in order to fully comply with obamacare, c.n.c. must restructure its benefits package for all employees as well as reach workers' hourly pay rate. these increased costs could rise as high as $160,000 per year. failure to comply with obamacare will result in over $120,000 per year in fines for c.n.c. however, noncompliance could actually be the most prudent, most financialry sound method of survival for c.n.c., but at a cost to its employees in the form of benefit reductions, many of whom have been employed by c.n.c. for decades. this would force c.n.c. employees to the exchanges to buy plans with worse coverage, with higher deductibles than is currently provided to them by c.n.c. the sad reality is that, because of obamacare and uncertain economic times, c.n.c. will likely have one feasible choice for the survival of the company and that is to ensure that its corporate size stays below the limit of 50 employees. while this will exempt c.n.c. fabrication from obamacare and help it survive, it will also sacrifice the jobs of valued e

they said that obamacare would lower the cost of health insurance. explain that to the 11 million people that see their premiums increased. we were told by the democratic leader, obamacare would create jobs. i invite her to have a conversation with the workers at mountain state's health alliance in my district who lost their jobs. even the c.b.o. agrees that this law is discouraging work. throughout the implementation of obamacare, the one thing that the president has held firm on is that working families must buy insurance or else. . he promised a veetrooo on thising commonsense legislation simply because it delays pents for one year. here in the people's house we should stand for their interest and treat people the same as big businesses. it's only fair. mr. speaker, i would argue that if this bill is doing so well, why would only 34% of the people in this country approve of it? i urge my colleagues to support this bill and yield back the alance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. mcdermott: i yield

is that true under obamacare? according to the becht fund, they say over 100 million americans who are politically connected to this administration are exempted or waived from some of the requirements under the affordable care act. but americans who have religious objections to providing drugs or devices that would take the life of innocent americans, they are being denied the exercise of their religious liberty -- liberties. so just think of that. over 100 million people, whether they belong to a union, maybe they work for a university, but somehow they're politically connected to this president and this administration, they're waived but the people who aren't politically connected, they have a different kind of a justice that they have to come under. that's wrong and that denies equal treatment under the law. mr. gohmert: if the gentlelady would yield, one of the things that -- i was not aware of that line that was scratched out by james madison but obviously if he scratched out tolerate and added in the free ex

the way the president -- ok, don't take obamacare, but work with me, ok. consider obamacare. the way the president talks you would think there is no alternative here and we've got plenty. senator tom coburn has one. tom price has one. each plan has its virtues. but the unifying principle is clear. we believe you should pick your health care plan, not washington. [applause] once again, the gop is where the action is. just as it was at the beginning of the reagan revolution. you know, people forget that cutting taxes was once controversial, even in our own party. senator bob dole used to make fun of supply-siders like jack. he used to say that the good news is a bus of supply-siders went over a cliff. seats weres is some empty. he warmed up to the idea. when he ran for president, he promised to cut tax rates across the board. that is what we call the battle of ideas. i saw this with my own budget. when i introduced my budget for the first time in 2008, i had just eight cosponsors, eight conservative backers who wanted to stick their neck out. then the tea party members got elec

do not have to purchase obamacare plans for themselves. this kind of selective enforcement is unfair to low-income and middle-class families, and it is why last week my house republican colleagues were joined by 27 democrats to pass legislation to eliminate the individual mandate tax penalty under the obamacare for one year. through obamacare, the president is marginalizing the very people he says he wants to help, and now even his closest llies have taken notice. mr. speaker, president obama's labor union friends are right. obamacare is destructive to low and middle-income families and politicians who are responsible for this train wreck must be held accountable. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. hundreds of men and women are in washington, d.c., this week representing america's transit agencies. millions of transit users and the highest ridership in over a half century, 10.7 billion rides. tomorrow

