[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BRALEY of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, Clara Peller demands health care 
reform now. Twenty-five years ago, nobody knew who Clara Peller was, 
but she soon became famous because she was the one in those Wendy's ads 
who introduced the famous phrase, ``Where's the beef?'' And for our 
friends on the Republican side of the aisle, that's the question we 
would all like to know: ``Where's the bill?''
  If you're hearing so much conversation about the Democratic health 
care bill, there's a very good reason for that. There is no Republican 
bill, despite promises month after month after month to reveal what 
that bill would contain. There's no CBO score of the Republican bill.
  So how do we know that there's a bill that's going to affect 
Americans? Well, we know that bill will be mostly about preserving the 
status quo. And I would like my friends to tell my constituent, Hannah 
Rodriguez, who has a cleft palate and has been waiting years for her 
parents to save up the money for her corrective medical procedure 
because it's considered cosmetic surgery under her current policy, why 
she should wait longer for health care reform.

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