[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MARCHANT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MARCHANT. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong objection to what 
occurred yesterday in the Budget Committee. The Budget Committee passed 
a shell of a reconciliation bill. This shell bill will be replaced with 
whatever the Rules Committee deems as appropriate health care 
legislation. No one has seen what the Rules Committee plans to insert.
  This is not an open and transparent process. An open and transparent 
process wouldn't be resorting to using shell bills. An open and 
transparent process wouldn't have had backroom negotiations that are 
far and away from the C-SPAN cameras. What happened in the Budget 
Committee and what's happening in the Rules Committee is not what the 
American people want.
  I strongly oppose the majority's use of the parliamentary gimmicks to 
pass big government takeover of health care.

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