you look at obamacare, and according to the congressional budget office, obamacare is going to result in 2.5 million fewer full-time workers, according to the c.b.o. 2.5 million fewer full-time workers over the next decade and a trillion dollars in lower wages. fewer jobs, lower take-home pay. that's what we are seeing as a result of the policies that have been put in place by the democrat majority here in the united states senate and by the president of the united states. now, yesterday, there was another announcement about yet another delay of obamacare, which will be, i think, the 30th delay that we have seen so far with regard to that legislation, and in speaking about that delay, the majority leader of the united states senate said yesterday that he thought the delay was necessary because people weren't educated enough about how to use the internet. now, only in washington, d.c., only in washington, d.c., do you see politicians blaming the american people for their failures, because that's essentially what this is. the obamacare legislation by and large, i think most people will

obamacare is doing the opposite. mr. president, obamacare isn't working. we need to repeal it now and to replace it with real health care reforms so that americans don't have to endure another four years like we've had in these last four. mr. president, i yield the floor. and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: cornyn. mr. president, sometimes it takes a sudden telescope dispel a president's knee ofty about a foreign adversary. in 1979 if soviet invasion of afghanistan had that effect on president carter and one can only hope that russia's annexation of the crimea will have a similar impact on president obama. mr. cornyn: only recently the president was describing his russian reset -- those were his words -- as a success. in other words, he was skill calling the reset a success after moscow had done the following things and i think it's worth recalling the litany of things that vladimir putin and russia have done notwithstanding president obama's hopeful intention to reset that relationship.

as we see, this is another unintended consequence of obamacare. i received a letter from one of my volunteer fire departments just a few months ago that talked about this bill and said the provision that is hurting our firefighters has -- it could be devastating to fire departments. many volunteer fire departments rely on local donations and fundraisers to fund their basic operations. the addition of a requirement to provide health insurance would present a serious financial challenge to them. some departments have taken steps to reduce staffing levels and shifts in order to fall under the 50 f.t.e. and 30 hours worked threshold which reduces the fire department's baseline emergency response capabilities. d like to thank one fire chief for the fire protection district, rick hassi, for sending me this letter. i'd ask my colleagues to support this legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: thank you. . i just want to close by stating it can be done

caller: i'm calling about obamacare because we are going to want obamacare. nobody ever wanted it, it was crammed down our throats. people protested the whole summer before the against it, and then they were calling us tea party people. we wanted a good health-care plan, but not the way they wanted it. they said they should have record -- negotiated with republicans, and we don't want the government telling us. i go through medicare and medicaid. i'm a poor southern woman, that is how i get it. host: you're not a supporter of the health-care law? caller: i hope all of the democrats lose in 2000 thing -- lose in 2016, and we can scrap this bill. host: next caller is henry in new jersey. caller: good morning. listen, it really bugs me when i hear these republicans and everybody who has been health insurance and when they know that obamacare is nothing but the truth about my wife and i we are living testimony of obamacare. my wife lost her job because of downsize, i lost my job because of downsize. i was on the phone from day one when the health-care law went in

do we need obamacare to solve that problem? do we need to spend $2 trillion over the next ten years and leave 31 million people uninsured? we did not. the state stepped up and started their own solution. we had infrastructure build already. 35 states before obamacare was ever heard of their worst a high-risk health-insurance pool. in the people's republic of illinois where i hail from we had one called icit, the owner health insurance plan, if you're denied any individual market from any carrier the regulators and the state of illinois at each insurance company that operates in illinois has to deal with the percentage of profits to a pool of money and we will manage that money and if you are denied from any carrier you come to us and we will ensure you and you will carry a blue cross blue shield of illinois card even though you have preexisting conditions. guess what? we didn't need obamacare to solve the issue of preexisting conditions. ten other states have guaranteed issue individual mandates, ohio is an example. in ohio eac

do we need obamacare to solve the problem? >> no. >> do we need to spend to join dollars over the next 10 years and still leave 31 million people uninsured? we did not. we had infrastructure built already. in 35 states, before obamacare was heard of, there were laws. in the people's republic of china illinois, where i hail from, we have one called the illinois conference of health insurance plan. if you are denied for health insurance from any carrier, the regulators in the state of illinois said that they have to give a percentage of their profits to pull of mine. it if you are denied for my carrier, we will ensure you. and that will be even though you have pre-existing conditions. we did not need obamacare to solve the issue of pre-existing conditions. 10 other states have guaranteed mandates. in ohio, they mandate that each insurer do this once a year with open enrollment. another important clause is 274 2, which prohibits an insurer from dropping your coverage when you're sick, or raising your premiums when you're sick and

