Frank Pallone (D-NJ) During Obamacare Hearing: 'I Will Not Yield to This Monkey Court'

[Tx4obama]

Dem. Rep. Goes Off During Obamacare Hearing: ‘I Will Not Yield to This Monkey Court’

During the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Affordable Care Act federal exchange website on Thursday morning, Representative Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) severely castigated Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) for inaccurately describing a privacy requirement in the law, eventually calling the entire hearing a “monkey court.”

Barton had just questioned Cheryl Campbell, the senior vice president of CGI, one of the two primary contractors that built the federal exchange website, about whether the privacy components of the site were compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which in part regulates privacy concerns in the health care industry.

“I started out in my opening statement saying there was no legitimacy to this hearing, and the last line of the questioning certainly confirms that,” Pallone said. “HIPAA only applies when there’s health information being provided. That’s not in play here today. No health information is required in the application process. And why is that? Because pre-existing conditions don’t matter. So once again, here we have my Republican colleagues trying to scare everybody—”

“Will the gentleman yield?” Barton interrupted.

“No, I will not yield to this monkey court or whatever this thing is,” Pallone responded.

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More here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-rep-goes-off-during-obamacare-hearing-i-will-not-yield-to-this-monkey-court/

[gopiscrap]

1. excellent

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Cue Republican OUTRAGE that Dems don't CARE about being civil....

Then chalk this up as a VICTORY because they pissed off a "Liberal".

[drynberg]

7. The GOP interrupter was NOT being CIVIL.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. IOKIYAR to be a complete snot.

[IrishAyes]

3. Hooray for Pallone!

[blackspade]

4. Big K&R!

[PA Democrat]

5. It would be great if these Republican goons had to apply for private insurance

under the existing system. Then they could experience the appalling intrusion into private medical records that many of us had endured in the past.

[scmoore120]

6. it seems they always try to stop what is being said when they can't control it.