[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              WORKING TOGETHER FOR TRUE HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Mr. Speaker, we were told time was of the 
essence when we were considering the economic stimulus package. We were 
told we didn't have time to waste in passing the President's budget. 
Yet, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars in additional spending 
and despite the trillions of dollars in additional debt, we must ask: 
Where are the jobs?
  Now we're told we must rush to pass health care reform, which will 
cost you more jobs, which will increase taxes and which will put a 
Federal bureaucrat between you and your doctor.
  House Republicans believe in true health care reform that will reduce 
skyrocketing health care costs while protecting that very special 
doctor-patient relationship. True reform must make health care more 
affordable by reducing costs by rooting out waste, fraud and abuse and 
by reining in frivolous lawsuits that cost families millions of dollars 
each year in higher premiums--true health care reform that challenges 
Americans to be healthy and to invest in health information technology.
  Let's take the time, and let's work together to get the right 
prescription for health care reform.

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