[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FROM HEALTH CARE REFORM TO WALL STREET REFORM

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Well, you've got to give it to my friends on the 
Republican side of the aisle. They are incredibly consistent. They have 
sided with the big pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry. 
Sadly, they lost that debate, but they want to revisit it with the 
changes we made in health care and some of the outrageous health 
insurance practices we outlawed, like preexisting condition exclusions, 
rescissions of your policy when you get sick, and nonrenewal when you 
get sick.
  But they're also fighting to change the subject here, because they're 
also trying to stop the reform on Wall Street. Their biggest patrons 
are the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, and Wall 
Street. And they just want to protect the status quo for those folks.
  Over on the other side of the Hill, the Republicans in the Senate are 
blocking financial reform--reform of Wall Street, doing away with the 
abuses that crashed our economy and put millions out of work. And every 
single House Republican voted against reforming Wall Street here on the 
floor of the House. Well, two were absent but all those who voted, 
voted against it. Now they want to change the subject back to health 
care, except they lost that debate, too.

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