[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1411-1412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 IT IS TIME TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I would like to thank my dear friend, Mr. 
Kanjorski, for offering a privileged resolution.
  My simple words are that this House was privileged to have a man like 
John Murtha walk these halls and this floor. I know that as he is 
honored on Wednesday night with a Special Order, we will gather to 
celebrate and commemorate a life well lived not only for his family, 
but for his country and for the people that he loved and the military 
that he served and respected.
  Madam Speaker, I come as well today to speak very quickly about the 
President's issuance of a health care reform package. Everywhere I have 
gone in my district there are people crying out for relief, and that 
relief comes in terms of no preexisting disease, lower premium costs, 
the insuring of 36 million, and the opportunity for people to go into 
an exchange and find the insurance that they can subscribe to, 
including that which covers those of us in Congress. We have to stop 
those who are dying, 45,000, who live without insurance. It is time to 
pass health care reform now.

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