[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 157 (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H11813-H11814]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ROSKAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, if you are from the northwest suburbs of 
Chicago, today you woke up and you

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looked at the Chicago Tribune and you read an article that said your 
property taxes are going to go up 20 percent. If you turned on the 
radio, you probably heard folks talking in Chicagoland about 
unemployment at 10.5 percent in Illinois, a number that we have not 
seen since the early 1980s. If you have been listening to the debate in 
Washington, D.C., in the past couple of weeks, you have been hearing 
about this crushing debt that is coming on you, your children, and your 
grandchildren.
  I went this afternoon to the Bureau of the Public Debt in downtown 
Washington and watched within a twinkling of an eye $44 billion that 
was borrowed on a 2-year note. That type of attitude and the attitude 
of spending and spending and spending is becoming weary for the folks 
that I represent in the Sixth District of Illinois.
  It's time for this Congress to discipline itself and come up with a 
health care plan that meets people's needs but doesn't break the bank.

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