[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19559]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ASSUMING NO RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, in the debate that 
we've had over health care, we Republicans have attempted to try and 
communicate our concerns to the American people. We have developed a 
simple chart that explains the bureaucratic morass that will exist 
between you, the individual--the patient--and your doctor, but we've 
been told we can't send this out because the majority party objects to 
it.
  First of all, they said they didn't know whether it was true. 
Secondly, they said we didn't somehow substantiate everything. Thirdly, 
they don't like ``House Democrats' health plan'' here. So they 
suggested that maybe we should put on some sort of disclaimer, so I've 
come up with a disclaimer. We've tried to figure out what will work:
  ``The Democratic Party assumes no responsibility for providing this 
information to the American people.'' Maybe they don't like that. ``The 
majority party assumes no responsibility for providing this information 
to the American people.'' ``The House Democrats assume no 
responsibility.'' Finally, maybe this is what we ought to put up here, 
Mr. Speaker: ``The President and the House Democrats assume no 
responsibility for providing this information to the American people 
because they know, if the American people knew this is what would 
happen to them and that this is what would be put between them and 
their doctors, they wouldn't support it.''

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