[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CAMP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, the health care of every American is too 
important to risk on one gigantic piece of legislation, especially one 
being written in secret and behind closed doors.
  The Democrat plan, or at least the last time any of us saw it, was 
over 1,000 pages long. It contained hundreds of billions of dollars in 
new taxes--taxes on families earning as little as $20,000 a year and 
taxes on small businesses. Even if our national unemployment rate were 
not 9.8 percent, or over 10 percent in my home State of Michigan, these 
massive new taxes would create an undue burden on families and on 
employers. To raise taxes while these Americans are losing their jobs 
is irresponsible.
  To what end do Democrats raise these taxes? What do we get for these 
tax increases? While the Democrats' health care tax increases go into 
effect immediately, Democrats delay their so-called ``reforms'' for 
years to come. This plan is literally immediate pain for no gain.
  Again, the health care of every American is too important to risk on 
this secretly negotiated 1,000-page bill.

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