it seems to me that our president is not in obamacare, nor are the supreme court justices in obamacare. it seems to me that there's a shield of protection for them. it's good enough for the american people to suffer under obamacare but i don't believe that our president or the supreme court justices have to be in obamacare. mr. gohmert: that is my recollection. some of us were pushing for and asking our leadership, why don't we do an amendment that will make sure the supreme court has to be under obamacare. i really think that would have been the more appropriate thing to do. in fact, i still think it's the proacht thing to do and since -- of course it's hard to know since congress was not given a chance to see what the supreme court was doing, who was asking what questions, but it sure seems like that since they feel so strongly about obamacare, that they really should have the chance to experience it firsthand. and just find out how wonderful it is. mrs. bachmann: i would like to share my experience with it. as members of congress we were forced to go into obamacare, the only exchang

obamacare is not something we start talking about last week or last year. we've been talking about it since 2010 when they passed this monstrosity. so, we don't have to manufacture noise. to do our jobs. >> on your list there of priorities answering lisa's question, highway bill, risk insurance, xim bank, couple big-ticket items wean there. health care bill leader cantor is working on. update on that? >> we've got, i wasn't trying to give you an exhaustive list. we have issues like immigration. i think are important ought to be dealt with. replacing obamacare. certainly something we intend to do. do in a budget. it is our intent to do a budget. we have a lot of work on our list. dave. >> thank you, sir. you said a minute ago fewer people today with health insurance than when the law was passed. make sure i understand. you're saying obama care has resulted in a necessary loss of insurance? >> i believe that to be the indicates. when you look at six million americans who lost their policies and some, they claim, 4.2 million people who signed up, i don't know

he was the republican's point man in its exposing obamacare.

what she needs is relief from obamacare. so does another kentuckian who wrote from henderson county, that's because his premium will jump $400 a month to over $1,100 a month under obamacare. americans he wrote were told we could keep our existing policy if we chose. not only was this a lie, it's a lie that will cost me an additional $700 a month. how is a political show vote going to help him? of course, it isn't and there's respect a thing the democratic party's political arm can do to fix these problems. kentuckians and countless americans suffering under obamacare need real solutions, not gimmicks. not base-pleasing ideology. solutions is what is needed. look, washington democrats forced america's middle class to enter this impossible situation. they basically blocked every reasonable attempt to reform this law or to change

i think there's no doubt about that and i would suggest that obamacare is the poster child for one of the reasons that that exist, or that's increasing is because word isn't matching the. promises have been made and absolutely broken. and as a former matching position come is distressing because we're not talking of some nebulous program. we're talking about real people's lives. in so many ways real people are getting harmed. in spite of that you have harry reid taking to the floor of the senate saying any story that decries a problem with obamacare, all of them are lies. do you agree to all of these stories that have been read our lives? >> senate -- to me, congressman, i did not hear what senator reid said. and, of course, there are lots of anecdotes of lots of people and lots of success stories. >> if you were to avert the senate majority leader say all thallthe stores about a see a sd is i really don't want to comment on his comments. i did knew that. >> again, that's the kind of trust that's lacking because it begs the -- >> i said clearly there are lots of people and lots of rea

obamacare was designed to screw people over. actuaries sat down in a room and figured out how they are going to pay for this monstrosity of a program. they decided that screw everyone he five or younger. -- 35 or younger. privacy areunding issues young people are concerned with. the proof is look at ken cuccinelli. he won all voters between 18 and 24. are ourthese narratives own fault. we don't push back on them, about young people. we have some demographic challenges. but the democrats do as well. for whatever reason, we seem to be overly obsessed with our own greed -- with our own. the started their technology operation. ononder if you could expand the mission and purpose of the silicon valley operation. fundraising, technology and fieldwork? >> it is a go where we think our blessed opportunity to recruit we thinktalent is -- our best opportunity to recruit the vest thing talent is -- best talent is. he did some big things there. he heads up the operation. we want to make it easier for software engineers and data architects to

