[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1457]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. The utter hypocrisy of the debate about process is 
absolutely astonishing. I just learned that Speaker Hastert used the 
technique of a self-executing rule 113 times. Then we hear the 
Republicans attack reconciliation--which really means a majority of 
votes--and yet call for an up-or-down vote in the House.
  News flash: People in the real world don't care about self-executing 
rules or reconciliation and don't even know what it is.
  What they do care about process is the process of the insurance 
companies. Not the process of reconciliation, the process of 
rescission, which means canceling policies when you get cancer; the 
process of refusing a child who has asthma; the process of raising 
prices 39 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent, for your insurance policy.
  We each have the opportunity in the next few days to be on the right 
or wrong side of history. We can either stand with the American people 
or with the insurance companies. I hope that the vast majority of us 
stick with the American people.

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