House Proceeding 11-04-09 on Nov 4th, 2009 :: 1:00:05 to 1:02:35
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Peter Hoekstra: going to get the shortened of that stick. seniors are fearful, rightfully so, be denied treatments and going to have ration of care. i see mr. hoekstra at the bit and wants to jump in here, too. i yield to mr. ho hoax mr. hoekstra: we did a telephone

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

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Peter Hoekstra: asking, when's this bill going to come up? the plan is to come up on saturday. and then they say, well, why. the senate has said they're not going to vote on this bill or they're not going to vote on health care reform until when? the majority leader has said they aren't going to do this

1:00:37 to 1:00:57( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: until after the first of the year. we have 1,990 pages plus 40. we are not only have to read it but understand it in seven days opportunity to go back to our constituents and say what do you think of this? or explain it to them and

1:00:58 to 1:01:21( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: the two bills, the difference in approaches, government takeover of health care, freedom for you and more opportunity for you to select your heal care. and these folks, take an extra week. we a veterans day. why not schedule town hall meetings?

1:01:22 to 1:01:42( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: we saw the impact of this yeed, all right, where people around the country sent a clear message to the white house and leadership of thi saying, we don't like the arrogance with which washington is treating our concerns and our

1:01:43 to 1:02:03( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: this stuff, we aren't going to have an opportunity to provide an insight or perspective on these bills to our representatives in congress and they're going to ram this through. and the end result is, they sent a clear message and s across the message. they sent it in virginia, new jersey, michigan.

1:02:04 to 1:02:24( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: all across the country saying, if this is the change that we are looking at, if this is the change that came as a result of the elections last year, we sure don't like it. and there's an saying we are going to force this force this on the american

1:02:25 to 1:02:35( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: people without providing them with the opportunity to provide them feedback. my colleague and all of us are excited about this process saying if we can't take this american people are going to