[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23343-23344]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              OVER 100 DAYS WAITING FOR A REPUBLICAN PLAN

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because it has been 
more than 100 days since my friend and colleague, Representative Roy 
Blunt, the point man for the rumored Republican alternative health 
reform plan, said, I guarantee you we will provide you with a bill.
  Even Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal urged his party 
Tuesday to work with Democrats to offer health care solutions.
  The time to act on health insurance reform is now. We must act to 
offer the choice of affordable quality health care to all Americans 
putting you and your doctor, not the insurance companies, in charge of 
your health care while we reduce the problem of ballooning health

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care costs on American families, businesses, and our fiscal future.
  ``No'' is not a solution. Saying you support reform with no evidence 
of that support and no plan just doesn't cut it. Continuing to say 
``no'' to reform leaves tens of millions of Americans without health 
insurance, and 45,000 Americans die every year because of this.
  Our friends on the other side of the aisle can't run away from the 
fact that they have no plan.
  The time to act on health insurance reform is now.

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