mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: if you are hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. no insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor. unfortunately, the republican party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopolies. they asked for a vote to further empower those monopolies and we ask for a vote for american families to empower them. a vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. it is a vote to require seniors to pay more, more for prescription drugs, more for diabetes and cancer screenings. we can stand with american families today or we can bend and kneel to the insurance monopolies. thchoice is clear. let's vote for american families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i re

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: with last year's important health insurance reform law, we provided real guarantees to american families against insurance monopoly abuses. today, republicans tell these families, forget the binding guarantees. we have 12 platitudes for you. this isn't a republican prescription, this is a placebo and for the american middle class, it's a very bitter pill indeed. yesterday, house republicans in a remarkable measure, with one vote, decided to increase the national debt, reduce the solvency of the medicare trust fund, raise insurance premiums and charge seniors more for their health care. during the last 12 years that these republicans were in charge, six of them with near total come domination of government here in washington under the bush-cheney administration, they failed to enact one of these 12 platitudes in this flimsy, two-page excuse of a bill. 12 health care platitudes, missing in inaction for 12 years. they're broad platitudes that propose something they apparently kep

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: with last year's important health insurance reform law, we provided real guarantees to american families against insurance monopoly abuses. today, republicans tell these families, forget the binding guarantees. we have 12 platitudes for you. this isn't a republican prescription, this is a placebo and for the american middle class, it's a very bitter pill indeed. yesterday, house republicans in a remarkable measure, with one vote, decided to increase the national debt, reduce the solvency of the medicare trust fund, raise insurance premiums and charge seniors more for their health care. during the last 12 years that these republicans were in charge, six of them with near total come domination of government here in washington under the bush-cheney administration, they failed to enact one of these 12 platitudes in this flimsy, two-page excuse of a bill. 12 health care platitudes, missing in inaction for 12 years. they're broad platitudes that propose something they apparently kep

mr. doggett. the spear pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: with last year's important health insurance reformaw, we provided real guarantees to american families against insurance monopoly abuses. today, republicans tell these families, forget the binding guarantees. we have 12 platitudes for you. this isn't a republican prescription, this is a placebo and for the american middle class, it's a very tter pill indeed. yesterday, house republicans in a remarkable measure, with one vote, decided to increase the national debt, reduce the solvency of the medicare trust fund, raise insurance premiums and charge seniors more fo their health care. during the last 12 years that these republicans were in charge, six of them with nea total come domination of government here in washingto under the bush-cheney administration, they failed to enact one of these 12 platitudes in this flimsy, two-page excuse of a bill. 12 health care platitudes, missing in inaction for 12 years. they're broad platitudes that propose something they apparently kept hidde

mr. doggett: these republicans take a giant step backwards. they profess such great concern about their ability to cut wasteful spending, but first off, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting returning to the bush-cheney approach of endless borrowing. they claim they could cut so much but they reject a rule that requires them to cut spending as one way to offset revenue losses for each new tax break they approve. they're misleading cut-go just cuts fiscal discipline and say, go borrow from the chinese. these republicans are like the fellow who bellies up to the bar and says, just one more round of tax breaks for my buddies, put it on my tab. except it's our tab, all americans will pay for their endless borrowing for endless tax breaks. they are indifferent to our national debt except when it comes to cutting vital initiatives that they wanted to weaken or eliminate in the first place. we need pay-as-you-go budgeting just like a family that faces a high credit card debt and knows it can't balance its budget by cutting off its income and simply cu

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: if you are hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. no insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor. unfortunately, the republican party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopolies. they asked for a vote to further empower those monopolies and we ask for a vote for american families to empower them. a vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. it is a vote to require seniors to pay more, more for prescription drugs, more for diabetes and cancer screenings. we can stand with american families today or we can bend and kneel to the insurance monopolies. the choice is clear. let's vote for american families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i

mr. doggett is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. . let it be remembered that congress began this debate on whether or not to reduce corporate tax revenues to pay for our national security on the same day that our committee leadership, like our president, is meeting with the chinese. because the first question that needs to be answered is how much more will america borrow from the chinese so some corporations can pay less? to say as a representative of the roundtable has said here, quote, revenue neutrality should be off the table may be consistent with the misguided holiday tax deal that added another trillion dollars almost to the national debt. but it is just another way of saying go borrow from the chinese. of course there may well be some merit to lowering the spratt -- statute -- statutory tax rate. but one should realize to the extent we lower the statutory rate, if all corporations were paying that would represent a tax increase for many of our multinationals. you noted general electric for one that would pay many times the eff

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized two minutes. mr. doggett: our colleague gabby giffords was doing what she does so well, what every member does, listening to her constituents in an open public forum, young and old, americans of all political philosophies gathering to meet with her. this is the very type of neighborhood office hours that so many of us hold. i've held many of them throughout central seconds and this is the very type of openness that is fundamental to our democracy and critical to a society that recognizes that change is achieved through ballads, not bullets. less than a year ago, another disturbed individual expressed his anger by crashing his airplane into a building in austin, texas, that housed i.r.s. employees, causing great death and destruction. incredibly, a face book page was erected quickly in his honor. what i said then i would re-emphasize today, we must turn down the volume on hate to discourage more such harms. debate, vigorous debate, is at the very heart of our democracy. sometimes it is heated and strong

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. t: with last year's important health insurance reform law, we provided real guarantees to american families against insurance monopoly abuses. today, republicans tell these families, forget the binding guarantees. we have 12 platitudes for you. this isn't a republican prescription, this is a placebo and for the american middle class, it's a very bitter pill indeed. yesterday, house republicans in a remarkable measure, with one vote, decided to increase the national debt, reduce the solvency of the medicare trust fund, raise insurance premiums and charge seniors more for their health care. during the last 12 years that these republicans were in charge, six of them with near total come domination of government here in washington under the bush-cheney administration, they failed to enact one of these 12 platitudes in this flimsy, two-page excuse of a bill. 12 health care platitudes, missing in inaction for 12 years. they're broad platitudes that propose something they apparently kept hidd

