[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, somewhere in this Capitol, behind closed 
doors, the Democrats, by themselves, are writing a health care reform 
bill that is going to cost the taxpayers of this country more than $1 
trillion.
  Added on top of the enormous debt that we already have, this 
legislation is also going to include mandates that are going to risk 
millions of American jobs. At a time when we have nearly 10 percent 
unemployment and nearly 15 million people in this country looking for 
work, they're going to pass legislation that's going to cost millions 
of more jobs if they attempt to mandate on small businesses, which are 
struggling, an additional obligation of an 8\1/2\ percent payroll tax.
  In addition, this is going to harm our senior citizens in a multitude 
of ways. Those of them who are on Medicare Advantage plans, like 
thousands in my congressional district in Virginia, are going to lose 
the opportunity to participate in those plans as they take $162 billion 
in cuts out of that portion of Medicare and $400 billion in cuts from 
Medicare overall.
  Save our seniors. Vote against this bad plan.

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