[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19576]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        SLOW DOWN ON HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, it's time for us to slow down.
  The second day in office, the President said within 12 months 
Guantanamo will be closed. He's now found out that rushing and making 
that decision was the wrong decision and that the teams that he has in 
place have clearly indicated they will not be able to make that goal.
  Then we rushed into a stimulus bill, $787 billion on the backs of our 
kids and our grandkids. And it's not working. Rushing through this 
process doesn't work.
  We then did an ill-advised cap-and-trade system which has further put 
the brakes on our economy. We rushed it through.
  And now we're looking at rushing through a health care bill. People 
are talking about what's in the bill. No one really knows because 
they're still negotiating, and there are still some that say we should 
vote and we should vote this week, even though a bill isn't in front of 
us.
  Let's slow down; let's do this in a professional way and make sure 
that we have a professional product.

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