Ranking Member Cohen: Supreme Court Right to Not Hear Yet Another Case Undermining the Affordable Care Act

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement hailing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear a case, Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, on the Constitution’s “Origination Clause” and its impact on the Affordable Care Act.

“This morning, the Supreme Court rightly refused to consider the overreaching argument that the central provision of the Affordable Care Act, the individual mandate, was an unconstitutional tax that violated the Constitution’s Origination Clause, an argument rejected by every lower federal court that considered it,” said Congressman Cohen. “I am frustrated that Republicans on the House Judiciary Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee wasted precious time and resources last week to hold yet another hearing on this meritless argument in their latest attempt to use the Court to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act. The Republican House has now voted 62 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a law that has helped over 11 million Americans obtain health insurance, including over 200,000 Tennesseans, during this year’s open enrollment period alone. The Republicans should instead be holding hearings on civil rights and police shootings and moving the Voting Rights Amendment Act which would restore the Voting Rights Act to its full effectiveness.”