[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8989]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            AMERICA NEEDS ECONOMICALLY RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask how the Republicans 
will provide health care to millions of uninsured and unemployed 
Americans through the majority's Hire Our Workers program. American 
families are facing over 2 million jobs lost since January 2001, 
outsourcing of jobs overseas by companies that do not seem to care 
about hard-working Americans, and a political party that has dropped 
the ball on education, seniors, and health care.
  It is ironic, then, that the acronym of the Republican plan is H-O-W. 
Tell me, Mr. Speaker, how do they plan to provide affordable health 
care to 8.5 million uninsured children? How do they plan to explain the 
Robert Woods Johnson Foundation report that one in four Texans have no 
health insurance? It is high time we ditch these short-term fixes and 
instead focus on long-term, economically responsible solutions for 
hard-working Americans.

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