[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2266]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TITUS. Madam Speaker, yesterday marked a historic day as 
President Obama signed the reform legislation that will give families 
more control over their health care and the same kind of choices that 
Members of Congress have.
  Yet before the ink was even dry on the President's signature, 
Republicans pledged they would repeal health care reform if given the 
opportunity. Reform that will end discrimination from preexisting 
conditions, Republicans would repeal it. Reform that will close the 
prescription drug doughnut hole that so many seniors fall into, 
Republicans would repeal it. Reform that will give the largest health 
care tax cut in history to families and small businesses to purchase 
insurance, Republicans would repeal it.
  Yesterday we took an important step forward with commonsense reform 
that will improve coverage for over 1.1 million people in southern 
Nevada. Nevada's families cannot afford a return to the status quo of 
skyrocketing costs, of living every day with the fear that they are 
just one illness or one injury away from losing it all. We cannot 
repeal that.

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