Motion to Instruct Conferees on S. Con. Res. 13, Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010

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MOTION TO INSTRUCT CONFEREES ON S. CON. RES. 13, CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 -- (House of Representatives - April 22, 2009)

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Mr. BROUN of Georgia. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

This budget that we are considering steals our grandchildren's future. We are spending too much, we are taxing too much, we are borrowing too much, and it has to stop.

My dear friend, Mr. Boyd from Florida, said we have to be fiscally responsible as a Nation, and I could not agree more. But this budget is being forced down the throats of the American people. It's a steamroll of socialism being shoved down the throats of the American people, and it's going to strangle the American economy. It's going to slay the American people, choke them to death economically, and we have got to stop it.

The majority is using this reconciliation in a dictatorial manner to try to force their philosophy of big government, of socialistic government, of total control of everything.

I am a medical doctor, and the health care issues that we hear, the speaker just prior to me, was talking about offering health insurance to 11 million children. I want to see everybody in this country have health care provided to them.

In fact, they can today, but the health care policies that are being fostered by the Democratic majority are going to destroy the health care system. The cost is going to be enormous. The quality of care is going to go down. We are going to have tremendous rationing of health care all over this country.

It's going to take the decisionmaking process out of the hands of doctors and patients, and it's going to put it in the hands of Federal bureaucrats who have no medical training, and it's morally wrong. We have got to stop this.

I rise today in objection to this Democratic process and to this Democratic budget, a budget proposed by the administration that is going to destroy our economy.

We have got to stop this steamrolling. We have got to put up speed bumps and stop signs. This steamroll is going to roll over doctors and patients, and it's going to smash them, and it's going to destroy the health care industry.

It's going to force through the cap-and-tax policies of this administration. And this Democratic majority is proposing it is going to send jobs overseas. It's going to markedly increase the costs of all goods and services in America, food, drugs. Every single good and service in America is going to go up because of the policy that's being forced down the throats of the American people.

The American people need to rise up and say ``no'' to this budget, to this process. It's totally wrong. We are stealing our grandchildren's and our children's future.

We have got to stop this. We need to be fiscally responsible. The Bush administration was not--but this markedly forces things down the throats of the American people, and we must stop it.

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