found that, as a result of the generous subsidies and the not-so-generous taxes in obamacare, millions of workers would either reduce their hours or leave the work force entire entirely. virtually every objective observer saw this as a bad thing. yet, in response to those numbers are these numbers: the administration and it's suppor the airwaves to applaud the fact that obamacare would -- quote -- "free" -- unquote -- people from their jobs and allow them to in the words of the white house press secretary -- quote -- "pursue their dreams" -- unquote -- courtesy of their fellow taxpayers. while economists and the administration and liberal pundits might applaud the reduced labor supply arising from obamacare, it is to say the least difficult for me to find merit in the resulting reduction in economic growth. of course there's nothing in the president's budget that would address this issue. if anything, the policies contained in this new round of proposals would make all of this worse. returning to the latest call for well over $1 trillion of new revenue, the administration clairnlings a

it comes straight from the pages of obamacare. in december of 2009 in the run up to the passage of that legislation, senator mikulski offered an amendment which provided the authorizing language for this oppressive mandate. 2009, the same year, when president obama spoke at notre dame university, which parenthetically is also suing over the mandate, he spoke about drafting a sensible conscience clause, his words, and yet today protection of conscience is another highly visible broken promise of obamacare. you know, mr. speaker, to tell people that their conscience is irrelevant and that they must follow the federal government's conscience rather than their own is pleatly antithetical to the american principle of religious freedom in the first amendment. let's reverse obama's attack on con -- unless reversed, the willk on conscience rights hurt many. many businesses could be forced to shut down, eliminating jobs. i would never have believed that this kind of religious violation could occur in the united states of america, but it ha

>> it's the only way to repeal obamacare. i keep hearing people say on tv, all, don't get in the way. it's falling on its own. nothing also its own. we have ultimately the heinous government programs. public education, the amtrak food service, the post office, the irs. nothing ever falls on its own. the only way to get rid of obamacare, and by the way, i am an individual out there. i'm part of the 1% that didn't get away for. wait until it comes to you, you will not be able to get an english-speaking doctor went to an american medical school, i mean unless you leave the country to find one. may be on an indian reservation. that i think is going to be an argument and the only thing that is going to hurt it is, obviously i'm disappointed in republicans but don't think it matters more is immigration. immigration is forever. it is game over when that happens. every republican voted against obamacare. so there's no try to figure out if you can vote against obamacare. some are better than others. i don't like hearing them say will

now, obamacare's unreasonable mandate has placed them in a bind. violate the tenets of their faith or be fined, fined by the federal government, fined by obamacare, fined $100 per employee per day. that is what the fine works out to be. unbelievably it would be cheaper to strip their employees of health care coverage all together and pay a single $2,000 fine per employee per year. that is what you find in the 20,000 pages of regulation and the 2,p00 pages of the president's -- 2,700 pages of the president's health care law. but that is not what these family businesses want to do. they really want to do the right thing and take care of the hardworking men and women who are in their employment. if these family businesses are forced to close or drop health care for their employees, it will be the employees and their families who are made to suffer. this mandate is just another flawed part of a terribly flawed law, and americans are growing tired of having to cope with it. 59% of the country opposes, opposes the contraception mandate because they know

the president promised that if you like your plan, you get to keep it under obamacare. the federal government mandates that americans buy health care coverage and not just any coverage, but the coverage the federal government says is good enough. sadly, millions of americans have lost their health care plans. health plans they liked and wanted to keep, despite the promises and continued delays of the administration. obamacare expanded medicaid, and unsustainable health entitlement program in which 40% of physicians on average do not even agreed to see medicaid patients. i believe the experiences of other countries will reinforce what many medicaid patients already know, there coverage does not always translate into timely access to care. today's hearing will also examine costs. while the president promised that obamacare would bring down premiums by $2500, premiums have actually gone up by an average of 41% in the individual market due to the law's mandates. so how does obama to attempt to control costs? for starters it established the independent payment advisory board

