House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 2:26:40 to 2:35:57
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Paul Braun, Jr.: jobs. they aren't new jobs in the private sector. they'll government jobs that will have to somehow be continued and sustained. mr. broun: we would have created 73,000 more jobs in georgia alone under the republican proposal at half the cost. and we would not have borrowed

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Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

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Yvette Clarke: any money at all. we would not have borrowed from our grandchildren like the stimulus bill or nonstimulus bill did. mrs. bachmann: if the gentleman would yield, the cost of these jobs in the stimulus were easily $300,000 per job. some of these jobs were $650,000 per job that they created. mrgarrett: as a matter of

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Speech By: Yvette Clarke

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Yvette Clarke: fact, i was just going to raise that point. as i'm standing here ltening to your facts, i'm looking down at the floor in the well and i see president obama's budget and the three po the take-away from tonight, spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much. spends too much of our current hard-earned dollars that everybody has to work so hard each day to earn. it taxes too much on the american family and the small business and the farmer and it

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Yvette Clarke: borrows too much from our children and our grandchildren. because they will be the ones who actually spend -- pay for all of this. on the spending side of the equation, i know it's hard to get your hands around some of these numbers sometimes, you just did when you gave the number as far as -- first it was $2 million, then it was $3 million -- two million, then it

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Yvette Clarke: was three million, then was four million jobs this administration said it was going to save. it couples to around $300,000 per job that they're going to be spending to save. boy, there's a heck of a lot of people in my district, even more down in georgia, who would love to have a $300,000 job. even if it is only for a week, a month or half a year. and that's the type of jo the way that the government's creating.

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Yvette Clarke: short-term jobs. these are not careers and once this job, you know, screwing in light bulbs i think was one or painting aence, once the job's done, that job's done. so on the spenng side equation, you were alluding to this before, what it means is we're getting to the point where around -- over 1/4 of all

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Yvette Clarke: the growth in wealth of th country, all the growth wealth, over -- around 27% is going to be sucked right out of this country, across the borders, my picture here of the united states, and brought right here in to o'-- to washgton for this body and all the brats to spend however they want to -- bureaucrats to spend however they want to.

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Yvette Clarke: is that what people want? and taxing too much, well, you hit the numbers before as far as the tax rates. and how it's going to hit on the families and budget and the last one, on borrowing too much, the debt of this country, and it's impossible to wrap your hands around these things but the debt of this country, the public debt, will reach 58.7% of the g.d.p. this year and eventually rise to 2/3 of

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Yvette Clarke: g.d.p. in just a short -- in a couple of years. last time it was like that was in the early 1950's after the war and it's been on a steady

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Paul Braun, Jr.: decline ever since then. now we have a rocketship going right back up again, all in the last three months, projected -- mr. broun: would the gentleman yield? e sad thing is our children to live at a lower standard. their standard of live something going to be lower than ours today.

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Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: because they're going to be saddled with this huge debt. you cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. and in fact our president has came, if you all remember, came and told the republican conference that he wasn't going to make the same mistake that franklin roosevelt made when f.d.r. got scared and quit

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Paul Braun, Jr.: spending. he said, our president, was going to continue to spend. and -- it's just wrong. that policy during the depression did not get us out of that depression. warren buffet said he thinks we've been pushed off the -- warren buffett said he thinks we got pushed off the edge and our economy is heading into a very severe depression or

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Paul Braun, Jr.: recession and we may well be. i hope and pray that we aren't. but i know this. every single thing that this administration and the leadership in this house and this senate have proposed is going to hurt our economy. it's going to deepen the recession, it's going to prolong it and may push us into a severe depression. we keep hearing this is the

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Paul Braun, Jr.: worst economic times since the grt depression. no. this is the worst time since jimmy carter and those failed policies and what our president has done is he's bght into that philosophy that keynesian economic policy which is socialism and that's exactly what he's ught into and in

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Paul Braun, Jr.: fact the way i've described it in some speeches is we have a steamroller of socialism being shoved down the throats of the american people, it's going to strangle the american economy and it's going to slay the american people economically. and it's going to. and that steamroller of socialism is being driven by nancy pelosi and harry reid and we've got to stop it because

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Paul Braun, Jr.: it's going to hurt the poor people in this country. it's going to hurt the small business men and women in this country, it's going to hurt the most economically disadvantaged in thi country and we have policies that we're proposing that will actually help small businesses, that will create jobs.

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: it will create paychecks instead of -- instead of welfare checks. that's exactly what we're trying to promote. is giving people a paycheck instead of a welfare check mrs. bachmann: if the gentleman would yield, we haven't even talked yet about socialized medicine. we talked a little bit about cap tanned axe. we haven't even talked about socialized medicine. find me one model anywhere in

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Speech By: Michelle Marie Bachmann

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: the world where socialized medicine has delivered better carat a cheaper cost. you want to talk about tax increases. socialized medicine will break the bank in the united states. now president obama even voted for the schip bill which we know will for the first time swing the door wide open for illegal aliens.

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Michelle Marie Bachmann: i know one thing, the people in my district are not interested in paying for the health care for illegal aliens that are coming across our border to be yet one more magnet to people in that should come here legally. that's a very real concern that

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Yvette Clarke: we're addressing and that's why i think people are so concerned right now about what they're seeing on the tax incline. mr. garrett: the health care issue is something we're all concerned about. we know too many people who are in small business who say i just can't affor to buy insurance for my employees because the price of it.

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Speech By: Yvette Clarke

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Yvette Clarke: we know too many individuals who are not working right now and they say they cannot afford to pay for the health insurance costs, not because doctors charge too much because we have a doctor right here, just because of the nature and thesome sta -- system that we have in place. the system we have right now, again, to get back to the facts, we do not have a free market health care system in this country. we have a government-regulated

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Yvette Clarke: system in this country. but we do agree, the three of us here believe, that we do have a problem with health care affordability for a vast majority of the americans and we do need to address that. but you do not address that as is done in president obama's budget which spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much, but putting in place holders of $634 billion which

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Yvette Clarke: we do not have today, which goes to -- which borrows too much. that to pay for our health care today basically will come from our kids and our grandkids. you do not solve the affordability issue in spending more money and taxing more money. do you it by ways i know the good doctor has addressed, by reforming the system, getting out inefficiencies in the

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Yvette Clarke: system, providing for the competition on various levels of the system, to basically overhauling the system to make sure that health care is available to every american citizen, young and old alike.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: we have talked about that on the floor before. we need to move that. spending, taxing and borrowing is not going to fix the health care system and i yield back. mr. broun: let me tell you about one government regulation that came into the health care system

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Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

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Paul Braun, Jr.: much government regulation increases the cost for all of us. i had a small automated lab with quality controls because when i did tests, i wanted to make sure the tests were appropriate, and that they gave good results so i could treat my patients in the best way. this -- congress passed a bill

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Paul Braun, Jr.: signed into law called the clinical laboratory improvement act. the patient came in to see me with a red sore throat and -- ipted to find out if they had a bacterial infection or viral infection, i would do a c.b.c., costs $12 and do it in five

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minutes. clia shut down my lab, had to send them to the hospital, it co the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time is expired. mrs. bachmann: thank you, madam speaker, we yield back.