[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REPEAL HEALTH CARE BILL WITH REAL REFORM

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, today, the liberal editors of the 
Washington Post state in their lead editorial that the current 
trajectory of entitlement spending will bankrupt the country. On the 
facing page, conservative commentator George Will calls America's 
entitlement programs a Ponzi scheme and ``a teetering tower of 
unkeepable promises.'' Indeed, this is the true crisis in American 
health care.
  We have already made over $100 trillion in entitlement promises we 
can't keep. But what Congress has just done is not reform. It does not 
bend the cost curve. It does not reform entitlements. It just makes 
more promises that can't be kept. ObamaCare pours gasoline on the fire 
of our entitlement crisis.
  This Congress has squandered an opportunity to save and strengthen 
America's safety net. When they should have put on the brakes, they put 
their foot on the accelerator. We need to repeal this terrible bill and 
replace it in a bipartisan way with real reform.

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