then there is obamacare. where do we even begin? when the website that americans must use to purchase government notated health care did work, do we get accountability? >> no. >> we were told the errors were great problems to have. theret was discovered were no criminal background checks for obamacare navigators, people employed to handle sensitive information, did we get accountability? >> no. fact, secretary sibelius told me herself that convicted felons could be hired as navigators. barlow, ae like glenn planter in texas lost his health insurance, he found the only comparable plan was 65% more expensive and included maternity care which he did not need. did we get accountability there? >> no. >> we were told that people like him were thrilled with their options, thrilled. the fact of the matter is we conservatives predicted things like this would happen. when obamacare was debated, we scream from the rooftops that it would not work, that it would be make killer, that it would health care more expensive and less accessible for mil

[laughter] bear in mind what happens with obamacare. the american people have put that program -- it has shifted the power that was given to us by the constitution and by the founders to the government. it is the most massive shift of power that has ever occurred. need toto redo it, we put the power back in the hands of the people, we need to make sure we keep it there. [applause] recently, i said that in nazi germany, people did not believe in what hitler was doing, most of them did not. but did they speak up? did they say anything? absolutely not and look at the atrocities that occurred. of course, they said that carson said that progressives are anz nazis. of course that is not the case. they do.is what they repeat the lies because they cannot argue the actual facts. they do not want to talk about the real issues. [applause] it is important for the american people to understand the tactics of these people who simply sit around and try to demonize people, come straight out of the books. never have a conversation with your adversary be

every republican in congress is opposed to obamacare with no exceptions. not a single republican legislator before it. not a single republican legislator would support it. the issue is tactics. how best to defeat the democrats and repeal a monstrous law. how to defeat the socialist party that controls our government and is so bent on bankrupt in our country, per player military and a strong the culture of individual and of which entity that has made this position where it is. understanding that this is tactical, not fundamental, is crucial to keeping the marriage alive. the tactical difference is no grounds for divorce. in an all important movement is there's a difference within politics and policy. republicans are good at policy. they're not so good at politics which is the way one gets to make policy. to we repeal obamacare by obstructing it at every turn our do we repeal the byline love until we have a majority and abolish it and a stroke? if we live low do we demoralize our troops to see us as compromises and appeasers and give up the chance of ever wi

crash with the obamacare. and my question is, how can we avoid that from happening again? thank you. guest: talking about the website itself? when you're talking about that? caller: yes. the website itself. guest: and again, i mentioned earlier that the website is now for the most part up and running. i think one of the things that that laid bare was part of the problem with the way the federal government contracts with these massive it companies and hands out these massive contracts and the president has spoken to this and says this speaks to the need for contracting reform and the way we select our vendors and the ability to be nimble and flexible when it comes to how we contract and with whom we contract. so i think for any other large undertaking like this, which again this is an undertaking probably larger than any the federal government has ever undertaken, you probably see some kind of reform on the it side in the way the government contracts. host: as we talk about this upcoming deadline we should prob

fast forward to the fight over obamacare. who was the 60th vote on obamacare? who left the gop at that very moment that he decided that he could win as a democrat, not as a republican? arlen specter. so our decisions matter a lot in public policy. we would not be fighting to repeal obamacare today if it wasn't the decision by some republican experts to save arlen specter. john boehner's best be friend, steve latourette, former congressman, he is a lobbyist now. he has created a pac called defending main street explicitly, and i quote, to beat the snot out of the tea party. he's running ads in some of these races. he's defending some of the big's offenders -- biggest offenders when it comes to the principles of limited government. do you know who funds that pac? john boehner's best friend's pac? labor with's political league, 100k, international league of operating ennears, 2 -- engineers, 200k. i could not find a single conservative or republican donor that gives to steve latourette's pac. so here we are, we're having this family squabble. there's an honest deb

