House Proceeding 11-06-09 on Nov 6th, 2009 :: 0:20:00 to 0:40:00
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Speech By: Frank R. Wolf

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Frank R. Wolf: of our debt. the saudis who funded the radical madrassahs and some who were on the airplanes that killed the people on 9/11, 30 more or so from my congressional district, holding our debt. we need to get control of this debt and the health care bill wi not lower costs, the health

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Frank R. Wolf: care bill will cost over $1 trillion, $1 trillion. what kind of legacy -- what kind of legacy are we leaving for our children? and i have five. or our grandchildren? and i have 14. a legacy of debt and deficit. $1 trillion for this health care bill. we have $57 trillion of unfunded

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Frank R. Wolf: obligations. we have $12 trillion in debt. so i close to vote against the bill because it costs us money

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: says, don't let debt defeat a great nation. and yield back the balance of my time. ms. ros-lehtinen: i reserve the balance of my time. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i'm please pleased to yield three minutes to the chairman of the asia pacific and global environment subcommittee,

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Speech By: Eni F. H. Faleomavaega

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: representative from american samoa, mr. faleomavaega. the speaker pro tempore: how much time? mr. berman: three. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. faleomavaega: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to extend and revise my remarks. and i certainly would like to thank the diinguished chairman of our foreign affairs committee and our senior ranking member, the gentlelady from florida, for their leadership, sponsorship

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: and certainly support for this important resolution. i also would like to particularly thank my colleague, the gentleman from oregon, for his authorship of this important bill. i think i know something about earthquakes since recently my own district was devastated by

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: an 8.3 the distance only about 120 miles south of samoa, travel being 500 miles per hour. the shock wave, it was a matter of minutes, we ended up with a 20-foot tsunami that caused tremendous devasta property, our homes and villages, and the deaths of many people.

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: so i do want to commend my good friend from oregon for his leadership and for raising this important issue to our colleagues. and also the two citizens who really wanted just to investigate how it was that because of faulty construction that these classrooms, these children died and the government of china did not allow these

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: investigations to go on. i have tremendous respect for republic of china. the peoples' republic of china -- the people's republic of china. given that they've only been in existence for 60 years.

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: living in china when it was established. yes, under communist rule china has evolved itself and it still has a lot of serious problems like any other country and, yes, i think also inimes that i have the want to express very much the concerns that i have that i think it's time, especially under the circumstances and how these

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Eni F. H. Faleomavaega: children ended up debt because of -- dead because of faulty the government refused to have this kind of investigation. and for which these two citizens were victimized and prosecuted and certainly abused by the this is not right. and i want to again thank my

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Gary G. Miller: good friend from oregon, david wu, for bringing this matter to the attention of our colleagues and i urge my colagues to support this resolution. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i'd like to yield four minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. miller, an esteemed member of

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Speech By: Gary G. Miller

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Gary G. Miller: the financial services and transportation committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. miller: thank you. i thank you for the time. the resolution before us deals with china and many of our jobs are going to go tchina if the health care bill the democrats are propose something enacted. the administration is using the american medical association and aarp to gash their support for

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Gary G. Miller: their health care bill. the a.m.a. delegates is meeting today inouston, tick. it's made up of elected representatives from across the country, representing doctors and members of the a.m.a. they meet to vote on policy issues affecting doctors. they're saying it was an unauthoriz vote prior to the delegates arriving that went to support this bill.

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Gary G. Miller: a.m.a. doctors are demanding a vote of no confidence against the board of directors. in fact, there are two resolutions that they're demanding to be heard tomorrow. one is from the rank and file membership and members of the house of delegates of the american medical association. it reads, we of the rank and file membership and the members of the house of delegates of american medical association do here object to your recent vote

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Gary G. Miller: supporting h.r. 3962 as the affordable health care act of america. wrars h.r. 3962 -- whereas h.r. 3962 will change health care in america. and prior to conving the house -- house of delegates and the

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Gary G. Miller: house of delegates has strong feelings, beliefs and grave misgavings with regarding h.r. 3962 and whereas the a.m.a. leadership has denied our leadership on this vitally important issue, we do hereby demand prior to addressing any item of business on current agenda immedia the rules of the house of delegates of the american

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Gary G. Miller: medical association and they call for full discussion and debate of h.r. 3962 including a vote of no confidence in our leadership by the members of the house of delegates. a very, very strong statement. the second resolution was filed and is called resolution 1006. it was introduced by the alabama delegation, the arkansas delegation, the

