[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                PROPOSED HEALTH CARE REFORM A JOB KILLER

  (Mr. ROSKAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, a few years ago I was at a famous Cubs game 
and watched as the Chicago Cubs were leading up to this crescendo. They 
were playing the Florida Marlins, and it actually looked for a minute 
as if the Chicago Cubs were going to go to the World Series. The 
announcer began to say, Well, there are five outs left and the Cubs are 
going to go to the World Series, and it got incredibly exciting. And 
then there was a bobble over in left field, and the rest is history. I 
mean, the air went out of Wrigley Field like nothing I had ever seen 
before. Just whoosh.
  Well, that is exactly what happened in the Ways and Means Committee 
when the Director of CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, came in and 
said, and I am paraphrasing now, the following about the Democrat 
majority's plan:
  Number one, you are rushing this. You haven't given us time to 
evaluate it; but, number two, there is nothing that indicates that this 
is going to save money. In fact, it looks like a budget buster.
  Again, whoosh, all the energy left the room.
  Americans know that we can do better. Americans know this is a job 
destroyer. Let's do the right thing.

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