[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. POSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my serious concerns about 
the health care bill that's being rushed to the floor. This 2,000-plus-
page bill has hundreds of new pages that no one yet has had a chance to 
read, much less understand.
  There are over 110 new Federal programs and bureaucracies, each with 
its own new costly mandates. This bill taxes you if you have health 
insurance, it taxes you if you cannot afford to have health insurance, 
and it taxes you if you are a small business and you cannot afford to 
give health insurance to all of your employees. It has over $730 
billion in new job-killing taxes.
  What Americans need today more than anything else is new jobs, but 
this bill will result in the loss of another 5.5 million jobs. Congress 
can't even figure out how to make its own workweek, much less change 
the whole health care system. Let's use a little common sense around 
here for a change.

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