In 2010, while still a member of the House of Representatives, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., signed the Club for Growth’s “Repeal-It” pledge, which read: “I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010 …” That same year, he also co-sponsored the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.

On June 28, 2012, after being appointed to the Senate and in the midst of an election campaign, Heller issued a statement that then-President Barack Obama’s “job-killing healthcare law” was hurting Nevada families and businesses and declared that “This onerous law needs to be repealed and replaced.”