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Gary G. Miller: delaware delegation, the district of columbia delegation, the florida delegation, the georgia delegation, the kansas delegation, louisiana delegation, the new jersey delegation, the south carolina delegation, the american academy of rescon instructive surgery, the congress of neurological surgeons, the

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Gary G. Miller: american sew side of general surgeons and to the psychological society. it's to withdraw h.r. 3962. obviously there's a problem doctors are having with this bill. aarp has also come out and saying they represent seniors supporting this bill. but you have to look at this bill. i represent over 70,000

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Gary G. Miller: medicare eligible seniors in my district alone. the bill cuts over $500 billion out of medicare starting in 2010 including $23.9 billion in cuts to skilled nursing facilities, $143.6 billion in cuts to hospitals, including skilled nursing facilities,

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Gary G. Miller: long-term care facilities, in-patient rehabilitation facilities, psychiatric facilities, again, $143.6 billion in cuts to hospitals. and worse all, $170 billion in cuts to medicare advantage which effectively will eliminate medicare advantage in the future. you can't support this bill and sayou support seniors and you

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Gary G. Miller: support doctors who represent with unemployment over 10.2%, 29-year high, you include the individuals discouraged trying to find jobs and you can't find them and those underemployed who have part-time jobs and would really prefer to work full time. we have a problem in this country. we passed the stimulus bill

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Gary G. Miller: that said unemployment would not go above 8%. it's 10 tp 2% today. it said it would not go over 8% and lose more jobs and it lost over three million jobs since then we need to look at what we're

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: doing. we need to say we care about the a about those people who will be taxed to pay for this and we care about a system of health care that's the best in the world that will be ruined. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield to a very

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Speech By: Sheila Jackson-Lee

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: committee, the gentlelady from texas, ms. sheila jackson lee, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i thank the distinguished chairman and i thank the distinguished ranking member for coming together around the legislation of my friend, mr. wu from oregon. and, mr. speaker, i want to

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: recapture the moment why we're here on this floor today. we will have an opportun for there to be a vigorous debate on this reform which by the way, mr. speaker, the american medical association has indicated their recognition of the importance

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: of this legislation. but i think it's important for us to recapture the horrific scenes those of us who are parents, those of us who are engaged with children during the tragedy of the in china on may 12, we looked in horror as rescue

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: workers worked feverishly to draw out children, limp bodies covered with dirt and dust, crying parents, some losing more than one being where they were supposed to be, in school, just as any other who during our lifetime have dropped our precious souls off at a school building.

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: you can imagine what the outcry and the pain. just go back to that time and see the video of parents on their knees screaming, maybe in prayer, to ask for mercy. maybe to hope that their child either would be found or the limp body was not their child.

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: can you imagine two wonderful, heroic individuals, huang qi and tan zuoren who came to speak for those voiceless parents, many of them oppressed by unfortunately the structure of china even though it is a coun have democratic and

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: constitutional rights these individuals were working to get the truth, what happened, why did most of the school buildings fall as they did, what kind of cheap constructio cheap that they didn't have focus? this resolution recots that these individuals who are human rights activists were literally picked up by plain

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: police and arrested on charges of illegally possessing state all they were trying to do is give voice to the voiceless to recognize that truth had to be found. when huang's closed trial was held and according to the

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: nongovernmental organization in kidnapped a volunteer for the human rights center to prevent him from testifying on huang's behalf. and so there are a lot of violations. in fac their own constitutional rights , and when they reached out to volunteers they de that right.

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: will the gentleman yield me an additional minute? mr. berman: please to yield the gentlelady one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman. so when they reached out to try others to tell the truth or have the truth told for these parents, these mourning parents, these parents without children, and we all know about

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: china's birth control policy, some may have had only child. each child is precious. so i rise today to support providing these human rights activists with the rights that all chinese citizens have under article 35 and 41 of china's cons of speech and association and the right to make suggestions

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: to officials free of suppression and retaliation. and i ask for a human rights plan for china. it is time to tell the truth

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Lee Terry: but it is also time that china rises to recognize the rigs of all the citizens and the right to promote human rights. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i'd like t four minutes to the gentleman from nebraska, terry, a member of the committee on energy and

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Speech By: Lee Terry

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Lee Terry: commerce. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. mr. terry: thank you, mr. speaker. and i too rise in support of this resolution and commend my friend and colleague and classmate from oregon. he and i share something. we both have children about similar ages, elementary school, now middle school ages, and i can't think of anything horrific than your children

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Lee Terry: dying when the buildings collapse upon them and the frustration of the parent who just wants answers. and when i think about those buildings collapsing on those children about the incompetency of a large centralized government that's in charge of every facet of their economy.

