House Proceeding 10-26-09 on Oct 26th, 2009 :: 2:11:00 to 2:16:05
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2:10:56 to 2:11:16( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: just rhetorically but literally, madam speaker, but i'd be very happy to yield so much time as he may consume friend, mike burgess interest texas. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i was on a conference call a little while ago w started. i saw you going through those charts and they do look terribly

2:11:00 to 2:16:05( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

2:11:17 to 2:11:39( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: complex and lest anyone who's watching your discussion of those charts think that, well, perhaps the good geneman from iowa has just engaged in a little pitical hyperbole, perhaps he's overstating the case for the purposes of discussion, but, you know, when you look at the bill, h.r. 3200,

2:11:40 to 2:12:02( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: there's a lot of words contained in here. we have this bill in my committee, it was also debated and voted for in the committee on ways and means, the committee on education and wk force. we all ended up with a little different product at the end. this bill ended up being about 1,000 pages in my committee. 1,000 pages has rooms for a lot

2:12:03 to 2:12:23( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: of twists and turns and rabbit runs and dead ends as the gentleman from iowa so eloquently expressed. but that was july 31. and here we are near the end of october. so we have volume 1 and volume 2 of the same bill. i would submit that the gentleman, if anything, is

2:12:24 to 2:12:44( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: guilty of perhaps not having a grasp that's complicated enough because this bill has expanded beyond anyone's reasonable belief of what this bill should be. now, madam speaker, i would submit to you the 1,000-page bill here. it scared people for a good reason.

2:12:45 to 2:13:06( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: it scared people when we were in charge and they scare people now. they he scare people because they don't think we're going to read this. they don't think we're going to take this insurance ourselves, they know that their taxes are going to go up and their freedoms are going to go down so thousand-page bills scare people. but we all agree that something needs to be done, reform is necessary, it would be so straight forward to pick those

2:13:07 to 2:13:27( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: things that need attention, work on those problems, deliver for the american people and not scare them so close to halloween with now 2,000-page bills or 2,400 pages. parts of this are duplicative and even contradictory because no one has gone through and real means did, what

2:13:28 to 2:13:49( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: commerce did. it's kind of a merged product that we have now. and it really doesn't matter because this bill that was delivered to me on friday afternoon really should go right into the round file. the actual bill is written in the speaker's rooms even as we speak. i suspect the gn on bills are over there crafting away on the legislative

2:13:50 to 2:14:11( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: language, probably a heavy dose of input from down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. i bet you wouldn't find any republicans or any back bench democrats and isn't it eye ron take the president who stood on the floor of this house and said he'd be open and straight forward to the american people, all of these processes would be

2:14:12 to 2:14:32( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: above board, on the daylight, on c-span, and it's all being conducted in the dark, in the speaker's office, the doors are closed and locked, mr. king isn't allowed in the room, i'm not allowed in the room, no republicans are allowed in the room and my of the rank and file democrats are not allowed in the room as well. what will happen now is this bill writ innocent speaker's office will come to us -- written in the speaker's office

2:14:33 to 2:14:53( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: will come to us at some point, they've grashesly allowsed you us -- you grashesly allowed us 72 hours to read the bill, it's not likely that it has deminute -- diminished in size with all of these people working on it. we have 72 hours to review the bill. you'll have 72 hours, mam

2:14:54 to 2:15:15( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: speaker, the people of america will have 72 hours with the bill to review what's in there. and then we'll vote. and we'll vote and it will -- a vote will cast not just to affect the rest of health care, the rest of our natural lifetime but the rest of our children's natural lifetime and the lifetime of our children's children.

2:15:16 to 2:15:36( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: that is the implication of what is contained herein. the us with a thousand-page bill. they don't trust with us a 2,000-page bill but there are some things they want fixed. isn't it ironic we have pageses in this bill dealing with the type of language services you must offer in hospitals and doctors offices and not a single word about

2:15:37 to 2:15:57( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: liability reform? and yet and yet the congressional budget office in a letter to or enhatch or a letter to member of the other body said we could sav$54 billion if we elect the right kind of liability reform. why wouldn't we do that? we also had the event last week where the nations doctors were told, sorry, we can't help you,

2:15:58 to 2:16:05( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: you're going to get some bad pay cuts over the next 10 years but there's nothing we can do to stop it and -- because we don't have the money to do s well, why not take that $54