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




                   HEALTH CARE THAT DOESN'T KILL JOBS

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I agree with my colleague. I'm pro-life too. 
That's why I oppose the Democrat health plan. Mr. Speaker, in the midst 
of a major recession, the House is considering health care legislation 
that will place new punitive taxes on small businesses. We need job 
creation, not job destruction. And small businesses are our best hope 
for emerging from this economic downturn, but not if we tax them out of 
their job-creating potential. I've heard from scores of small business 
owners in North Carolina who are struggling to keep their businesses 
running, and who want nothing to do with the taxes and burdensome 
government mandates in the House health care legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, we need health care reform in America. I support reform 
that puts patients first and that won't destroy small businesses. 
Republicans have a better solution that won't put the government in 
charge of people's health care, that will make sure we bring down the 
cost of health care for all Americans, and that ensures affordable 
access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put 
seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

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