House Proceeding 10-27-09 on Oct 27th, 2009 :: 2:38:40 to 2:40:25
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Michael C. Burgess: we should focus on ensuring medicare continues to be there for our seniors, not cutting the benefit to fund an unproven proposal. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. burgess: rise and address the house, r extend my remarks. thank you, mr. speaker, in august i hosted two round tables

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Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

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Michael C. Burgess: with small and medium sized businesses in north texas. parts of health care reform are going to affect business, like it or not. they're going to see a tax increase, a new employer mandate, penalties for noncompliance. the north texas business representative says they need more tools, not regulations, to make health care more affordable for small businesses.

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Michael C. Burgess: one panelist explained that this would add to the burden of curing what are argua economic times. the individual who was health benefits manager at a large manufacturing plant in denton says our employees are already taken care of. if more is mandated on us we're going to have to look at what we will cut. what we're going to take away in

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Michael C. Burgess: order to continue to be competitive. another individual, if we have to purchase health insurance, we simply will not be able to afford to do so. we will have to cut jobs. i promised to make the lessons learned back to washington, d.c., as we continue to work on health care reform. most americans today are concerned more about jobs and the economy than t

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Michael C. Burgess: health care propos de washington should be working to help businesses create jobs, n writing penalties for those who are trying to -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentle for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend. objection. mr. scalise: mr. speaker, as a

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Michael C. Burgess: heart surgeon, i saw patients first-hand in our current government-run programs like