[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19430]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE PLAN NEEDS TO COME TO THE FLOOR

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I'm looking at the list of the things to be 
covered this week. It has, ``Friday, health care legislation???''
  I hope that the American people will let their voices be heard. This 
is not good for America. It is going to cost tremendous amounts of 
money, and then our seniors, especially, get particularly vulnerable. 
They go on lists and they are not prioritized, and then they die 
waiting in line, just as the man I met here recently from Canada, just 
as his father did after being on the list for 2 years to get a bypass 
surgery.
  We don't need to go here. People don't need to be dying in line. We 
can have a better plan, and we have a better plan, but it's been shut 
out with Leg Counsel and I can't get it out in the form of a bill. 
That's what we need to do. The plan's there. Just let us get it to the 
floor.

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