[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19547]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NO MESSAGE MACHINE

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, it's absolutely outrageous to say the 
Republicans want to do nothing on health care reform. We want to expand 
medical savings accounts; we want to do everything we can to build 
associated health plans so that small businesses out there working and 
struggling trying to create jobs in the private sector can come 
together and, in fact, purchase health insurance for their employees. 
We want to do everything that we can to allow people to, on the 
Internet, purchase health care insurance across State lines.
  The fact is, it's no message machine or talking point to realize that 
the Congressional Budget Office has said that contrary to Speaker 
Pelosi's line, This is going to dramatically increase the cost of 
health care, and Robert Samuelson, no Republican he, in The Post 
yesterday said, If you listen to President Obama, his reform will 
satisfy most everyone. It will insure the uninsured, control runaway 
health spending, subdue future health budget benefits, preserve choice 
for payments and include quality of care.
  He said these claims are self-serving exaggerations and political 
fantasies.

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