[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27124]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, with almost 16 million people 
unemployed and looking for work, with an unemployment rate of over 10 
percent, something we haven't seen in 26 years, with countless 
Americans asking, Where are the jobs, why is the Democratic leadership 
ramming through a health care bill that will not add one net job to the 
American economy?
  In fact, the majority's bill will do the exact opposite. It will 
impose $729 billion in new taxes, crushing small business. For those 
small businesses that manage to survive the new taxes, their employees 
will be required to have insurance or face yet another tax. Mr. 
Speaker, this has got to stop. Americans do not want higher taxes. 
Americans do not want higher premiums, and Americans do not want this 
massive government health care takeover bill.

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