[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 164 (Thursday, November 5, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2731]
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         ILLEGAL ALIEN LOOPHOLE IN PELOSI HEALTH CARE TAKEOVER

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 5, 2009

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday I joined my 
colleagues to comb through the Pelosi health care takeover. The 
takeover bill weighs in at 21 pounds and is 2,000 pages long. You would 
think in a bill that size, we would be able to find an adequate 
enforcement or citizenship verification system.
  Unfortunately, we did not. All we found were weak citizenship 
verification measures that will give illegal aliens easy access to 
health care benefits paid for by hard working taxpayers--with 
overcrowding of medical providers delaying services for legal citizens.
  In an effort to close this loophole, I am going to join Congressmen 
Nathan Deal, Dean Heller and Sam Johnson to present several amendments 
to the Rules Committee. Our amendments will prevent American taxpayers 
from being forced to finance benefits for illegal aliens by adding 
strong enforcement and verification provisions to the Pelosi health 
care takeover bill.
  I encourage the Rules Committee to accept our amendments to eliminate 
the loopholes for fraud and abuse.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September 11th in the Global War on Terrorism. I am grateful for the 
visit on Capitol Hill today by the Morristown Tea Party led by Jeff 
Weingarten who I visited last Sunday to encourage turnout in the New 
Jersey gubernatorial election Tuesday. With dedicated volunteers such 
as Synnove Bakke of East Brunswick, there was an historic turnout.