Senate Proceeding on Oct 8th, 2009 :: 0:37:25 to 0:45:30
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Robert Bennett: affordable, but so far we've been rejected -- all of those suggestions have been rejected along mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. bent bent mr. president, along with -- mr. bennett: mr. president, i

0:37:25 to 0:45:30( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Robert Bennett

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Robert Bennett: noticed in the paper -- it said that out of the finance committee will not increase the deficit. i the thought, that's a little bit hard to believe. then i looked at the details and all of this reminded me of a scene out of an old movie. and the movie's not worth talking about, but

0:38:03 to 0:38:23( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: worth talking about to describe what's happening. it's a circumstance where a spend this rift husband comes home -- thrift husband comes home to a frugal wife with a new car. and the wife takes a look at the new car and says, "why in world are we doing this?

0:38:24 to 0:38:44( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: we can't afford a new car." he says, "no, rember, we got that windfall. there was an came through. we got some extra money. and we can use a new car and it won't democrats, a dime to the new deficit.

0:38:45 to 0:39:06( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: because we have this windfall coming in and we can afford the new car. she says, are you kidding? the roof is leaning. the -- leaking. our house payments are arrears. we got that windfall, we can take care of some of these other problems. we do not need a

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Robert Bennett: well, he said, we got the money and i've already spent it on the car and there's nothing you can do about it now. as it turned out in the movie, the new car got repossessed made a down payment on it and they couldn't afford the payments to keep the car. why do i say that the health care debate reminds me of this

0:39:30 to 0:39:51( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: sce from the movie? the federal debt is rising, the deficit from appropriations bills are enormous, we are wallowing in red ink here in the federal government, but this bill is going to add t the deficit because we found $1 trillion as

0:39:52 to 0:40:12( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: a way to pay for it. we found $1 trillion someplace else that we can bill. we can the roof is leaking, the college fund is gone, the house is in arrears, but somehow we have an

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Robert Bennett: extra $1 trillion that we think is best spent on the new car. if the new car is that much better than the old car, maybe the case could be should take this $1 trillion and spend it on the new car. what do we get for $1 trillion from the baucus bill? the $1 trillion, which if it is available to make this thing

0:40:35 to 0:40:55( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: deficit neutral, could very well be spent in balancing other budgetary problems and paying down the national debt and doing other things with it. if we really do have $1 trillion to spend here, what are we getting for it when we're spending it and tirely on the baucus bill? well we're getting a

0:40:56 to 0:41:16( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: continuation of defensive medicine because there is no significant malpractice or tort reform in this bill. in his speech to the congress, president obama said, i don't believe malpract silver bullet, but i have talked to enough doctors to they that defensive medicine may be

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Robert Bennett: contri close quote. i don't want to argue withhe president that much because i was delighted when he said that and i was on my feet applauding with others for that particular statement. i would say defensive medicine

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Robert Bennett: not to unnecessary costs. but we're not dealing with that in the baucus bill. we're somewhere else s continue business as usual with respect to defensive medicine and malpractice awards within our present system. so the new car, no better than the old car.

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Robert Bennett: costing us a lot more money, but it's no better than the old car. are we getting coverage of the 47 million hear about over and over again in the debate? when they say that the whole purpose we have to understake this is that we have 47 million americans who do not

0:42:21 to 0:42:42( Edit History Discussion )

Robert Bennett: have health care coverage, are we getting them taken care of? do we have room for them in the new car? well, not really according to the paper this morning we're going to get 29 of the 47 million taken care of, which means out. we can go into the details of who the 47 million are and, as

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Robert Bennett: we do, we find out it is a very mixed bag of people who are just passing through that category, people who not to be there. if we're just to get to 29 million out of the 47 getting a very good new car. we're not getting an improvement

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Robert Bennett: over what we've already got. an, again, that $1 trillion could be spent in a much better and wise are way. , if indeed, we have an extra $1 trillion that we can spend on health care, if indeed, we do have an opportunity to buy a new contacts this is the kind of thing -- car, this is the kind of thing w could get for the $1 trillion, if we say, all

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Robert Bennett: right, we've got an extra $1 trillion lying around, let's put it in health care. we funding, we can provide treatment for every americans whose diabetes or heart disease is going unmanaged, we could contribute to a global campaign to save millions of children's lives and we would still have enough money leftover to keep

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Robert Bennett: doing these programs for at least a decade or probably more. that's what we could get for a new car in the form of health care reform if we were willing to spend trying to improve people's health. but instead of trying to improve people's health, we are simply trying through this bill to keep

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Robert Bennett: the present system as it is. now, i've heard my friends from the other side of the aisle say repeedly the present system is broken, the present system is not an acceptable altertive, the present system must be changed. and i say, who are ray. i -- horray. i agree. i just wish the baucus bill

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Robert Bennett: would deal with the present system. i just wish the baucus bill would give car rather than simply replacing the old car with a duplicate of the old car that just happens to cost an extra $1 trillion. so, mr. president, i'm hoping as this thing moves forward we can

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Robert Bennett: make some significant changes in it, because at the present time what we've got here is a that would spend federal cash for a clunker. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a the presiding office will call the roll.