[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, for more than 1 year, Congress and 
the administration have failed to make health care reform a reality.
  The 2,700-page bill, which can only pass through convoluted, inside-
the-Beltway shenanigans, has over $500 billion in tax increases, not to 
mention the $500 billion in Medicare cuts that come with that increase, 
which jeopardizes million of seniors' existing health care coverage. 
And this bill includes millions of dollars in cuts to home health care 
for the elderly, millions of dollars in cuts for Alzheimer's programs, 
millions of dollars in cuts for food for seniors programs.
  This bill makes no sense for America's families, no sense for 
America's seniors, and it is a fiscal time bomb for future generations.
  I do not want to leave a legacy of debt to my granddaughter, Morgan 
Elizabeth.
  In Congress' scramble to get any kind of bill passed, regardless of 
its cost or impact, they have taken the wrong approach. We can do 
better.

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