[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8909]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.
  Also, I have a parliamentary inquiry.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Lujan). The gentleman will state it.
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, this chart that I have here, I have been 
banned, as a Member of Congress, from mailing this to my constituents 
or just disseminating it.
  Is it within the rules of the House, an order of the House for me to 
be allowed to present this chart here at this time on the floor of the 
House of Representatives?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's chart has not drawn any 
objection.
  Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. MICA. I made that parliamentary inquiry because Members of 
Congress have been banned from distributing this chart which shows the 
Obama Democrat health care plan. Now, anytime you can get a bill from 
Congress and it proposes creating new agencies or activities, and in 
this case a health care reform, and you chart it, it tells a lot.
  Once we charted this health care proposal, Members of Congress were 
banned from disseminating this chart. So, Mr. Speaker, this may be the 
only opportunity my constituents have to see this.
  Last week, we asked with the stimulus package, Where are the jobs? 
This week we ask with the health care plan, Where are the reforms? 
There are over 53 new agencies, bureaucracies, and bureaucrats added in 
this health care so-called reform. I want health care reform. The 
American people want health care reform. But I don't think this is the 
reform that they asked for.

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