[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 9947-9948]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT H.R. 3722

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, today we will vote on H.R. 3722, and we 
have heard a lot of bogus arguments that are based on just total 
misrepresentations of this bill. I would hope the people go to the 
basics of this.
  We cannot be the HMO of the world and expect to take care of our own 
people. And if Congress does not act, if H.R. 3722 is not passed, 
illegal immigrants will have priority in America's emergency rooms 
because the Federal Government will be picking up the tab for illegals, 
but not for U.S. citizens. That is a travesty.
  Furthermore, we all know we have limited dollars here to take care of 
our seniors and our children. Those limited dollars should not be 
squandered on illegal immigrants.
  People have come here illegally and thumbed their noses at our law. 
Why are we spending billions of dollars to take care of their health 
care while we cannot provide any medicine to our seniors? This is a 
travesty.
  H.R. 3722 will help correct the situation, at least get us back to 
going in the right direction rather than allocating more and more 
resources to the care of illegal immigrants. Vote for H.R. 3722.

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