finally, last night brought us yet another delay of obamacare, another deadline made meaningless. you know, he hasn't put enough loophole into the law already, the administration is now resorting to an honor system to enforce it. what is this? a joke? listen, this is part of a long-term pattern that this administration manipulating the laws for its own convenience. it's not hard to understand why the american people question the -- this administration's commitment to the rule of law. >> mr. speaker, when you talk about these efforts of ukraine, trying to move another piece of legislation, week, working things out with the senate, can you articulate in a very concrete fashion what exactly you expect the result to be with vlad meefer putin? are you expecting him move -- vladimir putin? are you expecting him to move back from ewe cain? what are you expecting? >> we have allies in central and eastern europe, we have allies in western europe, who are asking the question, where is the line? and what we're trying to do is to work with the administration, give them tools to stand up to pu

big one, d that's a obamacare. the pregnancy discrimination act, sarbanes oxley, the title 7 of the civil rights act, the niformed act of 1978, veterans mprovements act, vietnam acts, adjustment and act. ning can anyone keep up with that. this business has to. with 13 employees how many people does it take just to keep with up with those regulations? mr. speaker, we have a problem. we have a washington, d.c., that has become arrogant. i don't think it's intention install. quite frankly, everyone is trying tosh kind, overly kind and stack on one regulation over another and no company can keep up with this. the attitude is simple. we know better than you. we won't run your company. you quont run your family like t should be run bru tell you like it should be run. you won't run your insurance company, so we will run it for you. mistreat ll employees. mr. speaker, that is not what we are as americans. ur nation became strong. changed the world with a simple world ethic and the abelt with the people to achieve success t

filibuster proof majority have they want to reform the corporate tax code they want to fix obamacare. they seem to be troubled by the same gridlock that troubles the administration. to worrying about the changes that you want me to the way that the national government treats the national economy? >> we have a senate and house race in november. it looks very good for the republicans, with the number of senate the that are held why democrats that are engaging. -- are indeed your. danger. 2016, there are a number of seats that you worry but in illinois, perhaps, which is one intent but it which is not only republican territory. 51 is not what you're looking for, 54, 55 is what you're looking for. the house will strengthen going forward. the replica guns have repetitive it is for -- the republicans have better candidates than the 10,012ts, much more than -- 2012 and we were sloppy about running for senate. not being disrespectful to anybody's arsenal -- personal to go withuld refer the scaling or something. [laughter] >> you said greater than 50%. what percentage would you give? what fact

obamacare has been a failure. need to replace it with market-driven, patient-centered health care where the doctor and the patient are in charge of health care. we need to have health care that gives consumers options, health savings accounts so they have more choices and they can pocket whatever savings they create. we need to allow consumers to buy health care across state lines so there will be more competition. we need to allow small businesses to band together so they can get the economies of scale that large businesses get. and we need to push back on the frivolous lawsuits so that doctors aren't practicing defensive medicine. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. kinks -- mr. kingston: mr. speaker, this is what we can do to help health care and have price goes down. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. conyers: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro

caller: you do not have to buy obamacare. all you have to do is get one of their hardship deals from obama and you do not have to buy it. guest: you are referring to exemption. that is an option. you have to prove you have some sort of financial hardship that would prevent you from getting coverage. you're not required to buy insurance through the federal state exchange. you are required to have health insurance by march 31. >> a story in the washed in times this morning, if you would seek the exemption, do you agree with that? guest: i would have to see if that plays out. it is hard to know. experts are saying it is not as big a deal as critics and conservatives have pointed out. right away, they were saying this is another way the administration was kind of will -- walking around the individual mandate. again, most people in do want coverage. i do not think as many people will take advantage of a hardship exemption as something. >> about 300,000 signing up for plans onto the marketplace out of a potential 3.1 million. >> te

james says, obamacare sure has not helped us. i worked for a small business that has renewed my health care and my deductible has risen from $1,000 to $2,500. my visits went from $20to $30 in the co-pay and the specialist co-pay went from $50 to $75. and he doesn't understand how he's helped by the new health care law. carl in lee's summit, missouri, says he has type 1 diabetes and his deductible went up to $7,500. again, for most families, a $7,500 deductible is like not having insurance at all. it's -- if we had -- if we could go back to where we had the health savings account, where you had a high deductible and you had your health savings account and that high deductible could kick in only if you had to pay the high deductible, i never saw a health savings account plan that wouldn't be cheaper than these plans that cover a lot of things but they cover a lot of things a lot of people don't need. carl says, to keep my premium rates down, my employer had to raise our deductible to $7,500 with no prescription benefit so that now

