[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 GOVERNMENT HASTE MAKES TAXPAYER WASTE

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. We are going to soon be facing a question of health 
care for Americans. We've heard about how important it is for fellow 
Americans to have access to quality, affordable health care, and we 
hear that government is the answer. We hear that, if we spend $1 
trillion, we may be able to insure one-third of our fellow citizens. 
Extrapolating from that, that means, to insure all of the uninsured, it 
will cost us $3 trillion. We hear this must be done by August.
  Government haste makes taxpayer waste. We must do this properly. We 
must do this correctly. We cannot do it properly or correctly with an 
arbitrary deadline set by people who have, to date, passed bills they 
have not read and that have yet to work for the American people, whose 
number one concern right now is keeping a job or finding one.

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