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Joe Courtney: with a choice of private health insurance plan, comprehensive benefits no rescissions, no lifetime limits, no annual limit, that's what we're giving

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Paul Braun, Jr.: let me tell you a couple of things they won't do and will do. it's going to drive millions of people out of work. also, besides that, it's going to drive many doctors business, amr. burton was

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Paul Braun, Jr.: talking about. when people have that free insurance card issued by the federal government in their pocket, it's going to be about as worthless as the confederate doctor was after the civil war you won't find many doctors

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Paul Braun, Jr.: willing to take the government insurance card. access will be worse. it's going to be worse for the people who can least afford it to be, that's the poor people in this country as well as senior citizens. we need to repeal this bill we need to stop this reconciliation process farce tonight we need to repeal

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Paul Braun, Jr.: obamacare and replace it with something that saves jobs and will -- the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. the gentleman is entitled to be heard. please proceed. mr. dreier: i thank -- mr. broun: i thank the gentleman. we need to repeal obamacare and

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Louise McIntosh Slaughter: policy that will create access, create jobs, which will lower the cost of health care and not be a government takeover of the health care system. i yield pack.

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John Hall: ms. slaughter: i yield one minute to the gentleman from new york, mr. hall. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hall: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, madam chair. critics are still screaming at the top of their lungs that it's tyranny a government takeover of health care. these attacks are drowning out the truth. i'd like to set the record straight.

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John Hall: nothing in this law, not even that dreaded washington bureaucrat, will come between you and your doctor. think law does keep insurance company bureaucrats fm denying you care. secondly, we are actually increasing access to private health insurance. in return for those millions of new customers, however, insurance companies must end

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Todd Tiahrt: it's time to start telling the truth -- to start telling the truth anstop spreading fear. i urk my colleagues to pass the final piece of health reform. i yield back. e speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i'm happy to yield a minute to our friend from kansas, mr. tiahrt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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Todd Tiahrt: mr. tiahrt: i thank the gentleman from california. this rule should be brain. -- withdrawn. the senate bill is now law it's the greatest intrusion into our private lives we've seen under this congress. it's going to hurt our economy an cost us jobs. plus there are special provisions within the bill that's been signed into l that should have been corrected in the reconciliation bill but

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Todd Tiahrt: tennessee is also exempt from d.s.h., the frontier funding in counties in some rural areas are exempt and other rural areas are not. montana receives special benefits for asbestos, what about the other 49 states? and connecticut and michigan have got a handful of hospitals going to get higher medicare patients because of the

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Todd Tiahrt: gentlewoman from new york has 5 1/2 minutes remain, the gentleman from california has 6 1/2 minutes remaining. ms. slaughter: i will reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california.

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the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. hinojosa: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of this rule and the underlying legislation on health and higher education. i thank my colleagues in the senate for their courage in passing this htoric legislatn this afternoon by

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i'm proud of investments in $2 billion in community colleges and $2.5 billion in minority-serving institutions will bring us closer to billing a world-class education system for all students. it's estimated that texas will relieve $2.4 billion in pell grants 57bd a toal of $2.8

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Michael C. Burgess: friend, another medical doctor who is with us here, the gentleman from lewisville, texas, mr. burgess. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for the recognition. ironic, isn't it, two days ago a bill was signed that was going to fundamentally transform the way health care

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Michael C. Burgess: would be delivered in this country and 48 hours later, we're back on the floor of the house trying to fix the problems in this bill because, mr. speaker, we all know when the senate passed this bill christmas eve, they didn't intend for this bill to become law. this was never the vehicle that was intended to be passed through this house. this was a bill pass to get the senate out of town before a snowstorm on christmas eve.

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Michael C. Burgess: looking at us. but we did pass it. now we've got to come back and fix the problems. we'll be back next week and the week after that, this bill will require significant fixes, probably for the remainder of my lifetime on this earth. this was probably the worst product we could have put out for the american people. what about the insurance companies with their stock prices going up.

