[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans were just castigated for 
being the party of ``no,'' and I would submit that it is just the 
opposite, and this is why.
  The President of the United States, in a historic move, gave a speech 
to the joint session of the House. He said, If any Republicans have 
positive ideas, they need to come to me, and I'll be happy to sit down 
with them.
  Well, I wrote a letter to the President, taking him up on that 
wonderful offer, and said, I have a positive alternative, Mr. 
President. Could I sit down and share that with you? I'm still waiting 
by my desk for that return phone call, and I have yet to receive the 
courtesy reply as have multiple of my Republican colleagues offered to 
the President to share with him their positive alternatives.
  The party of ``no'' is the party that locks the door on Republicans 
to even prevent them from coming into a committee room to offer our 
positive alternatives. We have them. What has the majority offered? 
They've offered to cut Medicare to senior citizens by $500 billion. Is 
that a positive alternative? We have loads of them. We're the party of 
``yes.''
  Stop being the party of ``no.''

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