[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19557-19558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            RUSSIAN ROULETTE

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask why the Obama 
administration and the liberal Democrats in this Congress are playing 
Russian roulette with the welfare of the American people. This 
administration and the Democrats in this Congress seem not to care 
about jobs but put all of their time into spending as much as possible 
in as little amount of time as possible. Cap-and-trade, or the national 
energy tax passed by Democrats last month is the equivalent of a $3,000 
annual tax on every single American family. And it's estimated that 
over 2.3 million jobs are going to be lost because of it.
  And the liberal health care gamble, it's not even Russian roulette 
when it comes to government-run health care. It's like jumping off a 
20-story building and thinking it's not going to kill you. The 
Democratic health care is economic suicide. The health care bill would 
impose a 5.4 percent surtax on 1.2 million small businesses, and it's 
going to increase the Federal deficit by

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$239 billion over 10 years, and most devastating, it's going to kill up 
to 4.7 million jobs because of the burdens it places on small business.
  If you want to get every American health care, then get every 
American back to work. America runs on jobs and small business. Less 
government, more Americanism. That's what will save this country.

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