[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26542-26543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, the reviews are starting to come in on 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform proposal, and those 
reviews are pretty serious.
  In my home State, the Richmond Times Dispatch calls the bill 
grotesque; but perhaps the best description that I have seen, the most 
accurate description I have seen, is in The Wall Street Journal, that 
wrote an editorial on Sunday calling this legislation the worst bill 
ever.
  How could anyone conclude otherwise? This 1,990-page runaway train of

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more than 400,000 words, creating more than 53 new government agencies 
and programs, is not the change that the American people asked for. 
This bill is going to raise the cost of health care to the overwhelming 
majority of Americans. It's going to make our health care system more 
complicated than it already is, more costly than it already is.
  There are simple reforms that we could adopt if we would pay 
attention to what the American people want.

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