[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IT KIND OF MAKES YOU WONDER, DOESN'T IT?

  (Mr. KLINE of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINE of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, as we all know here today, the 
Democrat leadership in this House is bringing forth a health care 
reform bill with a public option for the stated purpose of instituting 
competition with the private sector and making the private sector 
insurance business better. At the same time, they are bringing forward 
legislation to reform student lending.
  Today, there is a private option preferred by 80 percent of the 
colleges and universities in this country and a public option, where 
the government takes over the student lending business. The legislation 
that we are going to bring up perhaps this week in this House 
eliminates the private option and leaves only the public option. It 
kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it, about the designs on the future 
of the public option in health care?

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