[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1443-H1444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        JOB KILLING HEALTH CARE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, this week we are going to be taking up, we

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think, a job killing so-called health care reform bill that the 
American people do not want but that the Democratic leadership and the 
President are determined to cram down our throats.
  This bill will not help our situation in terms of health care or 
health insurance. It does not reduce the cost of health insurance which 
was one of the goals the President said that he wanted. It does not 
solve any of the problems that we need to solve in health care. In 
fact, it makes those problems worse.
  Yesterday I had a town hall in Statesville, North Carolina, with 
about 175 people there. They are very upset about this proposed health 
care reform bill. They understand that a lot of dirty tricks are being 
played here, and they don't like it. They don't like several aspects of 
the proposal that is being brought forth this week.
  Number one, they don't like the fact that the Democrats are proposing 
to pass this bill without voting on the bill. They know that goes from 
passing bills without reading them to passing bills without voting for 
them. Another thing that they don't like is they don't like to see two 
bills that have no relationship to each other put together because one 
of the bills can't pass on its own and so the folks in charge attach it 
to a bill that they can get the votes for.
  And so what the majority people are doing is they are going to latch 
onto their reconciliation bill a job-killing government takeover of 
student loans. They are attaching that to their job-killing government 
takeover of health care which many people have called a monstrosity.
  This is not the way the American people want us to be operating in 
this Congress. We are the greatest country in the world with the best 
form of government in the world. But what is about to happen this week, 
if the American people do not speak out even louder than they have 
spoken out, is you are going to see Democrats vote for this monstrosity 
and undermine the rule of law that exists in this country. It is a 
scary proposition.
  Republicans know that we need reform in health insurance and in 
health care, and we have made proposals to do that. We have legislation 
that will reduce cost in health insurance. The plan that the Democrats 
have put forward will not reduce cost. Even one of their Senators, Dick 
Durbin, said that last week on the floor of the Senate.
  The bill also does not allow people to continue the current health 
insurance that they have which the President has been saying you could 
do. In his meeting with Republicans at our retreat, he admitted that he 
had been saying that incorrectly. He is still saying it even though he 
said it was incorrect because you will not be allowed to keep your 
insurance if you like it.
  Republicans want for Americans to be able to buy their health care 
across State lines. We want medical liability reform. We want to expand 
health savings accounts. We want to put Americans in charge of their 
health care and in charge of their health insurance. We don't want a 
giant government takeover of health insurance and health care. This can 
be done to help Americans, but what the Democrats are proposing will 
not be the right thing to do.
  I serve on the Rules Committee. They are planning to bring a rule 
that will say if you vote for the rule, you voted for the bill. That 
has never happened in the history of this country. Again, it undermines 
the rule of law and the American people will not stand for it.

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