[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19572]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TRUE BIPARTISANSHIP

  (Mr. COLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, since January, we've had a lot of talk about 
bipartisanship, and we've even had some of it. We had a partisan 
Democratic stimulus bill that created bipartisan debt and unemployment, 
but no bipartisan jobs. We had a partisan Democratic cap-and-trade bill 
that will create bipartisan higher energy prices, but no more 
bipartisan energy. And now we've got a partisan Democratic health care 
bill that will cost Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike their 
jobs and quality health care. Hopefully, Mr. Speaker, the Democratic 
majority will eventually create a bipartisan opposition that will stop 
their job-killing health care bill in its tracks.

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