesses tell a story of how their current plan was canceled and how they were forced by obamacare into a health plan that covers less with higher copays and higher deductibles, along with unsustainable increases in premiums. Simply stated obamacare is crushing Small Business across this great country. And despite the urgency of the crisis, the president has decided to dig himself in and promised to veto any commonsense reforms such as removing this employer mandate. So if the white house has decided not to collaborate with congress to ease the burdens on families and businesses, then the only path we have is full repeal. Along with that mr. Speaker, we need to move forward and develop Commonsense Health care reform that not only respects families and the doctorpatient relationship but also considers any and all opportunities to lower skyrocketing health care costs. Thank you and i urge my colleagues to join me in voting yes on h. R. 596. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from michigans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Scott thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record letters in opposition from the following organizations, the American Academy of family physicians, the American Diabetes association, and the American Public health association. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scott and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from alabama is recognized. Mr. Bryne mr. Speaker, i am pleased to recognize and yield to the gentleman from georgia another new member of the education and work force committee, a new member of this body, im yielding for one minute to the gentleman from georgia, mr. Allen. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. Len len i thank the gentleman from mr. Allen i thank the gentleman from alabama for yielding. Mr. Speaker, individuals, families and businesses alike in georgia and across the nation agree that obamacare is wrong for americans. Across my district hardworking georgians are trying to make ends meet, theyve told me their Health Care Premiums have skyrocketed under this law. Many have learned the plan they liked and were promised they could keep have been canceled and theyve been denied care and access to their doctors. In addition to hurting American Families, obamacares costly mandates burden Small Businesses. The bedrock of job creation and entrepreneurship. And have real consequences for their employees, facing lower hours and wages. The Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the law will lower the number of fulltime equivalent workers by 2. 5 million. The president s own center for medicare and Medicaid Services also found that an estimated 2 3 of Small Businesses will see their Health Care Premiums go up under obamacare. I urge my colleagues to support h. R. 596 and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Scott mr. Speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Courtney. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from connecticut voiced for three minutes. Mr. Courtney thank you, is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the republican majority held a reteat where other members met and they set their agenda for 2014 and after that retreat, the leadership issued a statement saying, promising, with a solemn promise, that the House Republicans will rally around and pass an alternative to obamacare this year. Well, thats about four years after the law passed, but, hey, at least give them some credit that they were going to move forward in 2014 when the alternative to the with an alternative to the Affordable Care act. That was last winter and winter turned to spring, spring turned to summer, summer turned to fall, fall turned to winter and we never had a vote in the house on the alternative, the promised alternative to the obamacare. Well, maybe we had the committee maybe the committees took action, the committees that this proposed bill is lateraling this issue off to. Did we have a Commission Vote on education in the work force, ways and means, energy and commerce . No, did we have hearings on an alternative that was promised by the majority caucus a year ago on an alternative to the Affordable Care act . No. No hearings, no markup, no vote, no bill. So here we are today with the majority once again throwing out a promise that, you know, trust us, in 180 days well have an alternative to the Affordable Care act. Well, mr. Speaker, unfortunately in the last year millions of americans have moved on. Parents are ensuring their kids through the insuring their kids through the Affordable Care act up to age 26. There are members in the majority who take advantage of that very provision to provide coverage for their children under the Affordable Care act that they seek to repeal here today. Millions of seniors see their Prescription Drug costs cut because the Affordable Care act, because of the leftover of the republican Prescription Drug bill which led this outrageous doughnut hole that threw 100 of the costs of medications to seniors who was paying monthly premiums and we saw the startup of exchanges both at the state level like my state and the state of connecticut and the federal exchange, which have enrolled millions of americans in the owe to affordable plans. This year the Affordable Care act in connecticut, we had admissions by the Insurance Companies to participate in 2015. Did we see reduced competition or less of a free marketplace . No we saw more competition we have more insurers who are offering the product through the exchange in 2015 than in 2014. Did we see rates go up . Mr. Speaker, im going to submit to this chamber a record from the Connecticut State Department of insurance which shows that rates went down down for individual plans and for Small Group Market plans. The fact of the matter is that this marketplace, which now has more carriers is now providing lower rates, saving close to 90 million from last years rates than the year before. Mr. Speaker, what we are being asked to do here today is to stop that progress to take away that coverage to young adults that today get it through their parents plans, to take away the Prescription Drug benefit can i have 30 more seconds . Mr. Scott i yield the gentleman 30 additional seconds. Mr. Courtney to take away from seniors the relief that theyre getting for lifesaving medicationings, and to tell those individual and small group plans that are purchasing it now this year again we had 70,000 reenrollments of the 75,000 that enrolled last year and we have 30,000 new that have enrolled this year in that plan. We have cut the uninsured rate in the state like connecticut, thats embraced the law, down to 4 of its population. And youre telling folks like me blow it up, get rid of it. And you have no plan, even though your caucus made a promise a year ago to the American People that they would provide a plan and they never came through with it. Reject this bill. