[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PENSION BILL IS NOT GOVERNMENT BAILOUT

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise too, as the gentleman from Ohio 
did, to be grossly off message.
  The bill in question is H.R. 3936. What it does is good government. 
It allows employers the space they need to make sure they meet the 
pension obligations that they have to their workers.
  It is not a government bailout. Taxpayer funds are not involved 
unless, of course, these institutions, these unions and their pension 
plans, fail. It is a wonderful idea by my colleague, Pat Tiberi. It is 
endorsed by many, many business groups, and I would hope that over the 
course of the coming hours the truth will out.
  Again, you can't always believe what you see on TV, except that it 
was a very handsome likeness of Congressman LaTourette that appeared on 
Fox News.

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