IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 333 
Expressing the firm conviction of the House of Representatives that any 
continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase it may approve for the 
duration of the 113th Congress shall affirmatively include a provision 
specifically prohibiting the expenditure of any Federal funds in support 
of or in implementation or effectuation or enforcement of any provision 
of the Affordable Care Act (‘‘ObamaCare’’). 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 2, 2013 
Mr. STOCKMAN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways 
and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the firm conviction of the House of Representa-
tives that any continuing resolution or debt ceiling in-
crease it may approve for the duration of the 113th 
Congress shall affirmatively include a provision specifi-
cally prohibiting the expenditure of any Federal funds 
in support of or in implementation or effectuation or 
enforcement of any provision of the Affordable Care Act 
(‘‘ObamaCare’’). 
Whereas every Representative solemnly swore to support and 
defend the Constitution of the United States against all 
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domestic enemies, and bear true faith and allegiance to 
the same, and freely took said obligation before God; 
Whereas a majority of Representatives believes the Affordable 
Care Act (‘‘ObamaCare’’) violates the Constitution in 
sundry ways, and its implementation and enforcement 
would deprive American citizens of cherished funda-
mental constitutional rights; 
Whereas in addition to its organic constitutional infirmities, 
at least one Administrative Rule promulgated pursuant to 
ObamaCare has further harmed the constitutional rights 
of citizens by attacking religious liberties guaranteed by 
the First Amendment to our constitution for over two 
centuries, said liberties being once held sacrosanct by this 
body; 
Whereas the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution already 
passed by this House of Representatives wisely and ap-
propriately presumed the defunding of ObamaCare subse-
quent to and pursuant to a more sober consideration of 
its rash and sweeping provisions, free from the hysteria 
and parochial politics of the moment of its passing, which 
sober consideration revealed ObamaCare’s many and now 
manifest kinks, flaws, deficiencies, and inadequacies, both 
constitutional and logistical; 
Whereas a bipartisan majority of Representatives voted to re-
peal ObamaCare on May 16, 2013; 
Whereas a majority of Representatives supports the provision 
of the House Republicans’ 2010 ‘‘Pledge to America’’ 
that promises, in no uncertain terms, ‘‘We will repeal 
President Obama’s government takeover of health care’’; 
Whereas a majority of Representatives remains committed to 
the ‘‘Repealing Obamacare’’ Plank of the 2012 Repub-
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lican Party Platform, which states, in pertinent part: 
‘‘We agree with the four dissenting justices of the Su-
preme Court: ‘In our view the entire Act before us is in-
valid in its entirety.’ . . . Obamacare has been struck 
down in the court of public opinion and is falling by the 
weight of its own confusing, unworkable, budget-busting, 
and conflicting provisions. . . . If fully implemented, it 
could not function; . . . Congressional Republicans are 
committed to its repeal’’; 
Whereas a majority of Representatives shares the Speaker’s 
view that ObamaCare is a ‘‘monstrosity’’ that will ‘‘ruin 
the best health care system in the world and bankrupt 
this country’’, that it is ‘‘driving up the cost of health in-
surance, denying people access to quality care, and killing 
jobs in America’’, and asks, as the Speaker has asked, 
‘‘How can you provide subsidies through these health ex-
changes without verifying people’s income? I mean our 
job is to protect the American people, is to spend their 
taxpayer money wisely. I think it’s wide open for abuse’’; 
Whereas a majority of Representatives supports the pledge 
twice expressed by the Speaker in July 2013 regarding 
the funding of ObamaCare: ‘‘We’re going to do every-
thing we can to make sure it never happens, and fur-
ther’’, ‘‘[We will] do everything we can to make sure this 
doesn’t really go into effect. We will continue to do every-
thing we can to defund it . . . and to make sure that the 
American people aren’t put through this horrific experi-
ence’’; 
Whereas notwithstanding the oft-repeated ‘‘guarantee’’ pre-
viously expressed by President Obama that citizens will 
definitely be able to keep their present doctors after the 
