Marco Rubio: September 'Last Chance' to End Obama's Health Care Law

Responding to a constituent, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., insisted, when Congress returns to Washington in September, it will be the last chance to stop President Barack Obamas health care law. Rubio has been a vocal champion of defunding the law in recent weeks.

Our last chance, perhaps our last best chance, to put a brake on this Obamacare disaster is in September when we take up the short-term budget," Rubio said. And the only thing Im saying is we should not shut down the government, we should fund the government. The only thing we shouldnt fund as part of that budget is Obamacare. Thats all Im saying. And I think its unfortunate that the president is saying, Well, if you dont fund Obamacare, Ill shut down the government. Thats an unreasonable position, especially when so many of his former allies on Obamacare are now saying themselves, Lets walk away from it. Not conservative Republicans alone. Were talking about prominent labor unions, like the Teamsters, who have come out and said, Mr. President, Obamacare is breaking its promises. And he highlighted all the things that I pointed out earlier: people being moved to part-time, people losing their hours, people losing their jobs, their premiums going up. And the labor unions, the labor unions, traditional supporters of the Democrats and the president, are calling for Obamacare to be suspended or repealed.

In fact, heres the most ironic one," Rubio continued. The union that represents the workers at the IRS, theyre asking to be freed from Obamacare. Theyre asking that Obamacare not apply to them. And the irony, these are the same workers who are in charge of enforcing Obamacare. So what theyre basically saying is they want the power, the IRS does, to enforce Obamacare, but they dont want to have Obamacare for themselves. Thats not fair, and thats what Im fighting against, and I hope you understand that thats really what Im focused on. I am focused on the middle class. Its the middle class, thats the reason why Im fighting to defund Obamacare and stop this from moving further, and I hope I can convince as many of you to join us in that effort.