House Proceeding 11-07-09 on Nov 7th, 2009 :: 0:03:25 to 0:04:55
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Eric Cantor: it is totally unacceptable thank you, mr. speaker. it is totally unacceptable that this money is b the co the operating room. at the same time the majority has promised the america people that their health care bill will lower costs. yet the bill before us today,

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Speech By: Eric Cantor

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Eric Cantor: mr. speaker, contains no medical liability reforms. and why not? the truth comes when one -- from one of the democrats' own. no less than former d.n.c. chair and physician, howard dean. who said last august, the reason that tort reform is not in the bill is because the people that wrote it did n

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Eric Cantor: want to take on the trial lawyers, in addition to everybody else they were taking on, he said. and that is the plain and simple truth, he said. mr. speaker, the republican motion to recommit adds real, meaningful medical liability

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Eric Cantor: reform and uses this billion in savings to create a fund that will prott seniors. especially those in rural areas, from the steep cuts to medicare and the -- in the democrats' reform package. it gives members a chance to prioritize the health of our nation's seniors instead of lining the bank accounts of

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Eric Cantor: trial lawyers. it's time to get trial lawyers out of the clinics and the operating room and leave patient care to the people