This
week a bill was introduced in Congress to approve fast-track procedures for
several new trade pacts. These agreements would have immense benefits for
California and the entire country. I wrote in support of the bill here.
Separately,
the Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.
I
spoke to Fox News this week about the ongoing investigation into the Benghazi
attack. You can read the article and watch a video clip here.
Separately,
the Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.
I’d
like to share links with you to some of my recent media appearances:
·
TV
interview with Sean Hannity on ObamaCare: here
·
TV
interview with Jake Tapper on ObamaCare: here
·
TV
interview with Megyn Kelly on the Benghazi attack: here
·
Radio
interview with Ray Appleton and John Batchelor on the Iran nuclear deal: here
You
can find links to other interviews as well as this week’s updated Nunes Digest
on my website here.
I
will be on the Chris Daniel radio show today at 3:00 pm PST to discuss the
investigation into the Benghazi attack. You can listen on KMJ 580 AM here. I also
discussed this issue on Fox and Friends here,
and before that on Special Report here.
Yesterday
President Obama announced yet another major change to ObamaCare, allowing
insurance companies to reinstate policies that ObamaCare itself forced them to
cancel. This adds to a fast-growing list of ObamaCare “fixes” that were
unilaterally decreed by the Obama administration, including the delay of the
employer mandate and a slew of short-term exemptions to various ObamaCare rules
that were awarded to select companies and unions.
Consider
the current situation: millions of people who were told they could keep their
healthcare plans have had those plans cancelled; millions more are unable to
sign up for new plans on the malfunctioning website of the ObamaCare exchanges
even though they will soon be fined if they don’t somehow get a plan; those who
do manage to access the exchanges are realizing they must get coverage for
unnecessary services such as maternity care for men; and businesses have
downgraded workers from full-time to part-time status in order to avoid ObamaCare
mandates.
My
friends, this is no way to run a government. The president cannot purport to
remake one-sixth of the U.S. economy, throw people off their healthcare plans,
drown businesses in a sea of impossible regulations, and then assume the authority
to enforce, not enforce, or change the law at will. This does grievous harm to
individual Americans, to the healthcare system, and to our tradition of
governance based on the rule of law. We live in a constitutional republic, not
an autocracy where the law is whatever the monarch says it is.
The
Obama administration’s mania for controlling the healthcare sector has created
a crisis so profound that even convinced ObamaCare supporters in the
president’s own party are speaking out. But the damage cannot be repaired by
more administrative fixes. Democrats can still protect ObamaCare in Congress,
but their willingness to do so is weakening with every new ObamaCare disaster.
We must continue to chip away at this overreaching, ill-conceived law until it
is repealed entirely and replaced with free-market reforms that work. For
reform ideas that some colleagues and I have proposed, see here.
Separately,
I appeared on Fox News’ Special Report yesterday to discuss the investigation
into the attack on Benghazi. You can watch the video here.
I’ll be speaking with KMJ’s Chris Daniel today at
3:00 pm PST about a letter I sent to Speaker Boehner regarding the
investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. You can listen to the Chris Daniel show here, and you can
read the letter here.
For more information, see:
·
CNN article and video here.
·
Fox News Special Report video here,
and a Special Report panel discussion (beginning at the 22:40 mark) here.
·
Daily Beast
article by Eli Lake here.
