[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25786-25787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             HEALTH REFORM

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I have to admit that I've never 
heard someone quote Herbert Hoover as being so bad and President Obama 
as being so good. We have to remember that Herbert Hoover was actually 
a Republican.
  Mr. Speaker, am I supposed to have the floor or do the Republicans 
have it part time?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 1 
minute.
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
  I rise in strong support of a national health care plan that provides 
comprehensive health care for every American.
  Three House committees had many public hearings and public votes on 
the bill, H.R. 3200. Democrats are using the same public rules that the 
Republicans used when they were in charge. They just don't like them 
because they don't have the majority now.
  We have so many people uninsured in our country. My own district has 
the highest uninsured in the country of people who have private 
insurance--35 percent of our district has private health care, and over 
40 percent is uninsured because they can't afford it or their employers 
don't provide it.
  We've given private insurance companies plenty of time to cover the 
39 million U.S. citizens who don't have health care, but they can't do 
it because they can't make a profit on

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someone like that. So that's why we need a public option. H.R. 3200 
will help that. We will have health care for everyone.

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