[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HEALTH CARE BILL IS MOVING FORWARD

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say how proud I am of the 
fact that both in the House and the Senate we are now moving towards 
health care reform. The committees of jurisdiction have moved bills. 
The bills are now being prepared for a floor vote in both the House and 
the Senate.
  It is so important to my constituents and to every American that we 
have affordable health insurance. The number of people without 
insurance continues to grow. The statistics about increased costs for 
health care and insurance next year continue to go up. We need to 
accomplish the goal of providing affordable insurance for everyone, and 
that's about to be accomplished here in the Congress--both in the House 
and the Senate.
  I think we can move forward with these bills in the next few weeks 
and then go to conference and have a bill on the President's desk by 
the end of this year, which was the goal of President Obama since the 
beginning.
  So we should be very proud of the fact that we are moving forward and 
that this is something that finally will be accomplished for the 
American people.

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