House Proceeding 10-28-09 on Oct 28th, 2009 :: 2:57:05 to 2:59:10
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2:57:02 to 2:57:23( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: their bill is nothing more than a government takeover with taxes and mandates that the american people don't want. mr. akin: i appreciate your perspective. it seemed to me that one of the dangerous things to do is have an agenda and figure out some excuse to give you a chance to do what you wanted to do before you even started. it almost seems as though

2:57:05 to 2:59:10( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Todd Tiahrt

2:57:24 to 2:57:44( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: instead of taking a look at the system, selectively saying, let's take one of the hardest things, pre-existing conditions, that is a tough nut to crack. let's focus on that and get republicans and democrats together to take this one nut, dine what we want to do and see if we can't fix that one problem. instead, it was, we don't need

2:57:45 to 2:58:05( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: your opinion at all. our staffers will write the bill. we'll talk about it. cut some deals. we don't have enough votes to pass it, so we will have to do something for the insurance companies so they don't have any liability in certain situations and do a deal with -- and you start putting the deals together so you get enough votes to pass

2:58:06 to 2:58:26( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: it and you cobble something together in the dark of night and bring it to the floor an hope nobody reads it too closely, because if you look at the details, you won't like it, instead of -- maybe it's a little bit more deliberate, but you define what the problem is and you say ok, let's put all of our resources.

2:58:27 to 2:58:49( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: any ideas, ok. and let's just have a good and the american plic can be part of it and see what it is. and we didn't do that in this big bail o stimulus bill. and that's what made people -- really made people mad. and that huge big cap and tax bill over here, you know, to

2:58:50 to 2:59:10( Edit History Discussion )

Todd Tiahrt: have 1,000-page bill with 30 pages of amendments passed at 3:00 in the morning, not a copy on the floor and we are voting on this thing, biggest tax increase that the house just passed a number of months ago, it makes people upset and they say, wait a minute, you guys at least could read the bill. no, we couldn't read the bill.