[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. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. The American people want health care reform that lowers 
the cost of health insurance rather than increasing the cost of 
government, but it looks like that's exactly what they're getting in 
the Pelosi health care bill.
  Here are the numbers: 1,990 pages; $1.2 trillion in the Pelosi plan 
in new Federal spending over the next 10 years; $729.5 billion in new 
tax increases. It's just extraordinary.
  Within the confines of the bill, 43 entitlement programs are created 
or expanded; 111 additional offices, bureaus, commissions, programs, 
and bureaucracies; and this legislation uses the mandatory legal 
language--the word ``shall''--3,425 times. And this isn't a government 
takeover of health care? Give me a break.
  The Pelosi health care plan is a freight train of big government, 
higher taxes, and mandates--and it must be opposed. The American people 
deserve a better plan.
  You can go to healthcare.gop.gov and start getting the details of a 
plan that will lower the cost of health insurance instead of growing 
the size of government.

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