[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21081]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          WE NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT PUTS PATIENTS FIRST

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, it was a long, hot August for many Members of 
Congress who returned home to face the displeasure of constituents fed 
up with Washington's tin ear syndrome.
  Over the past month I have heard from more people than I can count 
who have had enough of the explosion of Washington-style big 
government. And of course it was no comfort that in the middle of 
August the White House announced that they expect $9.1 trillion in new 
government debt over the next 10 years. So how is it that the American 
people are expected to stomach a new government-run health care 
proposal that is estimated to cost up to $1.6 trillion?
  Let's scrap the Democrat government-run health care proposal and 
return to the drawing board for a plan like ones that Republicans have 
offered that puts patients, not government, first.

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