[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26541]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, if you were to 
write a reform of the health care system for America, you wouldn't have 
the Pelosi bill. If you were to write the health care bill for liberal 
San Francisco, you'd have the Pelosi bill.
  Why?
  It would cost too much. It would tax too much. It would be heavy on 
government. It would be wild on bureaucracy. It would contain 3,425 
separate uses of the word ``mandate.'' 3,425 times the government is 
going to tell you what to do. 3,425 times we're giving power to the 
Federal Government to get between you and your government.
  In America, it makes no sense. It may make sense in liberal San 
Francisco, but in my district, it doesn't. For the rest of the United 
States, it doesn't. Let's save America from this fate. Let's save the 
American system.

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