[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 165 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H12553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Ms. FALLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FALLIN. Mr. Speaker, if we pass Speaker Pelosi's 1,990-page bill, 
which creates a massive new Federal bureaucracy to manage our health 
care system, States will face huge unfunded mandates.
  The $34 billion worth of unfunded mandates to the States in this bill 
might help hide the true cost of this $1.3 trillion legislation, but 
the truth is the States will be picking up a lot of these costs. And 
the only way States could deal with the increased costs and the 
unfunded mandates would be to look at raising taxes on small businesses 
and on individuals, and that is unacceptable.
  Speaker Pelosi may be all right with increasing the national debt and 
spending up to $1.4 trillion on this legislation, but when the bill 
comes due, the children of America and their children will be the ones 
who will be paying a hefty price for reckless spending in this 
Congress.
  It is estimated that this Pelosi health care bill will cost Oklahoma 
$127 million a year in unfunded mandates. In our State of Oklahoma, 
we're required to balance our budget each year.
  Let's kill this bill because it will be bad for the States and bad 
for unfunded State mandates.

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