[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27126]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PELOSI-CARE KILLS JOBS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, this morning we received grim news. More 
Americans have lost their jobs, and we now see the unemployment rate at 
10.2 percent, the highest in over 25 years. The stimulus bill has done 
little to prevent rising unemployment, only creating a handful of jobs 
in each of our congressional districts. Only 67 in mine, in the 16th 
Congressional District of Pennsylvania.
  Now, instead of concentrating on how we can restart our economic 
engine, we start to consider a health care bill that could cost 
millions of more Americans their jobs in the next decade. Ways and 
Means Committee staff, working with the Congressional Budget Office and 
Joint Tax Committee figures, estimate that Speaker Pelosi's bill could 
cost 5.5 million American jobs over the next 10 years. It is 
inconceivable that this House will consider killing jobs during a 
recession.
  A government takeover of health care will only employ more tax 
collectors and bureaucrats. We need real health care reform, the kind 
that focuses on reducing costs, improving quality of care and expanding 
access.

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