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




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, Speaker Pelosi's latest attempt at a 
government takeover of health care adds an extra $730 billion in new 
taxes onto the backs of American small businesses and families. It cuts 
$500 billion out of Medicare, which our seniors know is only going to 
lead to rationed care for them, and it will take away another 5.5 
million jobs out of our economy.
  You wonder, today, on the day that we broke the 10 percent mark that 
President Obama set right here when the stimulus bill was passed, the 
bill that he said would stop unemployment from exceeding 8 percent, 
unemployment went to 10.2 percent. Now that we're over 10 percent, when 
are the liberals running Congress going to realize that it's their 
policies, it's their taxing, it's their spending, cap-and-trade, card 
check. It's policy after policy that puts a target on the backs of 
business, and it is running millions of jobs out of this economy. When 
will it stop and they actually go and work with us Republicans who want 
to put commonsense reforms in place to lower the cost of health care 
and avoid preexisting conditions?

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