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: if you are hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. no insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor. unfortunately, the republican party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopolies. they asked for a vote to further empower those monopolies and we ask for a vote for american families to empower them. a vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. it is a vote to require seniors to pay more, more for prescription drugs, more for diabetes and cancer screenings. we can stand with american families today or we can bend and kneel to the insurance monopolies. the choice is clear. let's vote for american families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. the choice here is whether to give more money to insurance monopolies or leave just a little bit in the pockets of middle class americans. but for house republicans, putting insurance companies first, putting them always first seems to be a pre-existing condition. this bill isn't repeal and replace, it's repeal and forget. forget the health care needs of millions of americans, forget the hundreds of billions of dollars that they with this repeal add to our federal debt. within a year alison, a 23-year-old in texas who is completing her college degree and caring for her mother who faces another round of breast cancer, alison would lose her health insurance. emily from women berl who is battling cancer herself would now face lifetime limits on what doctor-recommended care her insurer will pay for. and of course if her husband loses or changes his job, she swronet any insurance at all. and charlotte, an austin senior, she would have to pay for more prescriptions and fo

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. the choice here is whether to give more money to insurance monopolies or leave just a little bit in the pockets of middle class americans. but for house republicans, putting insurance companies first, putting them always first seems to be a pre-existing condition. this bill isn't repeal and replace, it's repeal and forget. forget the health care needs of millions of americans, forget the hundreds of billions of dollars that they with this repeal add to our federal debt. within a year alison, a 23-year-old in texas who is completing her college degree and caring for her mother who faces another round of breast cancer, alison would lose her health insurance. emily from women berl who is battling cancer herself would now face lifetime limits on what doctor-recommended care her insurer will pay for. and of course if her husband loses or changes his job, she swronet any insurance at all. and charlotte, an austin senior, she would have to pay for more prescriptions and fo

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. the choice here is whether to give more money to insurance monopolies or leave just a little bit in the pockets of middle class americans. but for house republicans, putting insurance companies first, putting them always first seems to be a pre-existing condition. this bill isn't repeal and replace, it's repeal and forget. forget the health care needs of millions of americans, forget the hundreds of billions of dollars that they with this repeal add to our federal debt. within a year alison, a 23-year-old in texas who is completing her college degree and caring for her mother who faces another round of breast cancer, alison would lose her health insurance. emily from women berl who is battling cancer herself would now face lifetime limits on what doctor-recommended care her insurer will pay for. and of course if her husband loses or changes his job, she swronet any insurance at all. and charlotte, an austin senior, she would have to pay for more prescriptions and fo

mr. doggett: these republicans take a giant step backwards. they profess such great concern about their ability to cut wasteful spending, but first off, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting returning to the bush-cheney approach of endless borrowing. they claim they could cut so much but they reject a rule that requires them to cut spending as one way to offset revenue losses for each new tax break they approve. they're misleading cut-go just cuts fiscal discipline and say, go borrow from the chinese. these republicans are like the fellow who bellies up to the bar and says, just one more round of tax breaks for my buddies, put it on my tab. except it's our tab, all americans will pay for their endless borrowing for endless tax breaks. they are indifferent to our national debt except when it comes to cutting vital initiatives that they wanted to weaken or eliminate in the first place. we need pay-as-you-go budgeting just like a family that faces a high credit card debt and knows it can't balance its budget by cutting off its income and simply cu

mr. doggett: these republicans take a giant step backwards.they profess such great concern about their ability to cut wasteful spending, but first off, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting returning to the bush-cheney approach of endless borrowing. they claim they could cut so much but they reject a rule that requires them to cut spending as one way to offset revenue losses for each new tax break they approve. they're misleading cut-go just cuts fiscal discipline and say, go borrow from the chinese. these republicans are like the fellow who bellies up to the bar and says, just one more round of tax breaks for my buddies, put it on my tab. except it's our tab, all americans will pay for their endless borrowing for endless tax breaks. they are indifferent to our national debt except when it comes to cutting vital initiatives that they wanted to weaken or eliminate in the first place. we need pay-as-you-go budgeting just like a family that faces a high credit card debt and knows it can't balance its budget by cutting off its income and simply cut

mr. doggett. yes, the most important thing that we can do to improve the competitiveness of our tax system is to make the system neutral across companies. we need to look for pockets of oversubsidyization and that's what we find ma areas of the tax law. we want it uniform across the economy, particularly when our deficit problem is at these incredible levels. >> thank you. the gentleman's i'm expired. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mcdonald, an observation and a question. i'm from suburban chicago, and i'm amazed at conversations i'll have with folks in the chicagoland area working for worldwide american companies who have not had a sense of clarity about the fact that their very employment is dependent upon the success of that company in overseas markets, and so my statement is to you as the leadership of the business round table, i think that there's a lot of advocacy that is left on the table because businesses are somehow reluctant to engage in substantive philosophical conversations because

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: if you are hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. no insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor. unfortunately, the republican party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopolies. they asked for a vote to further empower those monopolies and we ask for a vote for american families to empower them. a vote to repeal is a vote to maintain health care costs as the leading cause of bankruptcy and credit card debt in this country. it is a vote to require seniors to pay more, more for prescription drugs, more for diabetes and cancer screenings. we can stand with american families today or we can bend and kneel to the insurance monopolies. the choice is clear. let's vote for american families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: i