Sanford Addresses U.S. House

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Representative Mark Sanford rose to the floor during the debate on Obamacare Repeal. It was his first time addressing the House following his swearing-in yesterday.

His remarks:

“I rise with a chorus of others in this whole notion of repealing Obamacare, primarily because of its financial impact. At the end of the day, if you look at the Government Accounting Office numbers, what they show is there’s $6.2 trillion of cumulative impact here over the next ten years. If you look at the Congressional Budget Office numbers, what they show is increasing numbers in $800 billion increments, and in fact if you look at the American Tax Reform studies, what they show are 20 new or raised levels of tax that go with this bill. I think more importantly it turns on its head this whole notion of a Hippocratic Oath, which has been a 200-year tradition in this country of doctors working directly for a patient, and finally, and I’d say most importantly, it turns upside down this American tradition of not having the government force on the consumers the notion of the purchase of a product. It’s for that and many other reasons that I join again with a chorus of others in urging the repeal of this bill. With that I’d yield back the balance of my time.”

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