[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 56 (Tuesday, April 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REGARDING THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I asked if I could 
borrow this display here which really should have minuses in front of 
all these numbers because essentially these companies had to file in 
their financial reports the losses that they will incur immediately as 
a result of the passage and signing into law of the health care reform 
bill.
  Now that's bad enough, but even worse was the initial response by 
this House to them following the law. And it was to receive a letter 
commanding their CEOs come before a committee of this House, a 
subcommittee of this House, with all of their internal documents as to 
how they could come up with this position.
  Now think about it. This is one of the concerns many of us expressed 
about having the government take over medical care in this country to 
the extent this bill allows it: if you criticize the government, you 
will be called to heel before a committee of the House.
  Now it is true that that call has been removed, but they have 
received a letter which told them the Congress will continue watching. 
This is not democracy. This is not independence. This is what we fought 
against.

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