House Proceeding 11-03-09 on Nov 3rd, 2009 :: 5:11:09 to 5:22:06
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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: take our freedom away? when has that ever produced good results? and i just think, that's why rona country, because he saw all those different people that were americans that loved freedom.

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Steve King: and he didn't see all those political is he unanimous begans, the false promises --

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Speech By: Steve King

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Peter Hoekstra: shenanigans, the false promises. he didn't see that, he just saw all those freedom-loving people out there that chasing that dream that was in their hearts. mr. hoekstra: the other thing i think that they're telling us is, they're saying, before you take on health care, why don't you fix what you've already taken?

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

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Peter Hoekstra: and figure out whether, you know, no child left behind, the way it was designed and implemented, after eight years, we're now -- more people here believe that it doesn't work, but a whole lot of people in grassroots america are now saying, you know what? that doesn't work. it's kind of like, why don't you go back and maybe devolve the authority of no child left

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Peter Hoekstra: behind and let's take a di of the things with some of these other programs? you know, before you take on this massive responsibility, fix what you've already put into place. mr. akin: will the government ever give up power, though? mr. hoekstra: no, that's the problem. before you take this on, why don't you get back to a balanced

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Peter Hoekstra: budget? you know. it's the commonsense things that people, yoknow, it gets to be a phrase that gets overused but it's the things that people are doing around their kitchen table and they're doing around companies, around america today. i ran into some friends of mine from a company where i used it to work and, you know, the

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Peter Hoekstra: industry is down about 30%, the office furniture industry. and what they've done is, you know, the workers at the company, they've all had to sacrifice. th worked nine out of 10 days, the 10th day is the day off, it's a day they don't get paid for. an automatic 10% reduction in their pay. at the same time, you know,

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Peter Hoekstra: they're also now, they're not getting the same level of profit sharing, contribo 401-k's, their health care premiums or deductibles have gone up. they're f lost 15% to 20% of their income, discretionary income, over the last year. you see that in washington? no. we haven't made those decisions to get back to a balanced

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Peter Hoekstra: budget. mr. king: we've grown government.

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mr. hoekstra: we've grown government. we're a growing industry and we're growing it on the backs of our kids and grandkids. my constituents are saying, and all across the state, because we tried this in michigan, we tried to grow michigan's economy and make us more competitive by increasing taxes, increasing regulations and all those types of things and guess what? mr. president, you don't have to go talk to your economists to

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Steve King: figure out if your strategy's going to work. all you need to do is look at michigan. it doesn't work. what we need to do is we need to get back to the basics here. that's what my constituents are telling me. get back to the basics, don't try to take on more because you can't even handle what you've got.

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Speech By: Steve King

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Steve King: mr. king: i just went in and looked at a website, constitutiondaily and it has on it this, 682 federal agencies. now, think about what that means. you have subagencies, departments, 682 regulators and once thing you'll never sow is a sickle -- sing never see is

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Steve King: single company in america would be foolish enough to put on their website or announce that they're in compliance with all of the regulations that can be generated by 682 federal agencies, let alone the state agencies that are there. plus the taxes that are on top of that and all the bureaucrats that have to be paid for out of the profit of the private sector company. there's two sectors to this

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Steve King: economy. there's the private sector that produced goods and services and have value and the way you determine that value is if people are willing to pay for that service and does it -- is it essentially rood in the necessities of life? and then is the surplus income goes to recreational and those kind of investments, that's the private sector. the other sector, the government sector, is, and that's the

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Steve King: parasitic sector. it drains the vitality off of the private sector and this government has been growing and growing, the public sector, the government czar, raising -- increasing taxes, hiring more regulators for the 682gencies and they want to create more agencies out of this. 111 new agencies.

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Steve King: so our 682, that would be 793 agencies.

