[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. LEE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LEE of New York. Mr. Speaker, let's look at the numbers on the 
Democratic health care bill being rammed through Congress this week.
  At almost 2,000 pages, this new bill creates 111 new offices, 
commissions, programs and bureaucracies. It creates more than 3,400 new 
duties for bureaucrats in Washington. It also will eliminate millions 
of jobs in the private sector and an unprecedented expansion of the 
Federal bureaucracy.
  Instead of listening to what Americans want and working on meaningful 
reform, the Democratic leadership came up with a bill that will cost 
taxpayers more than $1.2 trillion and do nothing to make health care 
more affordable in this country. This is on top of the $9 trillion 
deficit we are expected to have over the next decade in this country.
  Controlling costs should be our number one priority for this 
administration. Unfortunately, my colleagues from across the aisle 
continue to ignore meaningful, medical liability reform, which this 
year alone could save over $11 billion. We should be listening to what 
the American public wants and is demanding: real tangible methods of 
reform.

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