[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27029-27030]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        WRONG BILL AT WRONG TIME

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Madam Speaker, all across this country there are 
families that are waking up concerned about their future. They are 
concerned about their jobs. They are concerned about what the direction 
of this country is. We read a new statistic that showed that only 2,500 
of the supposed 640,000 jobs that were created or saved by the stimulus 
were manufacturing jobs. Only 2,500. Manufacturing is good. We need 
that in this country.
  At the same time, we hear this morning that the unemployment now has 
risen to 10.2 percent. At a time when our Nation is suffering, it is 
not the time, it is not the place to implement the proposed Nancy 
Pelosi health care bill.
  We need health care reform, but this is the wrong bill at the wrong 
time. It

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raises taxes on businesses and individuals. It raises taxes on medical 
manufacturers. I urge my colleagues to strike this down and kill that 
bill.

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