Tea partiers on tour stop at Texas Capitol call for defunding of Affordable Care Act
A tea party group on a national tour stopped by the Texas Capitol on Wednesday to call on Congress to gut the funding for the Affordable Care Act.
Jenny Beth Martin of Atlanta, the national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, and Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Reston, Va.-based conservative organization ForAmerica, led a group of speakers who encouraged Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to stand with the Senate’s most conservative members — such as the other Texas Republican in the Senate, Ted Cruz — to defund the Affordable Care Act, which is often called “Obamacare.”
“The only way to stop the train wreck is for John Cornyn and other Republicans in Congress to stand up and say ‘enough,’ ” Bozell said at press conference, which took place under the hot sun on the south steps of the Capitol. “We are not going to force the American people to pay for this train wreck.”
Cornyn had signed onto — and later removed his name from — a recent letter by Cruz and several other conservative senators in which they promised to oppose any appropriations or continuing resolutions that would dedicate money to the Affordable Care Act.
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