House Proceeding 11-03-09 on Nov 3rd, 2009 :: 1:08:50 to 1:10:35
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Dana Rohrabacher: your children are going to pay this off with less opportunities than we have today. we are going in the wrong direction for the dream for our children in america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask permission to address

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Speech By: Dana Rohrabacher

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Dana Rohrabacher: the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker, we heard lots of stories today and it's touched our hearts and we know there are people out there suffering because we have some major problems with our health care system. we know that there are uninsured people because the costs are just too high, they're priced out of the market or they have a pre-existing condition.

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Dana Rohrabacher: we know that, for example, there's not interstate competition that goes on that boosts up the costs along with the fact that we have exce litigation in our society. we could have fixed these issues so that everybody could be covered. the republicans were willing to do it but we were frozen out of this whole system because the democrats didn't want to reform the system, they wanted to transform our current health care system into a

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Dana Rohrabacher: government-run bureaucratic federal program. and they were doing that at the expense of seniors where $400 billion is being taken out of the medicare funds at the expense of small business and at the expense of people currently insured who will be turn

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Dana Rohrabacher: system. this is a travesty. we should have worked but the democrats wouldn't do it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> to address the body for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise too address my serious

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Dana Rohrabacher: concerns about the health care bill that's being rushed to the floor. this 2,000-page-plus bill has