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Lee Terry: and here we are faced this weekend with the debate of whether or not we'reoing to move our government in that same direction of building a huge bureaucracy, one that will be thousands of miles away, one that tonet have the passion and interest other than just

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Lee Terry: passing paper around desks and realizing that their lack of interest allows for this waste and the fraud and the abuse that's inherent to the buildings that collapsed in sichuan. i fear as we grow our massive governmenand bureaucracy to manage the government's portion

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Lee Terry: of the health care, taking over 18% of our economy as to whetr we are going to have to live with that level of incompetency of waste, fraud and abuse. think of those schools collapsing and that equal -- how our health care will be run in this country. and another thing that the gentleman from virginia said, and i want to associate myself with his remarks.

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Lee Terry: this is a $1.2 trillion bill. and yeah, they raised a lot of taxes to be able to pay for it and some of it is $500 billion out of medicare, my worry is that that $500 billion out of medicare really isn't going to be cut. it's just going to go to our national debt. and therefore we are going to have to rely on china to buy that debt from us. again, relying on them.

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Lee Terry: notice that this resolution condemns the action of the chinese government for their humanitarian violations but there's no penalties see, when there are creditors and they own us like they do and wi continue to own more of us when we have to sell our debt to th, it limits our abilities to sit down and

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Lee Terry: negotiate with them. did you notice that the last couple of administration officials that have gone or that have gone to china haven't brought up human rights violations with china? well, that's because they know they got us by the and we can't do that or they

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Lee Terry: can do such things as flood the world's economy with our debt, ruining our dollars and further jeopardizing our economy and more jobs. but then again, maybe the bright side of this health care bill perhaps costing as many as

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Bill Cassidy: can go to china and hel rebuil i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. yield two minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. cassidy, a member of the committee's agriculture, education and natural resources.

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Speech By: Bill Cassidy

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Bill Cassidy: -- of the committees agriculture, education and natural resources. the speaker gentleman is recognized. mr. cassidy: one thing that happened is as the buildings fall upon folks and this causes kidney failure. after katrina, there were many people on dialysis that had to be evacuated from new orleans

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Bill Cassidy: to baton rouge and there had to be an emergency dialysis facility established. the current system is the elastiesity in this country that doesn't exist elsewhere. and while i toured thos dialysis centers in my city, it

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Bill Cassidy: was kept afloat by those who have private insurance. many of those patients are on medicare and medicaid. medicaid pays 60% of costs and medicare pays about 90% of costs. so were it not for the private insurance payers paying overcosts we would not have the ability to treat the dialysis patients here or in the emergency situations those that are evacuated.

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Bill Cassidy: and it brings to mind immediately the health care bill that is before us, that it attempts to expand the system of medicaid and medicare that is actually on the -- that is actually depriving our system of the resources it needs to care more carefully for those who are in times of natural disaster. that

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Bill Cassidy: a clear desire which is admirable to control costs in this bill. but paradoxically, the c.b.o. says this bill, which supposedly controls costs, will have an inflation rate of 8% per year. so 8% per year more than doubles costs in 10 years, mr. speaker. it's ironic when the president says that if we do nothing costs will double in 10 years. if we do this bill, according

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Bill Cassidy: to the congressional budget office, costs will more than tubble in the next 10 years. and so i guess, mr. speaker, in closing i would say that there's three imperatives to health care reform. it's controlling costs so we can expand access to quality care. we've seen in other countries where there's inadequate resources placed or inadequate attention to costs that indeed

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Bill Cassidy: these are not addressed. i'd as

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Jack Kingston: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. cassidy: we reject this reform for the dilatory effect upon this system. thank you. ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i'm pleased to yield the remainder of our time to the gentleman from georgia, mr. kingston, a member of the committee on appropriations.

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Speech By: Jack Kingston

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Jack Kingston: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kingston: i ank the gentlewoman's time has expired and when i think of china i think of this health care plan. centralized plan, that's what it is. and mr. speaker, i know that you and so many others have be reading this 1,990-page monstrosity which some peo

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Jack Kingston: think is going to save health care. i think rather it will save the bureaucracy. which have yet to be amended with another amendment called the manager's amendment. now what goes into the manager's amendment is kind of what is the result of having

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Jack Kingston: what did you get for your twisted arm? it will be in the manager's amendment which is not in these 1,990 pages. but what is? premium increases. tax increases. medicare cuts. bureaucrats between you and your doctor.