[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18940]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  VAGUE AND GENERAL HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. COBLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, during his prime time press conference last 
night, President Obama spoke in vague generalities about his care 
proposal in claiming the plan is deficit neutral. The nonpartisan 
Congressional Budget Office disagrees, the CBO, found that the 
legislation would increase the deficit by $239 billion over a 10-year 
period. The CBO director recently said the administration's plan 
significantly expands the Federal responsibility for health care costs, 
but you wouldn't know this from having watched last evening's press 
conference. Not one reporter questioned the President about the CBO's 
findings. Instead the media, once again, gave the President a free pass 
and deprived Americans of all the facts surrounding health care.

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