[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25790]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I am sad today. I hear my Republican 
colleagues just getting up to say ``no.'' I tell my Republican 
colleagues, we have one of the greatest problems that we have ever 
confronted in this country. Health care has doubled in the last 8 
years, and it will double in the next 8. And by the year 2020, health 
care costs will be $25,000.
  The bankruptcy of the steel industry, the bankruptcies in the auto 
industry and the small business industries are directly a cause from 
this.
  Listen to Daniel Webster and see what Daniel Webster had to say. He 
said this--it is on the wall up there, and I urge my Republican 
colleagues to look at it--Let us develop the resources of our land, 
call forth its power, build up its institutions, promote all of its 
great interests, and see whether we also in our day and generation may 
not perform something worthy to be remembered.
  I urge my colleagues to join us in this. Let us sign together to move 
forward a bill that offers greatness to our country.

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