(Above: Sen. Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate)
WASHINGTON – On Monday afternoon, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to make the argument for action to be taken against President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care reform law, otherwise known as ObamaCare.
Sessions went through all the flaws of the law and pointed out that the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has done nothing to rectify its shortcomings.
“[T]his year, the Senate has done nothing, done absolutely nothing,” Sessions said. “Every attempt to bring up, to fix, to confront the serious problems with this bill have been blocked by the Senate Democratic majority led by Sen. [Harry] Reid. And that’s just a fact. The House has passed repeated bills to confront this problem and try to fix this problem. And they’ve now sent over a bill from the House that funds the government of the United States and replaces this bill, this health care proposal, with another framework for improving health care in America.”
Sessions criticized Obama for his willingness to negotiate with hostile world leaders while refusing to do the same with Republicans in Congress.
“[W]hat does [the president] say? He says, ‘Well, I’ll talk with [Vladimir] Putin, negotiate with him. I’ll negotiate with Assad. I’ll negotiate with Iran. But I won’t even talk with anyone in the United States Congress about fixing this health care bill that’s clearly unworkable and, as one of our Democratic members said, ‘a train wreck.’”
“No change, not one jot, not one tittle of my health care will be changed. What is he saying there? ‘I’ll shut down the government before I’ll allow a change in my perfect health care bill,’” Sessions continued. “So I want to raise the question, who is causing the problem in this country? Who is the one that’s refusing to fix an obviously failed health care bill that needs major reform? It’s the president of the United States and the majority in the Senate.”
Sessions encouraged the American people to engage and perhaps persuade Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C. to come to the bargaining table.
“I just want to say, we need to understand what’s happened. It’s time for us to fix this bill and make some fundamental changes in it,” he said. “And all we’re having and hearing from the White House is, ‘No, sir,’ not one change will they accept. ‘We won’t even have serious negotiations about it.’ That’s unacceptable. And it needs to change, and I hope in the next few days the American people can become engaged and perhaps our colleagues will see it differently.”
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