[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the administration is demanding that 
Congress pass nationalized health care before we go back to our 
districts for the August work period. They said it's urgent, that we 
have to do it or it will be the end of health care in America forever.
  That's what was said about the Wall Street bailout. Congress had to 
pass the Wall Street bailout in 24 hours or we were all going to die. 
And it passed. And it's a miserable failure.
  Next came the so-called stimulus bill. It was over a thousand pages 
long, filed in the darkness of night. Nobody had a chance to read it. 
We were told we had to vote on it immediately or the world would end. 
Well, none of that happened. The stimulus bill, too, was a disaster for 
our country.
  Hasn't Congress learned its lesson that quickly passing legislation 
because Presidents say so is a bad idea?
  Most Americans don't like this health care bill. They don't want it. 
It's going to raise taxes. So what's the rush? We need to get health 
care right instead of just getting it done. The very lives of the 
American people depend on it. Besides, the administration's current 
health care bill is a sick solution for America.
  And that's just the way it is.

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