[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 165 (Thursday, December 20, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H7364]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         PLAN B HURTS EVERYBODY

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, as if the Speaker's Plan B were not 
bad enough--not extending unemployment benefits or fixing the SGR so 
seniors would continue to have their doctors, killing jobs, again 
threatening the full faith and credit of our country, and leaving the 
sequester cuts in place--last night the Republicans dug up the horrible 
reconciliation bill that they pushed through this House in May. They 
should have left it over in the Senate where it went to die a timely 
death.
  The reconciliation bill they will put up with it for a revote today 
is like Plan B, just worse. It will cut food stamps, eliminate the 
social services block grants, and weaken the consumer protections that 
we put in place. They can't help themselves. They'll make one more 
attempt to roll back much of the Affordable Care Act, including 
repealing the public health fund and funding for the exchanges, cutting 
the children's health insurance program, and taking away all of the 
Medicaid funding that was provided for the territories.
  Either way, these bills would hurt many people--poor, middle class 
Americans, children and seniors, all to save tax cuts for the wealthy. 
On November 6, Americans voted for us to work together to strengthen 
our country, not weaken it. These highly partisan bills will hurt our 
country, and no one should vote for either of them.

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