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




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, a lot of us think we 
represent the people. With unemployment now over 10 percent, the second 
biggest issue if you don't have a job is that you don't have health 
care. We have a lot of problems in our country, unemployment and health 
care, and hopefully Congress will take that.
  We made a step early in the year with a stimulus bill to try and 
create jobs. It hasn't done what we wanted. We need to do something, 
but we also need to deal with health care.
  Let me take the last part of my time to say our country lost 12 brave 
soldiers yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas. They were prepared to be 
deployed to defend our country. I think that is what this House ought 
to be thinking about today, those families and those soldiers at Fort 
Hood, Texas.

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