[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25793]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ROSKAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, if you are from the northwest suburbs of 
Chicago, today you woke up and you looked at the Chicago Tribune and 
you read an article that said your property taxes are going to go up 20 
percent. If you turned on the radio, you probably heard folks talking 
in Chicagoland about unemployment at 10.5 percent in Illinois, a number 
that we have not seen since the early 1980s. If you have been listening 
to the debate in Washington, D.C., in the past couple of weeks, you 
have been hearing about this crushing debt that is coming on you, your 
children, and your grandchildren.
  I went this afternoon to the Bureau of the Public Debt in downtown 
Washington and watched within a twinkling of an eye $44 billion that 
was borrowed on a 2-year note. That type of attitude and the attitude 
of spending and spending and spending is becoming weary for the folks 
that I represent in the Sixth District of Illinois.
  It's time for this Congress to discipline itself and come up with a 
health care plan that meets people's needs but doesn't break the bank.

                          ____________________