'Are You Serious?' Lawmakers Spar at ObamaCare Hearing

FOX NEWS INSIDER - Fireworks erupted between New Jersey Democrat Bill Pascrell and Arkansas Republican Tim Griffin during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the ObamaCare rollout.

Pascrell shouted, “What are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with pre-existing conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage? You want to go back? You want to say you are no longer covered?”

Griffin responded, saying, “It’s a false choice to say it’s ObamaCare or nothing.” He then pointed to a proposal that he co-sponsored dealing with pre-existing conditions.

Pascrell blasted back, “Are you serious?! […] After what we have gone through in the last three and a half years? You can sit there and say that you had a legitimate alternative?! We’ve gone through 44 votes, 48 votes now of you trying to dismantle this legislation.”  

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Dem Rep. Jumps Out of Chair, Explodes at GOP’ers During Obamacare Hearing

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) rose from his seat on Tuesday during a congressional hearing into the Affordable Care Act’s problematic roll-out. He accused his Republican colleagues in the House of dishonestly seeking to identify the problems with the ACA because they would prefer to see it repealed entirely. 

Pascrell began by insisting that, even though Democrats opposed Medicare Part D in the Bush Era, they worked to make sure that the program was a success.

He became animated as he said that Democrats put aside their opposition to Bush in order to make a policy objective work for the good of the American public. “And how many of you stood up to do that,” Pascrell said exploding out of his chair. “None. Zero.”

“What are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with preexisting conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage,” Pascrell asked his Republican colleagues. “We want to go back and want to say you are no longer covered any longer. Are you going to tell the parents of those kids?”

Pascrell blew up at Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AR) who insisted that the GOP has put forward a number of proposals to ensure that low-income people in need of care receive it.

“Are you really serious?” Pascrell shot back. “After what we’ve gone through and what we’ve gone through in the last three and a half years?”

“We’ve gone through 44 votes, 48 votes now of you trying to dismantle the legislation,” he concluded. “You call that cooperation?”

Watch the clip below via C-SPAN 3:

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[VIDEO] Dem congressman: GOP may be on 'hallucinetic drugs'

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), in fiery remarks on the House floor Tuesday, suggested that Republicans might be under the influence of “hallucinetic drugs.”

“We’re dealing with dangerous people,” Pascrell said. “Either they’re on hallucinetic drugs or they just lost their minds. This is what we’re dealing with.”

(“Hallucinetic” is used by some as an synonym for “hallucinogenic.” The remark occurs around the 9:00 mark of the video below.)

Pascrell added that Republicans are negotiating with a gun to Democrats’ heads — echoing language used by the White House.

“I’m from Paterson, New Jersey,” Pascrell said. “You never put a gun to my head; I got news for ya.”

Via: Washington Post

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