[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, we have been told 
that the public option is now back on the table, but we have to call it 
by some other name. Well, I have done a little work on the criminal 
justice side, and we used to have something called prior acts evidence. 
You look at what someone has done in the past and you see how that 
allows you to interpret what they are doing now.
  So let's look at what we have done with the issue of student loans. 
Oh, yes, we got rid of the private option for student loans this month, 
because the President and the Democrats said the government has to take 
it over. And now we have in this bill an effort to try and get rid of 
the only private option in Medicare. It is called Medicare Advantage.
  But forget about that, because when they tell us now the private 
option is just an option for competition and they are not going to take 
over by government the health care system, trust them with that. Forget 
about the prior evidence. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
  The American people aren't fooled. They look at what they have done 
before, they look at what they are doing now, and they are telling us, 
help us stop them. Help us stop them.

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