[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3962 is almost 2,000 pages long. In a 
bill that long, you expect lots of things to be opposed to, and I am. 
Here is a short, partial list of some of the things I am against.
  I am against 5.5 million people losing their jobs. I am against 114 
million people losing their private health insurance as a result of 
this legislation. I am against a new entitlement that creates $1 
trillion in new spending that we can't afford. I am against stripping 
$500 billion out of Medicare funding that would otherwise go to 
Medicare. I am against $729.5 billion in new taxes over the next 10 
years on Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, there is one thing I am for, and that is for starting 
over. Scrap this monstrosity. Let's start over with real health care 
reform, not this health care takeover.

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