[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26551]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, this may be the most important vote, the 
most important debate we will ever engage in as Members of Congress. We 
are at a turning point in this country. Under this liberal Congress, 
this liberal President, Congress has moved to take over so many aspects 
of American life, there is not much left.
  The one piece they really want control over is our health care. From 
cradle to grave, the government will decide what procedures you get, 
how much the doctor will be paid, and when the doctor can do it. That 
puts the doctor in control of our health care system.
  At a time of record debt and deficit, with a deficit over a trillion 
and a half dollars, with a national debt over $12 trillion, The Wall 
Street Journal editorial--and if you don't read anything else, I would 
encourage people to read yesterday's Wall Street Journal editorial 
which points out in an analysis you can document, they have carefully 
researched Pelosi's health care bill which she unwrapped last Thursday, 
may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever 
introduced. In a rational political world, this 1,900-page runaway 
train would have been derailed months ago.

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