[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17004]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PROVIDING HEALTH CARE SECURITY FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, this evening we have addressed our 
Nation's homeland security with the reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act, 
putting the focus where it should be, keeping this Nation safe.
  My constituents talk with me not only about homeland security and 
economic security, but about our health care security.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Sam Johnson) for the Small Business Health Fairness Act that he has 
filed. We talk about small businesses buying association health plans, 
being able to group together to buy health insurance to provide for 
their small business employees. This is a good idea. It helps bolster 
our Nation's economic engine, those small businesses.
  I commend the gentleman from Texas. I cosponsored his legislation. I 
look forward to supporting it as he begins to move that to the floor 
and we keep the focus on security in this great Nation.

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