Senate Proceeding on Oct 28th, 2009 :: 5:21:20 to 5:23:00
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5:21:17 to 5:21:37( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: we're anxious to read the bill, but closed mr. kyl: mr. president, i'd say to my colleague, the majority -- excuse me -- the minority leader yesterday in a press conference talked about this bill that's been written. i'm not actually even sur it has been written. obviously we've never seen it. and all that the majority leader has chosen to talk about

5:21:20 to 5:23:00( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Jon Kyl

5:21:38 to 5:21:58( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: publicly ishe so-called public option so maybe that one feature of it has been written. my point here is it isn't republicans who are slowing anything down here. as far debate is concerned, i think we're very anxious to engage in that debate as my colleague from tennessee pointed out, we're not going to

5:21:59 to 5:22:19( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: begin debate on a bill which is going to raise taxes, raise premiums, cut benefits under medicare, increase the deficit, reduce the quality of our health care. and i'm not going to vote to begin work on that kind of a bill, but i certainly will vote to begin work on a bill which

5:22:20 to 5:22:43( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: meets the primary objective. there were two primary things we need to try to resolve here. one, to make sure we can get insurance to 18 million americans that can't afford it an the other is to keep premiums from going up. as the senator from tennessee pointed out, under the legislation that came out of the finance committee and out of the house of representatives, insurance premiums go up more

5:22:44 to 5:23:02( Edit History Discussion )

Jon Kyl: than they otherwise would have. according to who? the congressional budget office, the nonpartisan entity that we all ask to analyze these things. there are many other studies that came to the same conclusion. so i'm not anxious to begin working on a bill that does those