mr. brounyou, mr. speaker. i'm a medical doctor. i've practiced medicine in georgia for almost four decades. as a medical doctor with all that clinical experience i'm a family doc, primary care provider. i've examined the proposal that the white house put forward just two days ago. and frankly i've got a diagnosis. i cannot give obamacare 2.0 a clean bill of health. but i can diagnose for the american people, though, is this, it's going to make the american people sick. sick in their wallets because it's going to cost more. health care costs in this country are going to skyrocket because of this obamacare proposal that the white house recently put out. and as "the wall street journal" just very aptly said in an editorial this morning, the white house has accomplished a great thing, they took the most onerous pieces of the house bill and the senate bill and combined them to make the current proposal of obamacare that the white house is putting forward even worse than either of those bills. the q

baron of georgia. -- mr. broun of georgia. e speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from missouri, mr. akin, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. akin: thank you, madam chair. the next hour, we'll be talking about a subject that has caught the attention of americans. it's generally speaking a boring subject, but now it's not become boring anymore. that is the problem with the federal government overspending, the problem with the budgets that have been proposed, the problem of the financial trajectory of our country, and the threat that that trajectory poses. i'd like to step back in time a little bit, as a republican, to talk about the fact that over a 12-year period, republicans had a deficit spending in a number of years at about $100 billion or maybe a little more. if you put that all together over 12 years, you have over $1 trillion amount of deficit spending. what we're looking at in one year now is over $1 trillion. in other words, th

mr. king: i yield to the man who does have grits for breakfast, dr. broun. mr. broun: i think the american people need to know socialism never has worked and never will work and we have people here in washington who are so arrogant, ignorant and so incompetent that they think their brand of socialism is going to work, but it will not. it has never worked and never will work and i don't care who is trying to force socialism upon our people, it's still not going to work. in fact, the progressives, as mr. king was talking about recently, has said that way back years ago with teddy radios velf, who was the first progressive and started the progressive movement in this country, the progressives back a september try ago were saying the best way to socialize america would be to socialize the health care system. and they have been trying for 100 years now to socialize the health care system. we have a sham of a meeting tomorrow at the blair house, the white house has set it up. when it was first announced, i was hopeful that maybe the president had seen the light from ev

gohmert today, mr. broun, mr. moran, mr. baum man today. mr. shimkus february 9. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. quigley: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material, ms. woolsey, mr. defazio, mr. sestak, mr. kaptur and of course, mr. quigley. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009 and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. ms. woolsey from california. mr. deal from georgia. mr. defazio from oregon. mr. poe from texas. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. they called it the war to end all wars. four million 700,000 americans went over there to europe in the great world war i. 116,000 of them never came home. many more whe

, from georgia. -- the gentleman, mr. broun from georgia. for what purpose does the gentlelady from minnesota rise? mrs. bachmann: to address the house for five minutes. mrs. bachmann: i rise today to commemorate a sacred memory in our nation's history. it was 67 years ago today when a terrible event occurred, and a brilliant event occurred. it was 67 years ago, february 3, 1943. we now call this memory the four chaplains day and honor this day in our nation's memory because of the valor and strength exhibited by four members of our armed services, four chaplains. the ship was a coastal liner, converted to troop transport for world war ii and it was with more than 900 men on board. it was a freezing night when the dor chester, one of three ships in a convoy, was tore pee dode. it was freezing and it was about 1:00 in the morning when a terrifying shot was fired by a nazi submarine 100 miles off the frigid coast of greenland and the ship quickly began to sink in the cold, cold waters. many americans were killed by the explosion, others were t