[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. LANCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LANCE. Mr. Speaker, later this week we will be voting on 
legislation that dramatically revamps our Nation's health care system. 
The 1,990-page, $1.055 trillion Democratic health care proposal is a 
measure that raises individual and business taxes and reduces funding 
for Medicare.
  The bill, if signed into law, will be harmful to New Jersey's 
taxpayers, senior citizens, and businesses. And as such, I will be 
voting against Speaker Pelosi's health care bill.
  Instead, I will be supporting a fiscally responsible alternative that 
includes medical liability reform, small business insurance pooling, 
and letting families and businesses buy insurance across State lines, 
ideas that have strong bipartisan support but are absent from the 
Democratic plan.
  The Republican alternative is the only health care reform measure 
that improves what is working in our health care system and fixes what 
is broken in a fiscally responsible manner without raising taxes or 
increasing our ever-growing debt and deficit.

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