House Proceeding 11-06-09 on Nov 6th, 2009 :: 0:23:35 to 0:28:00
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Gary G. Miller: good friend from oregon, david wu, for bringing this matter to the attention of our colleagues and i urge my colagues to support this resolution. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i'd like to yield four minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. miller, an esteemed member of

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Speech By: Gary G. Miller

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Gary G. Miller: the financial services and transportation committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. miller: thank you. i thank you for the time. the resolution before us deals with china and many of our jobs are going to go tchina if the health care bill the democrats are propose something enacted. the administration is using the american medical association and aarp to gash their support for

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Gary G. Miller: their health care bill. the a.m.a. delegates is meeting today inouston, tick. it's made up of elected representatives from across the country, representing doctors and members of the a.m.a. they meet to vote on policy issues affecting doctors. they're saying it was an unauthoriz vote prior to the delegates arriving that went to support this bill.

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Gary G. Miller: a.m.a. doctors are demanding a vote of no confidence against the board of directors. in fact, there are two resolutions that they're demanding to be heard tomorrow. one is from the rank and file membership and members of the house of delegates of the american medical association. it reads, we of the rank and file membership and the members of the house of delegates of american medical association do here object to your recent vote

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Gary G. Miller: supporting h.r. 3962 as the affordable health care act of america. wrars h.r. 3962 -- whereas h.r. 3962 will change health care in america. and prior to conving the house -- house of delegates and the

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Gary G. Miller: house of delegates has strong feelings, beliefs and grave misgavings with regarding h.r. 3962 and whereas the a.m.a. leadership has denied our leadership on this vitally important issue, we do hereby demand prior to addressing any item of business on current agenda immedia the rules of the house of delegates of the american

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Gary G. Miller: medical association and they call for full discussion and debate of h.r. 3962 including a vote of no confidence in our leadership by the members of the house of delegates. a very, very strong statement. the second resolution was filed and is called resolution 1006. it was introduced by the alabama delegation, the arkansas delegation, the

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Gary G. Miller: delaware delegation, the district of columbia delegation, the florida delegation, the georgia delegation, the kansas delegation, louisiana delegation, the new jersey delegation, the south carolina delegation, the american academy of rescon instructive surgery, the congress of neurological surgeons, the

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Gary G. Miller: american sew side of general surgeons and to the psychological society. it's to withdraw h.r. 3962. obviously there's a problem doctors are having with this bill. aarp has also come out and saying they represent seniors supporting this bill. but you have to look at this bill. i represent over 70,000

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Gary G. Miller: medicare eligible seniors in my district alone. the bill cuts over $500 billion out of medicare starting in 2010 including $23.9 billion in cuts to skilled nursing facilities, $143.6 billion in cuts to hospitals, including skilled nursing facilities,

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Gary G. Miller: long-term care facilities, in-patient rehabilitation facilities, psychiatric facilities, again, $143.6 billion in cuts to hospitals. and worse all, $170 billion in cuts to medicare advantage which effectively will eliminate medicare advantage in the future. you can't support this bill and sayou support seniors and you

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Gary G. Miller: support doctors who represent with unemployment over 10.2%, 29-year high, you include the individuals discouraged trying to find jobs and you can't find them and those underemployed who have part-time jobs and would really prefer to work full time. we have a problem in this country. we passed the stimulus bill

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Gary G. Miller: that said unemployment would not go above 8%. it's 10 tp 2% today. it said it would not go over 8% and lose more jobs and it lost over three million jobs since then we need to look at what we're