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Tom Price: listen to the american people, create bipartisan health care reform and get americans back to work. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does mr. rooney from florida rise? mr. rooney: address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rooney: madam speaker, i'm astounded by the democrats' blatant abuse of the house rules established in our constitution

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Tom Price: by entertaing the possibily of what's 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 this actual text they will strip the american people of their rights to checks and balances in a bicameral congress.

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Scott Garrett: reducing health care costs when constitutional and not by creating a new entitlement in a backroom deal. ank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. garrett: madam speaker, i

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Scott Garrett: come to the floor today to speak out e democrats' proposed slaughter solution. this is a sleight of hand with an unconstitutional move to avoid a true vote. younow, article 1 section 7 of the constitution reads, every billhall have passed the house of representatives and the senate before it is presented to the president of the united states. you know, with the slaughter solution leadership is

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Scott Garrett: spoken on this and said a bill must contain the exact text before it is approved in one house and then the other in precisely the same text. madam speaker, if we ignore the basic requirements of the constitution, whether by disregarding procedural constraints or oversteing our congressional authority, by dictating people's health insurance, we will descend from

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: the tyranny of a dictatorship. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. for what purpose do you rise? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: madam speaker, medicare will be expanded, medicaid will be expanded to

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: allow more people to be insured, our children will have more health insurance, it will be a major change for america, a positive change. it is interesting that every time america makes a historic and catastrophic change for the better there is large voices of opposition, confused voices, voices without the facts. i'm reminded of the history of

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: that they must be able to go to hospitals and not be kicked out, that they must be able to get insurance without saying you have a pre-existing condition, that women cannot be discriminated against. where's the courage to stand up as we did in a time when african-americans needed their freedom? it is now time to free others who do not have health insurance. do you have the courage to make these hard decisions when others

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Rob Bishop: and democratic leaders to slip this past the american people make all of lucy ricardo's schemes to be a part of ricky's show look like clear and logical plans of action. this also would be a comedy if it wasn't such a tragedy for the american people. madam speaker, my state has already instituted real health care solutions that deal with our demographics and give people options in the state of utah.

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Lee Terry: all trillion-dollar tragedy is actually passed here on the house floor. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? new jersey. for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska rise?

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Lee Terry: >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. terry: there will be no straight up and down vote on a health care bill. instead the leadership has chosen a procedural trick to insert the senate bill into a rule deeming the senate bill passed. so if you vote for the rule you

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Lee Terry: the government and its bureaucrats. yes, this is about government control, where bureaucrats and congress wilbe in control of your health care. and somehow th leadership and authors of these tricks in this bill wonder why the american

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Trent Franks: so doggedly determined to include the increased tax-pair funded murder of little unborn - taxpayer funded murder of little unborn children in this bill. nothing so destroys the notion that this bill is about compassion than the arrogant disenfranchisement of those who are helpless and have no voice. it is an unspeakable disgrace.

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the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> address the house for one minute. . >> thank you, madam speaker. later this week the speaker will ask for a final vote on the bill. the senate bill containa rarefied legislative compromise

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Michael M. Honda: the bill that passed out of the senate satisfies 59 sitting senators. the compromise that will pass out of this house will please far fewer. simple logic tells us that the

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senate democrats do not have a real and abiding interest in bailing out house democrats for having passed the senate bill. of course simple logic has never been part of this debate. madam speaker, my democratic colleagues are playing a game of chicken with the united states senate. in the end the president might just sign the senate president bill into law along with the louisiana purchase, gador aid, and abortion funding.

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John Fleming: company let alone the federal government to spend the health care dollars efficiently. however, i'm not suggesting that patients have to bear higher out-of-pocket costs. by this the doctor and patient must be reengaged, however, with the cost their care. and how can we do that? one amendment that we have

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Virginia Foxx: medical spending account for all those government and private insurance programs that can be spent at the discretion -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina se? ms. foxx: permission to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. foxx: yesterday i held a town hall in statesville, north

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Virginia Foxx: carolina torques hear from my constituents about health care reform. one thing was abundantly clear, they do not want this bill and they are sick and tired of the backroom deals and provision that is have characterized this process. they wanted health care reform, but they were developmently opposed to the senate bill. -- vehemently opposed to the senate bill. my constituents are asking me if this is such a wonderful

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Peter Roskam: approach to health care reform that the american people can support. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker prtempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, as we are here today on the house floor at this very moment the

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Peter Roskam: democratic leadership of the house of representatives is smiling and dialing. they are calling members of congress on the other side of the aisle and cajoling them and coaxing them and urging them to do the equivalent of really political bungee jumping, with you they don't know how long the cord is. you be the first one to jump off, we are going to vote for

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Peter Roskam: in the twinkling of an eye? it is as if the democrat inc. leaders are telling the american public, look, we have a wonderful plan for your life. you are going to love it. we are going to vote on it and then we'll let you read it. madam speaker, we can do better. the american public demands

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Bob Goodlatte: who, while they may believe health care reform is necessary, think this particular approach will take our nation down the wrong economic path. american families want health care reform that will expand access and choices and decrease costs. the democrats' health care bill includes tax increases, medicare cuts, job-killing mandates, and higher premiums. this bill is nothing more than

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John J. Jr.Duncan: the american people have overwhelmingly rejected. this bill must be killed. we must start over. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. duncan: madam speaker, when i was driving into work last friday, i heard the governor of arizona on the news saying that

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John J. Jr.Duncan: her state, already faces its biggest deficit ever, over $3 billion. she said they had calculated the health care bill would cost an additional $4 bllion that they simply do not have. because tennessee already covers more than most states, our democratic governor nonetheless said it would st our state from $750 million up to $3 billion more.

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John J. Jr.Duncan: spending programs it already has.

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Gregg Harper: vote on the senate's so-called health care reform proposal. let's have that vote. the president has argued the democrats need courage to pass this one-size-fits all government takeover of health care. where is the courage in hiding behind procedural chaos like the slaughter solution? no matter what anyone says, a yes vote on the reconciliation

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Marsha Blackburn: hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded mandates to my home state of mississippi. i urge you to oppose this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. blackburn: thank you,

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Marsha Blackburn: madam speaker. this year i have replaced town hall meetings in my district with listening sessions. i go to hear what my constituents have to teach me and teach this body. they want us to know that e process matters to them. some of my colleagues like to say that it doesn't make any difference, but my constituents

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Marsha Blackburn: building asking us to stop this outrageous government takeover of health care. and take health reform step by step and structure a system that gets them out of this broken system, not locks them into it permanently.

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Robert Latta: let me tell you what they are saying. jimmy from yorktown says we are very concerned with the direction congressional leadership is taking with health care reform. it is apparent congress is not listening to the american people. we understand the need to address health care reform, however, congress must include fiscal responsibility in any reform legislation. congress needs to listen to the

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Phil Gingrey: let's listen to the american people, listen to tir concerns, and do the right thing. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> madam speaker, to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. gingrey: madam speaker, one day after the health care summit at the blair house, peggy noonan wrote in the "wall street journal," and i quote,

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Phil Gingrey: what the meeting made clear is what the democrats are going to do. not step back and save the moderates of their party but attempt to bully a bill through the congress. this is boorish of them and they will suffer for it. indeed, madam speaker, i think the democrats will get slaughtered for it.