[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H2985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HAVE FAITH IN AMERICA'S FUTURE

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in this Chamber, Prime Minister 
Gordon Brown talked to us about having faith in the future, and that, 
in fact, is what America's always been about, having faith that the 
future will be better for all of us. But it's impossible for the 
American people to have faith in the future, faith in their future when 
the next illness or accident could drive them into bankruptcy or, in 
fact, could end their lives because they have insufficient access to 
quality, affordable health care.
  This Congress and this administration is committed to changing that. 
We are committed to making sure that health care is a right that every 
American can exercise. And we have already taken the first steps in 
this Congress, by expanding SCHIP, by providing assistance to the 
States to provide more Medicaid, and finally, by developing the 
infrastructure, by investing in that health care infrastructure that 
will help make a system that can provide quality, accessible health 
care to everyone. That's what restoring faith in the future means to 
this Congress.
  And this afternoon, when President Obama convenes his first health 
care summit, we will begin to take the steps, as a Nation, to develop 
the kind of health care system we all can be proud of and that will 
bring faith in the future to every American.

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