[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1758-1759]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WHITE HOUSE SUMMIT MEDIA EVENT

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Well, tomorrow the White House will convene a so-called 
summit on health care reform. It's supposedly an effort to find 
bipartisan agreement and consensus on reform. And frankly, if the 
administration and Democrats in Congress were willing to scrap the bill 
and start over with a clean sheet of paper, I would be all for it.
  The American people long for health care reform that will lower the 
cost of health care insurance without growing the size of government. 
But that is not what's happening here. Instead of scrapping the bill, 
the President's actually produced his own bigger, worse version of the 
bills that passed the House and Senate and then were summarily rejected 
by the American people: more spending, more taxes, more government, and 
coverage for abortion.
  Instead of starting over, Democrats in Congress continue to threaten 
to abuse the very rules of this institution by passing some version of 
their health care reform bill by a simple majority in the Senate--known 
as reconciliation.

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  Tomorrow's summit is looking more and more like a taxpayer-funded 
media event designed to set up passage of ObamaCare 2.0. The American 
people deserve to know it.

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