[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, look, I'm surprised when I go home. My 
constituents will tell me unequivocally that they're in favor of health 
care reform, but they're not in favor of this plan. And yet I come to 
Washington, and they say, if you're in favor of health care reform, you 
have to buy into this sham of a health care bill. Well, my constituents 
know what a sham is and, unfortunately, it's this Senate bill that the 
House is going to be voting on.
  Then I read headlines that the Speaker of the House doesn't actually 
want a vote on the Senate bill, and I recall the basics of 
parliamentary procedure that require the House to vote on the exact 
same bill the Senate does before it can be signed by the President to 
be enacted into law. So the Democrats are just trying to pull a fast 
one on the American people.
  The American people know that this is a bad deal. According to the 
Congressional Budget Office, run by a Democrat, they're right to be 
worried, because premiums will go up between 10 and 13 percent under 
this plan. That means $2,100 more for the average family in America in 
health care expenses. It's a wrong plan, and we should oppose it.

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