[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17229]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HEALTH CARE REFORM IS DISASTER

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, health care reform is a 
disaster. The cost of the Democrat health care bill is $1.5 trillion, 
and we still don't know how they intend to pay for it. That is on top 
of the fact that the Democrats have spent nearly $1 trillion on the 
stimulus to create jobs that we have yet to see, plus $400 billion on a 
so-called emergency spending bill.
  They doled out billions to the auto industry, billions to Wall 
Street, and a whopping $182 billion to AIG. And that is on top of the 
$700 billion housing rescue. And now they want a $1.5 trillion health 
care plan.
  The problem with our health care system isn't that we don't spend 
enough; it is that we spend it inefficiently. We can and we must do 
better for our children and our grandchildren.
  America, let's stop the red ink now.

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