[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 17, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3449]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        LEGISLATIVE MALPRACTICE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the President's chief of staff said, ``You 
never want a serious crisis to go to waste. It's an opportunity to do 
things that you think you could not do before.''
  In other words, the administration and this Congress are exploiting 
our financial crisis, inserting many of their political-agenda items 
into the massive spending bills without due deliberation: items like 
repeal of welfare reform; like the comparative effectiveness board that 
will lead to rationed health care; like electricity rate decoupling, 
which increases electricity prices as people use less energy; like 
easing Cuba travel restrictions; like mandating Davis-Bacon for all 
contract projects in the country; like killing school choice for poor 
kids in Washington; and parts of government-run health care and the 
cap-and-trade energy taxes and more and more.
  Without one Member of the House reading these 1,100-page-plus bills, 
Mr. Speaker, this is legislative malpractice.

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