Providing for Consideration of H. Res. 370, National Park Service Operations, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014; Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. 71, District of Columbia Continuing Appropriations Resoltuion, 2014; Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. 72, Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014; Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. 73, National Institutes of Health Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014; Providing for Consideration of H.R. 3230, Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act; And Providing for Consideration of Motions to Suspend the Ruls

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Mr. RICE of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, the last speaker for the minority was complaining of these small continuing resolutions because they pick and choose which groups will get funded. That is our exact problem with putting this Affordable Care Act into place--the President's picking and choosing. We hear it's the law of the land; but, actually, the President is deciding what parts of the law of the land he wants to put in place. He says he is for the working man, and he says he is for the middle class; but, in fact, he has exempted Big Business, and he has exempted many of his friends in the unions and so forth.

So if this law is so wonderful and if we are going to put it in place and if, as you're saying, we want a whole CR that funds the whole government, let's put the whole thing in place that funds every aspect the law was designed to apply to. Let's put the whole law in effect. If it's the law of the land, let's treat it like the law of the land with no exemptions and no waivers. Let's put it into effect exactly like it's written.

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