[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18495]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. LAMBORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today troubled about the Democrats' 
proposed government takeover of our health care system. The 
Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that this legislation will 
not reduce costs but, rather, drive health costs up higher for American 
families.
  In addition to rising costs, according to the White House's chief 
economic adviser, Christina Romer, business tax hikes alone could 
destroy up to 4.7 million jobs.
  Congress should consider free-market and Tax Code reforms to make our 
health care system better.
  The President and his majority in Congress failed to produce jobs 
with the so-called stimulus. Where are the jobs?
  Why should we trust them with revising the one-sixth of our economy 
based on health care, when their own advisers say it will mean millions 
of more jobs lost?

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