[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TOO MANY CRISES IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. ISSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, it is so good to be back on the House floor, 
doing the people's work. But once again, I hear the word ``crisis'' 
used constantly--energy is a crisis, the health care crisis. When will 
this body deal with the problems in many cases created by government in 
a way that the American people can have the confidence that, in fact, 
we view problems as something which gets solved, and it gets solved by 
having the private sector able to do what it does best and the public 
sector doing only the minimum necessary?
  When I hear my colleagues talk about how we have to make insurance 
companies do this or that, I recognize that we still don't get it. The 
crises are created in Washington, and we must change to help solve 
problems with the American people and not make everything a crisis to 
justify our pet projects.

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