[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17521-17522]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, as we've heard, a new Congress was elected 
2 weeks ago. But now the American people are anxious because the old 
Congress is back in town to finish the unfinished business. And to be 
sure, there are some things that need to be taken care of; but what 
remains of this Congress must be careful not to overstep its bounds.
  We saw what happened with the passage of a deeply, deeply unpopular 
health care law. That repeal vote needs to come quickly in the next 
Congress; and, quite honestly, it can't come quickly enough.
  But as long as we're here, as long as we're here doing the people's 
business, how about if we exercised some of that famous congressional 
oversight and asked some of the heads of the Federal agencies to come 
into the relevant committees and talk about what their plans are for 
implementation of these rules in the health care law?
  What about these new Federal agencies that are being created even as 
we speak with new office space being rented and personnel being hired?
  What about these waivers that, over the last 2\1/2\ weeks, have just 
snowballed out of the White House, and what about the health exchanges 
that even now our State legislatures are being asked to create?
  Oversight was eliminated by the last Congress; it will not be 
overlooked by the next.

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