Repealing Obamacare And Defunding Planned Parenthood

Press Conference

Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) at a press conference today touted the importance of the upcoming vote on reconciliation to repeal Obamacare and defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

Below are Scalise's remarks:

"Today's going to be an important day in the House where we finally have the opportunity to pass a bill that will end up on President Obama's desk that guts Obamacare and that defunds Planned Parenthood. This is something we've set out to do in 2015 at the beginning of this Congress.

"We said we're going to pass a budget for the first time in years, actually get a reconciliation process between the House and the Senate where we can use this tool that you only get once a year with narrow constraints, but with a powerful ability to get a bill to the President's desk with 51 votes in the Senate -- not 60 where the Senate can filibuster, where Harry Reid can filibuster, but where we can actually move important policy to the President's desk. And we made a commitment as Republicans that we would focus on Obamacare. And then, of course, as the year went on, the country saw the horrific videos and what Planned Parenthood was doing to use taxpayer money to sell body parts.

"And we said we're going to put that in the bill as well and the tools allowed us to do it and we've worked very closely with the pro- life movement. This is an important victory for the pro-life movement, as well as for conservatives all across the country who want to see the President confronted with a bill that not only guts Obamacare, makes him confront the problems that Americans are facing all around the country with his failed law, but also the ability then, to defund Planned Parenthood as well and have recorded votes in the House and Senate, but also have a bill on the President's desk that he has to decide whether he's going to sign or veto.

"So it's going to be an important vote in the House today. It's going to be an important decision for the President to confront where he can't change the subject, talk about other issues like he tries to do with gun control and other things. He's going to actually have to confront this issue and that bill will be on his desk because of the work that was initiated by the House, this House majority, to get to the president's desk."

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