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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1230 

Commending the efforts of State legislatures, Attorneys General, and citizens 

to resist the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable 

Care Act. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 25, 2010 

Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. CULBERSON, Mrs. 

BLACKBURN, Mr. JONES, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. GOHMERT, and Mr. 

GARY G. MILLER of California) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Commending the efforts of State legislatures, Attorneys General, and citizens to resist the implementation of the 

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

Whereas the expanding Federal Government is encroaching 

on the rights constitutionally reserved for the States and 

individuals; 

Whereas the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act attempts to regulate inactivity rather than an activity of 

United States citizens and the Constitution does not 

grant the Federal Government the power to regulate inactivity; 


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Whereas Congress has never before considered, prior to the 

individual mandate, legislation that would require citizens 

to purchase a private good; 

Whereas if Congress has this authority under the Constitution, there is virtually no limit to its power to micromanage the lives of our citizens; 

Whereas the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates an entirely new Federal entitlement program, while 

the growing cost of existing Federal entitlement programs are already crippling future generations with 

mountains of debt; 

Whereas the legislatures of more than three-fourths of all the 

States, including those of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, 

Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, 

Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, 

Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, 

North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 

Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, 

Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and 

Wisconsin, have proposed legislation reaffirming their 

10th Amendment right to rule and govern in areas not 

specifically delegated to the Federal Government by the 

Constitution; 

Whereas many of the bills proposed by the State legislatures 

recognize that numerous actions by Congress are weakening States rights through legislation like the Patient 

Protection and Affordable Care Act; 

Whereas more than a dozen state Attorneys General, including those from Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 


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Utah, Virginia, and Washington, have filed or announced 

their intention to file lawsuits challenging Congress’s authority to force citizens to buy health insurance; 

Whereas numerous doctors’ groups, such as New Jersey Physicians Inc., and individuals around the country have or 

are preparing to file suit against this unconstitutional 

law; and 

Whereas 54 percent of Americans oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and 56 percent of Americans think the Federal Government has become so large 

and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the 

rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) commends the efforts of State legislatures, 

3 Attorneys General, and citizens to resist the uncon4 stitutional implementation of the Patient Protection 

5 and Affordable Care Act; and 

6 (2) applauds these groups’ endeavors to protect 

7 the rights and the interests of American citizens. 

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