[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26547]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. LAMBORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Speaker, Washington is attempting to take over our 
health care system, roughly 16 percent of the economy.
  In the shadow of an approximately $12 trillion national debt, I am 
deeply concerned about the financial direction our country is taking. 
Our annual deficit set an all-time record this year of $1.4 trillion, 
three times the previous record. Our future obligations are over $50 
trillion, and we have no plan to pay any of it back. This is 
unsustainable.
  While people in my State of Colorado and all over the country are 
struggling, the Federal Government has the audacity to propose raising 
taxes by another $730 billion for health care. Besides higher taxes, 
the health care plan is largely paid for, if you can call it that, by 
raiding Medicare, another entitlement program that is nearly insolvent.
  If Congress were a publicly traded company, it would be looking at 
huge civil and criminal penalties for shoddy bookkeeping.

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