obamacare to defund and hold government hostage that you opposed. i would like to get your assessment of where you think the party is now heading into these november elections. has some balance been restored? question butgreat let me first thank the atlantic for this opportunity. it is nice to be here with commerce woman harmon who did so much for this country in the area of intelligence and making sure that we had a strong intelligence community. [applause] really -- is is a one that is very current because obviouslyis going to a period in the wilderness and it has to figure out how to get out of the wilderness. i compare it somewhat to the democratic party in the early 1970's when the party lurched to the left and then spent 10 years joint to get back and was led backed by the democratic president council and clinton and al gore and others who participated in that. we unfortunately have allowed what i call the showers -- the shouters to dominate the playing field for too long as a party. national parties, and we only have two and we should only ha

obamacare is a disaster. president obama has lost the confidence of the american people. with things going so badly for the left, especially in an election year, conventional wisdom in washington is the best thing conservatives can do is nothing. should be simply to sit on our hands, to keep our heads down and and let president obama's failures preserve the america -- the republican majority in the house and when one in the senate. conventional wisdom in washington, as usual, is dead wrong. unworthy of the party of reagan and lincoln. president obama and the democrats have done everything he can to deserve defeat. the republican party has not yet done what it must do to deserve victory. [applause] thank you. we have not yet won back the trust of the american people. or explained why they should give it to us. 2014 dust be the year we change that -- must be the year we change that. most of the speakers you will hear this week will come to inspire you or flatter you or claim solidarity with you. i have come to challenge you. the work remaining before us this year and for th

as a result of obamacare, we have a state run health insurance exchange. as the lead republican on this committee, i have worked the better half of the past year trying to make sure that we have lower cost, increase choice, and protect the privacy of every minnesotan. unfortunately, at this point in minnesota, the house, senate, and the governor are all controlled by the democrats. as a result, more than $150 million has been spent on a dysfunctional and extremely frozen website. in addition, over 280,000 in a soda -- minnesotans have been kicked off of insurance that they like and many have had their private information compromised as a result of a major data breach. those are not just numbers. they are individuals. i heard from one mother whose daughter has over there in cancer who was released from her current insurance because of obamacare. this is just one of their stories. it is unacceptable. their story is neither compassionate nor fiscally responsible. the implications of decisions being made in ec, in minnesota -- in d.c., in minnesota, and across

act, orffordable care obamacare, is about coverage, quality, and cost. the public attention has focused most on the coverage part of the equation. it is quite understandable in the month of october we were not getting a lot of coverage for coverage because of the website situation making it difficult to sign up. that will become clear that we have now reached over 5 million in the marketplaces. we have many more in medicaid. there will be more and rolling by the -- enrolling by the deadline at the end of the month. the coverage will be increasingly objectively clear. inequality are harder to observe. what we do observe his overall growth in health care costs is growing at the slowest rate in over 50 years. we know that cannot be fully explained by the economy as we get further and further away from the recession. that is not the reason it is happening. we cannot -- that cannot be fully explained by other factors, like higher cost sharing, which has been a decade-long trend. we know it cannot be explained by prescription drugs coming off patent, because y

this is something they had done long before obamacare came along. at one point hobby lobby was challenged via competitor who said they would bury the company with their money so the firm opened their doors on sunday ultimately earning the company some $150 million in revenue each week. that was over and above what the competitor previously had been able to raise. eventually david green said he was challenged by god to trust in him with his business to go back to his policy of closing on sundays and he did in his business has prospered. david's christian faith runs deeper than his desire to have a profitable successful company but he is getting both. when he was faced with a decision to make more money or obey god he chose to obey god no matter the consequences. recently he was faced with a new test and is in to this madam president. it didn't come from a competitor. he came from the united states government. part of obamacare requires not only to provide health insurance to their employees but also to provide free access to the pills that terminate

