[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14832]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HEALTH CARE PETITIONS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, this morning here on Capitol Hill I stood 
with other Members of Congress to receive more than 1.6 million 
signatures on petitions calling for the immediate repeal of last year's 
huge health care law.
  We've now had 18 months to find out what's in the bill, and it only 
looks worse every day. We found the billions of dollars in slush funds 
that the Secretary of Health and Human Services controls, without any 
input from Congress. We found a CLASS Act, a long-term care insurance 
care plan that is so broken that HHS had to stop planning for its 
implementation. We've seen health care premiums climb faster, despite 
promises that the law would save every American family $2,500 per year. 
We've seen Federal courts reject as unconstitutional the notion that 
the government can force you to buy insurance.
  I'd need much more than 1 minute to catalog all the ways this bill is 
hurting job growth and destroying health care innovation. Simply put, 
this is a rolling train wreck, and the American people know it. We need 
to listen to them and repeal this destructive and unconstitutional 
bill.

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