[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25796-25797]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. LaTOURETTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, all throughout history, there's been the 
big lie, and we've got the big lie going here again.

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  It goes like this: Republicans won't let us have health care reform.
  Republicans are the Party of No.
  Why are Republicans stopping us from reforming health care?
  Well, I'm going to tell you something--the Democrats have won the 
last two elections because we did such a bang-up job. But the fact of 
the matter is, there are 257 of them. There are only 177 of us, 
although it looks like a bigger number over here today. We couldn't 
stop a one-car parade. This health care discussion is a fight between 
the left and the far left. And sadly for the Democratic majority, 
they've got people in their party that think that this health care 
proposal proposed by the far left is wacky. It takes $500 billion out 
of Medicare. You do nothing with the lawyers as they file lawsuits and 
cause doctors to practice defensive medicine.
  This is a bad bill. They can't even get their own team to row the 
boat, but they want to say, Republicans don't want to reform health 
care.

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