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Erik Paulsen: you and gives glory to this nation and your holy name both now and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from

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Erik Paulsen: minnes mr. paulsen: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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Charlie Wilson: we have to reduce our deficit spending. if we don't we will not be able to invest in vitally important priorities like health care, education and clean energy. pay-go is very simple. all the policies that cut taxes or reduce revenues must be paid for, offset in five

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John A. Boehner: got to cut back in other areas. it's about time that our same rule. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the ty mr. boehner: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boehner: mr. speaker,

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John A. Boehner: before i came to congress, i ran a small business. and in that small business i offered a health insurance benefit to my employees. i offered a pension benefit to my employees. both of these plans were as a result of a 1974 federal law called erisa, the employee retirement income security act, that allows employers to offer retimplete plans to their

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John A. Boehner: street journal" there's a provision in there that in their bill after five years all employer plans will have to be approved by the department of labor and the new health choices commissioner who will set federal standards for what is an acceptable health plan.

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John A. Boehner: it. and under their plan, if you're an employer and you don't provide health insurance you have to pay an 8% payroll tax to the federal government. 8%. now, most employers probably pay more than this for their health care, and so as a result, i would think a people are going -- a lot of employers are just going to pay

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John A. Boehner: this is not what the american people want. and if you put an 8% tax on payroll, guess what? employers are going to hire less people, and most of my constituents are asking, where are the jobs? and if you tax employment rough this health care plan or you tax employment under

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Ann Kirkpatrick: we need our economy going again we employers and taxing employment because we're going to get a lot less of it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from arizona rise? ms. kirkpatrick: i ask permission to address the house for one minute.

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Ann Kirkpatrick: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. kirkpatrick: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the statutory pay-as-you-go act. this commonsense measure will help bring fiscal responsibility back to washington. with the national debt at almost 11.6 trillion dollars, congress needs to start showing some discipline. i launched my do more with less

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Ann Kirkpatrick: original co-sponsor of the pay-go bill. by requiring that congress offset spending dollar for dollar, this legislation will ensure that washington makes the tough chces it takes to get our country back on track. pay-go helped produce the budget surpluses of the late 1990's and it will help us

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Eric Cantor: they've had enough of the stimulus bill that's wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and not staved off job loss. they have had enough with the national energy tax that will impose extraordinary job killing taxes on the people of this country, and now, mr. speaker, they've had enough of talk of a health care bill that not only will fail to deliver the access and quality that we

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Joe Baca: where are the jobs? congress and this administratn have been asleep for too long and we can do the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. baca: mr. speaker, i ask unanimou the house for one minute. the spea without objection.

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Joe Baca: mr. baca: american health system is not working. we can not stay with the failing system that we now -- we cannot stay with the failing system that we now have. what good is an insurance card if there's no real access to service? what good is the current system if i have a senior under medicare, like in my district,

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Joe Baca: i stand here to advocate for a viable public option to compete with the private sector. i stand here to advocate for the american families, and i say the american families who are busting at the seams who are trying to meet their ends by hoping that one day that they won't get sick and they'll have the coverage. i urge my colleagues to

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Mike Pence: people are asking, mr. president, where are the jobs? make no mistake about it, the president's health care bill will do nothing to lower the cost of health care and would be a disaster for the american economy. if obama care passes, according to the experts, if obama care passes, you'll probably lose your health insurance and you

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Travis Childers: for the sake of our economy and reform, i implore my democratic colleagues, say no to a government takeover of health care and higher taxes and say yes to a bipartisan majority in this congresthat is committed to fiscal and putting americans back to work. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Travis Childers: for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the ho minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. chilleder: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege to come to the house floor toy to express my steadfast support for pay-as-you-go legislation that is scheduled to be introduced this week. as a member of the fiscally

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Travis Childers: the bills have to be paid. going from a $5 trillion debt at the end of the clinton administration to a now over $11 trillion debt, it is not hard to imagine the daily frustrations i see every weekend at home on the faces of individuals and families struggling in this economic downturn. it is time for congress to start operating just as the

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Cathy McMorris: law of the land. i urge all of my colleagues to join me in s landmark legislation. time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose doe gentlewoman from washington rise? mrs. mcmorris rodgers: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore:

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Cathy McMorris: without objection. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: the health care version currently being debated in congress is recognized and called by many as a prescription for disaster, disaster as it relates to ensuring quality and affordable health care, and disaster as to the impact it would have on our economy. governors across the country, republicans and democrats, are fearful it will only add

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Cathy McMorris: and driving our nation more deeply into debt. there's many reasons to be skeptical of this plan. the job loss, the additional debt, the government intrusion between you and your doctor and your health care decisions. some continue to say it's better than nothing.

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Jim McDermott: up and up and up and up who do not have health insurance. so here they are all here again today one at a time. folks, they're here to scare yoagain. mr. speaker, the people are smarter this time. in the election of 2008, they

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Jim McDermott: the door and shined them up for 2008 and heaid, here's what

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John R. Carter: yes, the democrats have given us some jobs. they have given this cap and tax bill, which is going to stick a tax collector in everybody's pocket, destroys small businesses and destroy jobs. they have given us 33 czars at $

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Ed Perlmutter: that's a new job they want to create. they've got this idea that if they throw enough money to acorn they will create jobs and keep the indictments away from them. these are not jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. fo gentleman from colorado rise? mr. perlmutter: to address the

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Ed Perlmutter: house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. perlmutter: i appreciate my friends wanting to talk about jo. the arguments they want to pursue, but don't want to let the facts get in the way of their argument. and let's start with the report we received today from the federal reserve. we know that jobs fell off a cliff last fall and earlier this

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Ed Perlmutter: small declines in temporary jobs and employment in nonbusiness services turned up in may and increased further in june. that's why we have the stock market going up. that's why consumer confidence is going up because this is

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David Dreier: trillion and now you plan to take over the entire health care system in this country. he said it would be devastating. and i'm looking for a job as a truck driver again. and with what you have done on cap and trade, it's going to undermine my ability to do that. the message is loud and clear.

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Walter Minnick: people to democrats and republicans alike in this congress. where are the jobs? the speaker pro teore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho rise? >> aress the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

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Walter Minnick: objection. milk milk mr. speaker, today congress will consider a law requiring that what every taxpayer must do, something very simple and basic, pay for what we spend. 10 years ago, thinking it didn't need fiscal discipline, congress abandoned this commonsense approach and went on a spending

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Walter Minnick: dollars on money borrowed from china and meench oil states to pay our bills. this can't continue. it's time to grow up and act like responsible adults and return to fiscal santi.