[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this latest attempt 
at a government takeover of health care that has been proposed by 
Speaker Pelosi.
  Now, this 1,990-page bill that has just been filed a few days ago by 
the Speaker adds up to over a trillion dollars of new spending. If you 
break this spending down, how much does this really cost? $530 million 
per page, $530 million per page.
  What's in this bill? Sure enough, they still have components that 
allow a health care czar to take away your health care plan even if you 
like it. They still have over $700 billion in new taxes on the backs of 
small businesses and families. Yes, as senior citizens know well, they 
still have over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare.
  Now, with all of these horrible provisions, this has nothing to do 
with health care reform. It is clearly an attempt at a government 
takeover of health care. In fact, this bill at $530 million per page 
has been called the worst bill ever by The Wall Street Journal. Let's 
do real reform.

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