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Michael C. Burgess: pharma, they got everything way want. you have to buy brand name drugs and condition import from overseas. let's not kid ourselves about who was fooling who here. i have asked depr for the white house to give me information on the special deals cut in the white house but we can be the get that information. we get copies of press release we get copies of webpages. the white house has no interest

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Michael C. Burgess: i reached out my hando my committee chairman and got it slapped. we were there and ready to work, but you weren't interested in working with us. what was the bipartisan nature of the bill? we'll throw it over the transom over july 15, read it quick, we've got a markup in full committee the next day. this bill was never intended to pass this house. the senate passed this bill as a last-ditch ert on christmas

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: of his town halls and we had to repeal that bill. i ink we should follow the same trajectory here. i yield back the balance of my time. ms. slaughter: i yield one minute to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: have good news and i thank the gentlewoman from new york. while my colleagues are talking about process, which has been approved by a parliamentarian, and while profanity rains on our phones, we're saving lives. 45,000 who have died every year because they have not had insurance. no doctors offices have closed,

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: and go to a physician's office is expanded by $11 billion, they'll understand that medicaid has been expanded and right now individuals, 133% to 400% of poverty, can actually go and see a doctor. maybe the mother who has insurance that only covers the emergency room can now get her children preventative care. while they cry into the

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: she has remaining, mr. speaker? ms. slaughter: i have one more speaker. mr. dreier: one more speaker and then you plan to close? ms. slaughter: as soon as you have.

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Robert E. Andrews: at the blair house summit the minority said it would be a good idea to have new ways to cut back on fraud and abuse in medicare. so it's in the law the president signed on monday and in this underlying bill as well. the american people -- minority said they'd like a way for small businesses to pool together and make it easier to buy health insurance.

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Robert E. Andrews: see a way to cut back on lawsuits so it's in the bill the president signed on tuesday. there are many good ideas from both sides in this bill and on the law signed on tuesday but the best idea is to finally act after 40 years of promises, 40 years of powell tix, 40 years -- politics, 40 years of paralysis, 40 years of inaction.

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Robert E. Andrews: it is time to end the paralysis,

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Charles B. Rangel: end the politics and vote yes. ms. slaughr: did i misspeak, mr. rangel has come and i'd like to give him -- i guess i have a minute and a half left. mr. dreier: i reserve the balance of my time. ms. slaughter: all right, let me yield a minute to mr. rangel, the gentleman from new yk. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. rangel: thank you, madam chairperson. on this historic occasn, i

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Charles B. Rangel: that now is an opportunity even for those who fought this concept over the years and have fought all the coepts such as medicare and social security, to think about how they would like to be rembered. and i hope that that memory would be that even though the bill was not as perfect as they would want it to be, that they

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Charles B. Rangel: so i do hope that when the final

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David Dreier: tragically those of white house serve as members of congress for years have dealt with that -- of us who serve as members of congress have for years dealt with that and it's outrageous. mr. speaker, there is a high level of frustration over the process through which we have gone and there is an undersndable outrage from

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David Dreier: discrepancies for this is not the right thing to do. and it has never ever, since passage of the 1974 budget empower act, been used for su a monumental piece of legislation. we have tried desperately to work in a

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David Dreier: our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have a 70-seat majority and yet many of their members will be joining us as they did last sunday night i opposing this. why? because they know that this is badly flawed legislation. it's badly flawed legislation because, as we listen to so many

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David Dreier: well, $1 trillion, $500 billion in tax increases and tremendous uncertainty is not going it adequately address the challenges that we have. we all want to ensure that no one is denied access to health care because of pre-existing conditions. we can do that in a bipartisan way, but, mr. speaker,

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David Dreier: way to address that concern. as we look at the fact that we're back here tonight, because of those two amendments there were problems in the senate, the fact that we already have announced problems with the goal of ensuring that everyone has access, is not deniedccess because of pre-existing conditions, and when we look at