[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3522]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. I often wonder what part of the world our colleagues 
are living in on the other side of the aisle. I arrived here on 
November 5. On November 6 there was an up-or-down vote on a major 
health reform bill in this House. The Senate did it just before 
Christmas. I think it was Christmas Eve. There has been an up-or-down 
vote, and now this week we will have an opportunity to take up this 
bill, pass it on to the President, get it signed, and simultaneously 
make corrections in the Senate. It sounds to me like that's an open 
process, and we've been at this now for more than a year here and this 
Nation for more than a century, trying to provide health care for all.
  And let's keep in mind that our economy absolutely demands that we 
take action now. Seventeen percent of our economy is being used. The 
more we spend, the more uninsured we have. We solve those problems with 
this bill. It's time for action. It's time to stop saying ``no'' and 
get on with solving a major fundamental problem here in America.

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