[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17696]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise today because we had 
a very important step in the history of America today. The House 
leadership announced a major initiative on health care reform: the 47 
million-plus and growing number of uninsured Americans, the small 
businesses who get up every day and create the economic engine, the 
hardworking laborers who work every day, the children of America, just 
plain America is looking forward to a health reform package that gives 
a robust and vigorous public option without decreasing quality that 
says to hardworking Americans, No pre-existing disease or ailment in 
your family will ever break you again.
  That allows for the strength of the integrity of the Federal 
Government to be a partner in working with those who wish to choose 
their own insurance which they already have. It is a fair balance, and 
it is paid for.
  And so as we begin this debate, I'm excited to be able to announce 
that there will be savings, elimination of fraud and abuse, the 
opportunity for real health care reform.

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