implementation of ObamaCare, the Department of 
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Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently an-
nounced ‘‘you MAY be able to keep your current doctor’’ 
(emphasis supplied), thereby conceding that the Presi-
dent’s promise to the citizenry has not been kept, and 
that the legislation contains no such guarantee; 
Whereas the Presidential Administration’s recent decision to 
delay ObamaCare’s employer mandate and eligibility 
verification for individual exchanges constitutes a tacit 
admission that ObamaCare is, in the words of the Chair-
man of the Senate Committee on Finance, at best, a 
‘‘train wreck’’ not yet ready for prime time, and more 
likely, an imminent disaster; 
Whereas the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports (1) 
the Federal Government will spend $48 billion in 2014— 
and nearly $1.8 trillion through 2023—on ObamaCare’s 
new entitlement programs, (2) the Presidential Adminis-
tration has requested more than $400 million in funding 
and nearly 2,000 bureaucrats for the IRS to implement 
the individual mandate and 46 other statutory provisions 
in the law, (3) executive branch agencies’ bureaucrats 
have already written more than 20,000 pages of 
ObamaCare-related rules and notices published in the 
Federal Register, and (4) CBO estimates ObamaCare will 
raise individual health insurance premiums by $2,100 per 
year; 
Whereas the current ObamaCare statute is no longer the le-
gitimate product of the legislative voice of the American 
people, having been rewritten by the two branches of gov-
ernment least accountable to those people, inasmuch as 
the President has used and continues to use myriad waiv-
ers and delays to alter various sections of the legislation 
to suit his own policy and political objectives, and the 
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court having flagrantly dis-
regarded the position of the people that ObamaCare is 
not a product of the taxing power; 
Whereas the House of the people should not force the Amer-
ican citizenry to fund ObamaCare if the Presidential Ad-
ministration will not enforce the law as written; 
Whereas inasmuch as the House of Representatives cannot 
control the actions of the United States Senate or the 
President, and has no power to prevent the Senate or the 
President from shutting down the government if either 
chooses to do so by refusing to approve or sign a Con-
tinuing Resolution, passed by the House of Representa-
tives, that will fund the government’s operations and sat-
isfy its obligations to it citizenry and others; 
Whereas the Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate 
has had sixty (60) or more Members for only four 
months of the last 34 years, and Congressional Demo-
crats exploited that anomalous window in the 111th Con-
gress to pass ObamaCare; 
Whereas the Republican Conference of the United States 
Senate has not had sixty (60) or more Members since the 
61st Congress adjourned sine die in the year of our Lord 
1911 and therefore the ‘‘outright repeal’’ of ObamaCare 
must be presumed to be nigh unto an electoral impos-
sibility, irrespective of how favorable the next election is 
to Republican Senate candidates; 
Whereas the only means by which ObamaCare can be halted 
is for the Congress to exercise its ‘‘power of the purse’’ 
to defund it, and thereby effect constructive repeal; and 
Whereas defunding ObamaCare will become more complicated 
and difficult to achieve after October 1, 2013 (the date 
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enrollment for the Medicaid expansion and exchange sub-
sidies begins) and especially after January 1, 2014 (the 
date those new entitlement programs are scheduled to 
take effect, and Americans will be forced either to buy a 
product or pay tax penalties administered by the IRS): 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That for the balance of the 113th Congress, 
the House of Representatives shall pass no bill or resolu-
tion that continues appropriations in the event of a lapse 
in appropriations or increases the borrowing authority re-
lating to the public debt limit (or suspends or terminates 
the debt ceiling) unless said resolution contains a provision 
affirmatively and specifically prohibiting the expenditure 
of any Federal funds (whether such expenditure be discre-
tionary or mandatory) to implement or enforce any provi-
sion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
(Public Law 111–148) or title I or subtitle B of title II 
of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 
2010 (Public Law 111–152). 
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