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from alabama is recognized. Mr. Bryne thank you, mr. Speaker. Im pleased to yield to my distinguished colleague from florida, mr. Desantis, for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. Mr. Desantis mr. Speaker, my colleagues have demonstrated ably the substantive problems with this law. Higher costs, canceled coverage, lost doctors. Id just like to say that obamacare has done harm to small harm. When you go around the country telling people over and over again that they can keep their plans, that they can keep their doctors and that they will see thousands of dollars in savings on Health Insurance premiums, all the while you know or should have known that those promises were false i think that damages our political system, because ultimately Representative Government requires honest dialogue between elected officials and the citizenry. Its almost as if this is the Jonathan Gruber law where we want to tell people lies in order to get bills that we would not have passed otherwise. I think that is unacceptable. These promises made to the American People were false. The American People were deceived and i think our Representative Government and political system have been damaged as a result and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Scott mr. Speaker, i yield 1 1 2 minutes to the gentlelady from North Carolina, ms. Adams. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from North Carolina is recognized for 1 1 2 minutes. Ms. Adams thank you mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise today in support of the Affordable Care act. One year after implementing the Health Care Exchanges, the number of uninsured in this country has decreased dramatically. Implementing the Health Care Exchanges has provided Health Insurance access to 208,000 individuals in my district, with what are lot accounting for one of North Carolinas highest number of subsidized Health Insurance enrollments. Young adults can stay on their parents plans resulting in nearly 10,000 young adults retaining Health Insurance in my district. Seniors in my district have saved 11. 1 million through Medicare Part b, the Prescription Drug discount. The Affordable Care act has also created 9. 6 million private sector jobs. My districts Unemployment Rate is 13. 9 . So for me its not about just health, but jobs and our economy. These tangible benefits cannot be ignored. I urge my republican colleagues end to talks of repeal and instead work with democrats to strengthen the law. The Affordable Care act would have meant a lot to my sister, who i often had to take to the emergency room for primary care for sickle cell. She died at age 26, but i know she would have been grateful for the coverage provided by the Affordable Care act. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. The gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from alabama is recognized. Mr. Bryne mr. Speaker, i am pleased to yield to a new member of the house, from the state of texas, who is himself a dentist. Im yielding for one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. Babin. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Babin thank you mr. Speaker, and thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, i rise in strong support of h. R. 596, legislation that i have cosponsored to fully repeal obamacare. My constituents sent me to washington to repeal this disastrous law and that is what we are doing today. The number one issue in my district. As a Health Care Provider myself for 38 years ive seen firsthand the devastating affects of obamacare and how it undermines the doctorpatient relationship. Its costing us jobs and work hours and has led to millions of americans losing their health plans that they had and wanted to keep. And were promised such. Restoring the patients right to choose a plan that they want and can afford is just plain common sense. Our bill does this by repealing obamacare and replacing it with free market solutions. We put america on a path toward patientfocused care, rather than governmentdirected care. Their traditional doctorpatient relationship would be restored. Lets show the American People that we are listening and rid the nation of this terrible law and replace it with policies that work. Thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Scott mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from alabama is recognized. Mr. Bryne mr. Speaker, i am pleased to recognize and yield to a colleague of ours a distinguished veteran, the gentleman from utah, mr. Stewart. For one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from utah is recognized for one minute. Mr. Stewart id like to thank my friend and the gentleman from alabama for giving me time to express my feelings. The intent of obamacare was to make health care more accessible and more affordable. And it in fact has done exactly the opposite. And i have heard from hundreds of my constituents who tell me how its impacted their lives. A friend of mine from bountiful who their premiums have doubled, have doubled. A Small Business owner in the southern part of my district who found they could not get insurance at all. Their plan was entirely taken away. This law was built on a foundation of deception. We were told if you wanted to keep your doctor, could you keep them. We were told if you wanted to keep your plan, you could keep it. We were told it would reduce costs by an average 2,500 per family. We now know 2,500 per family. We now know that all of that was untrue and they knew it at the time they passed this law that it was untrue. All of us want to take care of those who have preexisting conditions. All of us want to provide insurance to the uninsured. We can do better. With that, mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. Mr. Scott i continue to yield to reserve, excuse me. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from alabama is recognized. Mr. Bryne im pleased to recognize and yield to another freshman in this house who comes from the great state of washington, i yield for one minute to the gentleman from washington mr. Newhouse. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. New new thank you, mr. Speaker nuenue thank you, mr. Speaker mr. Newhouse thank you mr. Speaker. This has been detrimental to American Families businesses and taxpayers. Americans were promised that they could keep their Health Care Plans and see their premiums decrease. Instead theyve been irreparably harmed by the elimination of their existing Health Care Plans and pushed into a onesizefitsall Health Care System. A system that fails to consider individual needs and eliminates choice of physicians, while families are faced with soaring premiums. The cost of implementing obamacare has crippled businesses. Small and Large Businesses have been forced to pass increased costs onto their employees, resulting in a decreased work force, lower wages, and delayed hiring. Obamacare has hurt Economic Growth at a time when we can least afford it damaging our fragile economic recovery. Put simply a governmentcentered approach to health care is not the answer. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this legislation. Thank you and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from alabama reserves. The gentleman from virginia. I reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. I would like to recognize and yield to another freshman member of this house, a gentleman who brings great experience to his position in this house, i yield for one minute to the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Walker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Walker thank you, mr. Speaker mr. Chairman. Middle class economics. Its the president s new catch phrase, a method to Pay Lip Service to helping American Families. More smoke and mirrors. In november, voters spoke loud and clear in sending 58 members to washington. I made a promise over the last two years that i would come to washington and stand up. Today im proud to vote against, for t