On the Senate floor today, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., urged his colleagues to repeal the highly unpopular health care law.

Excerpts of Chambliss’ floor speech are below. His speech can be viewed in its entirety here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paGFe5xm_3w

We need a law that replaces this law and actually reduces health care costs and enacts insurance reforms immediately. Americans should be allowed to buy insurance policies across state lines; small businesses should be allowed to pool resources to offer more affordable insurance to workers; and we should also limit baseless lawsuits against doctors, and expand health savings accounts.

Furthermore, in light of recent judicial decisions in Virginia and Florida, it appears that the law may not be upheld in the courts. I applaud the decisions reached by Judge Hudson and Judge Vinson that Congress does not have the authority to force Americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty for not doing so. That provision of the law will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.

I plan to vote on repealing this law and working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to start the process over and to make sure we do this in the open – not behind closed doors – and that we get it right.

Chambliss is a co-sponsor of legislation to repeal the health care law.