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Ted Poe: i have a list here of 111 new federal bureaucracies created by it's on both sides. mr. akin: is that a record? mr. king: the establishment of the national wildlife foundation. mr. akin: that's a record, isn't it? have we ever passed a bill and created 111 --

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Steve King: one's conceived of a bill this big before. mr. akin: the on thursday at 12:00, congressman king, you're going to be out there on the steps of the capitol? mr. king:ly will be on the steps of the capitol -- i will be on the steps of the capitol. i will be there with a large group of patriots, with yourselves, mr. akin, mr. hoekstra, myself, michele bachmann and others, we will be

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Speech By: Steve King

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Steve King: there standing up for freedom, mr. speaker, and so will the american people and so will jon voight and so will mark lavigne. we're going see a gathering of patriots that speak up and speak out to preserve and protect the freedom that our founding fathers and everyone who has put on a uniform to defend this country has defended in e way

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Steve King: or another and many patriots that didn't put on a uniform that stood up for america and i can imagine, blue collarred people, white collarred people, retired people, young people, looking across washington, d.c., they've been wondering, what can i do, what can i do? and deciding, i'm going to climb in my car, my detroit-made car, my michigan-made car -- mr. hoekstra: we hope so.

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Steve King: mr. king: and driveway ive -- drive that across the countryside, whatever it takes, park here and take the metro in because parking's going to be hard but join these people, be a throng coming here to the capitol, to washington, d.c., and some of them will decide they can't afford the time and they will go to district offices street, i know there will be a

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Steve King: ceremonial reading of the bill in at least one location out a

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Ted Poe: district office. that will take at least 48 hours for anyone to fast read th this 1,990-page bill. mr. akin: but if you do, there are a lot of interesting trap doors, smoke and mirrors in that bill. a lot of very interesting things. one of them that i thought was absolutely amazing, we talk

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: about tort reform, that is limiting the punitive damages,

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Speech By: Steve King

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Steve King: and different states have passed that and had t dropping their medical insurance

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: costs in the state by as much as 20%, it's my understanding. texas had very, very good effect by dropping that. this bill has a different kind of tort reform.

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Steve King: it says any state that's done tort reform, y of the medical benefits at your taxes are going to go for. it's a reverse tort. .

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Speech By: Steve King

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Peter Hoekstra: mr. king: how do you reform tort if you can't limit attorneys' fees or impose caps on damages? you can fly, but we're going to cut your wings off. the gentleman from michigan. mr. hoekstra: they talk about this being a national health care bill and we know what the speaker is going through right now to get the last votes.

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

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Peter Hoekstra: can you tell me how they got the votes of the congress person from hawaii? mr. king: i do not know. mr. akin: you got me. what's the story? mr. hoekstra: the bill doesn't apply to hawaii. it is in the first couple of

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Peter Hoekstra: hundred pages hawaii has done bill, i believe it's in the first three p mr. akin: what is hawaii going to do. mr. king: i may go to hawaii if this bill passes. mr. akin: they may have done bad

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Peter Hoekstra: hawaii is exempt. all these people that are exempt is congress and hawaii. mr. king: that would be. i don't know if that's all the answer mr. hoekstra: these are the surprises you will find as you read through 1,990 pages.

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Steve King: this isn't about the quantity and quality of health care but getting the votes to grab that from the american people. mr. king: is hawaii exempt from

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Speech By: Steve King

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Peter Hoekstra: the tax increaseand lack of tort reform and all of these things that are bad. mr. hoekstra: that is on page 492. mr. king: are they empt from funding from funding abortions, tax increases or medicare cuts? mr. hoekstra: the commission shall decide that.

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

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Peter Hoekstra: mr. king: is it a czar, commissier. mr. king: i call him a commiss czar issuer.

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Ted Poe: mr. hoekstra: the people can make their voices heard and this special order tonight. mr. akin: congressman king, thank you initiative as a member of congress to call the people of

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Steve King: america to come to their capitol building and express their opinion. mr. king: we stand together in our call for freedom and the call for the american people. come to this capitol, thursday at noon, day after tomorrow, let your voices be heard and thousands of americans come to this city,e will be able to own the health insurance policy

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Speech By: Steve King

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Steve King: that you choose and keep the government's hands off of our health care and those who can't come, come to district offices or pick up the phone.

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ame comprehensive amnesty twice, we can shut down socialized medicine. we can do thursday. thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman who have joined me and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman have a motion. mr. hoekstra: i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the