[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             READ THE BILL

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. On the heels of the failed stimulus bill that added 
another roughly $1 trillion of debt to our Nation's debt, also leading 
to about another two million people losing their jobs in this country 
and then that cap-and-trade energy tax proposal that literally would 
run millions of jobs out of our country, most Americans across our 
Nation are saying, Where are the jobs?
  And, instead, the latest proposal by President Obama and Speaker 
Pelosi is this attempt to mandate a government takeover of our health 
care system.
  And, you know, the President goes out and he gives these speeches. 
And he says under his plan if you like the plan that you have, you can 
keep it. Well, unfortunately, I don't think the President has read his 
bill because if you look right here in section 102 of the bill, it says 
that the government health care czar is going to be able to take away 
your health care plan even if you like it. It's right here in the bill.
  Another part, Mr. Speaker, of what the President says is anybody who 
makes under $250,000 a year won't pay anymore in new taxes. Once again, 
maybe the President hasn't read his own bill, but in his health care 
bill right here in section 401, tax on individuals without acceptable 
health care, $29 billion in new taxes.
  Read the bill.

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