[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. RADANOVICH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, The Wall Street Journal ran 
an editorial on the Speaker's health care bill entitled ``The Worst 
Bill Ever,'' an understatement, to say the least.
  To quote The Wall Street Journal: ``Mrs. Pelosi's handiwork ranks 
with the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act 
as among the worst bills Congress has ever seriously contemplated.'' 
Let's make no mistake, the Democrats' government takeover of the health 
care industry is an attempt to finish what FDR and the Progressives 
could not, a cradle-to-grave omnipotent government. It will extend the 
recession just as surely as FDR's programs prolonged the Great 
Depression.
  The middle class and small businesses will bear the brunt of 
government's takeover of 16 percent of our economy to the tune of 
almost $730 billion in new taxes and an additional $1.2 trillion in new 
spending. One thing is for sure, Mr. Speaker, America is getting sick, 
sick of this Congress' government-knows-best attitude.

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