[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ROONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROONEY. Madam Speaker, I'm astounded by the Democrats' blatant 
abuse of the House rules established in our Constitution by 
entertaining the possibility of what is known as the Slaughter rule. If 
they choose to deem the Senate health care bill law under this self-
executing rule, without a traditional up-or-down vote on the actual 
text, they will strip the American people of their right to checks and 
balances in a bicameral Congress. If my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle truly believe that this health care bill will solve the 
Nation's health care problems, then why are they afraid to go on the 
record and put their names on it?
  Like most Americans, I am disillusioned with this Congress. We need 
to go back to the drawing board and focus on reducing health care 
costs, where constitutional, and not by creating a new entitlement in a 
backroom deal.

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