[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, we just got yet another smoking gun in this 
latest report by the Obama administration on this government takeover 
of health care. And the report confirms what many of us said: the bill 
actually increases spending over $300 billion.
  With all the new taxes on medical devices, drugs, and insurance, it's 
going to increase the cost of health care for American families and 
small businesses. Over $575 billion in cuts to Medicare, they point 
out, will actually lead to reduced services for Medicare recipients, 
and in fact 50 percent of all Medicare Advantage participants will lose 
that health care that they like.
  The American people are asking us and continue to say, Why isn't 
Congress focusing on creating jobs? Well, we should be, but Speaker 
Pelosi and her liberal lieutenants just want more government takeovers 
and more Wall Street bailouts. They are now trying to push this 
permanent bailout fund of Wall Street, and the American people continue 
to ask: Where are the jobs? The tone-deaf liberals running this 
Congress just don't get it.

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