[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18503]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 WE DON'T NEED A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTH CARE AND WE DON'T NEED 
                         ADDITIONAL JOB LOSSES

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Where are the jobs? Last week, the health care bill was 
passed through the Education and Labor Committee, jammed through in an 
all-night session; and, supposedly, it offered a public-private option.
  Just a few minutes ago, we finished an Education and Labor markup. 
Where we once had a public-private option in direct lending, 80 percent 
chose the nonpublic option. So what did we just do? We eliminated the 
private option, and the Federal Government is going to be a giant bank, 
one of the biggest banks in the world, taking over all student lending.
  When we talk about the needs in health care, we need to address the 
problems that we're facing, the gaps in the health care system, how to 
make it more efficient. What we don't need is a government takeover of 
health care with no private options. We don't need higher taxes on the 
small businesses and the people in my district who are struggling with 
a mean of 15 percent unemployment in my eight counties. We don't need 
additional job losses.
  And this bill unbelievably had a clause added that will add more jobs 
for ACORN. When people in my district said they wanted more jobs, they 
didn't mean more jobs for ACORN.

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