[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         OUR PRIORITY SHOULD BE TO GET HEALTH CARE REFORM RIGHT

  (Mr. McCARTHY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY of California. Mr. Speaker, earlier today I was in a 
meeting with a microcosm of small businesses around the United States. 
We met inside this Capitol. We talked about health care. We talked 
about ways to reform health care, to bring the costs down, the quality 
up, to be able to have greater accessibility, to be able to have the 
ability to move from job to job and have health care coverage, to be 
able to have choice and quality.
  And when I sat around this table with small business owners, one of 
the individuals owned a Kentucky Fried Chicken, one owned a pizza 
establishment, and he talked about going from 45 employees to 35. He 
said if this health care bill, as proposed, as is written today, his 
question will not be, will he have to lay people off; the question will 
be, will he shut down? He will have to close his business if this bill 
passes this week.
  I ask that we spend our priority not on how much time we have to pick 
a dog but how much time we actually have to do health care right.

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