[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, the Pelosi health care plan raises 
premiums, raises taxes, cuts Medicare, and costs over $1 trillion. If 
you need more reasons to be concerned about it, there are 1,990 pages 
that will give you all kinds of excuses.
  The good news is they're about 20 votes short. The bad news is it's 
time to make a deal in Washington. So, if you're a swing Democrat and 
if you need a road or a bridge or a new building or a Federal earmark 
in your district, walk down the hall, see the Speaker, put your vote on 
the bargaining block, and you, too, can be won over in terms of 
government-sponsored health care.
  This is no way to run a republic. There are alternatives--targeted, 
market-oriented reforms that will not raise taxes and that will not cut 
Medicare.

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