low does voting to repea obamacare for the 50th time create jobs? , the question is how does obamacare destroy jobs. i see that every day back home. i see that and slower growth in our economy in every metric that comes out. repealing obamacare refuels all those burdens and regulations that destroys jobs. i am not the only one who sees a it, smiley. the president keeps putting off regulations until after the next election. his own health and human services department tells us 80% of small business policies are going to be canceled under obamacare. is something the president does not want to see happen before the next election. i wish he would work with me to repeal that. smiley,t uncertainty, ask any business man or woman, uncertainty is a job killer. the president amplifies uncertainty with every delay he unilaterally imposes. host: tony, rhode island. caller: thank you for c-span. i am a career -- i am a korea vet. politicians give us a lousy $20 with social security. grocery, gas, everything is going up more than 1.7%. this president is terrible.

it is the second or third largest item before obamacare. they would normally pay for 100% of the cause of expansion. they would not be on the hook for the medicaid expansion. it would never cost more than 10% of the total. 24 have said the 10% cost are in 2017 and that is too much for our budget. the last caller is nancy. caller: i have a common i guess. every time i hear death panels i go back and look this up. . it was for research. it is the unelected people on that. guest: sarah palin came up with it. goingeve she was right with a program that would've allowed them to advise their this and that would not have required the patience to do anything. what they are talking about is patient centered outcomes and research institute. it is what they call comparative effectiveness. the health care law was very suspicious but. there was not a specific drug or .evice host: thank you for being with us. >> tomorrow on the "washington journal" chris discusses his appearance at the interactive festival in austin texas, which featured comments from nsa

repeal obamacare, we lose all that. they want to keep talking about taking these benefits away. let's live with this law. let's make it work well. it's starting to work really well in ohio. we're having thousands of signups every single day. i know in the presiding officer's state of hawaii, they're getting lots of people to sign up. lots of young people are signing up. let's move on. stop debating this. help make it work better and let's talk about how we create jobs, not how you're going to repeal some health care law that you didn't like because it didn't fit with your ideology or you didn't like the president or whatever the reasons my colleagues didn't like the affordable care act. history is going to say over and over, why do you want to take these benefits away? this is working. remember with medicare in 1965, the tea party, they didn't like it, insurance companies didn't like it. but everybody liked it five years later. social security, the same far-right forces opposed the creation of social security. five years later people liked it. this stuff works and it's going to

the obamacare debacle is the tip of the confidence -- the tip of the incompetence in washington. the first three words of our constitution, can demand accountability for a string of coverups starting with benghazi, the irs, and government spying on american citizens and reporters. ae the people" is not political slogan. it is a commitment and a way of life. it must be if we are going to improve things. [applause] weommitment is not just what say. commitments are what we do. the framers who crafted our constitution were counting on "we the people" to hold government accountable. some say we must ignore social issues like the definition of marriage, the sanctity of life, and religious freedoms. those are deeply moral and spiritual issues. they should be part of america's elections. [applause] the 1850's, a political party was born on the idea of a great moral issue -- human bondage. the abolition of slavery in america. if we as conservatives ceased to be a place where people of faith and those who believe in strong moral values can come, we will cease to be a political force in ame

health care is a pretty big deal and everybody thinks of massachusetts a precursor to obamacare. host: a couple of callers waiting for you. ham, north in dur carolina. caller: good morning. i wonder what health care would look like if democrats, republicans, independents, and americans all worked together. looking at some kind of alzheimer's disease. president obama, when he tried to pass health care, he had so much opposition, it would not have passed. theried to push single-payer system, and every republican went against that. g inthey are still callin this, talking about the problems. but i wonder if we all worked together as americans what health care would look like question mark -- would look like? people a few years ago what it might look like if everyone worked together, you might have people describing the system like the one we have, at least if you talk to supporters of this law. they will say this is built on republican free-market ideas where you actually boost private sector insurance and preserved the system as opposed to what the democrats want, which is the singl