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Madam Speaker; Tear Up This Bill

November 5th, 2009 at 03:00pm Bob Trojan

Congressman Don Manzullo (R-IL) today joined dozens of his colleagues and
thousands of Americans on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for a news conference
to protest Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care.

The House is scheduled to vote Saturday on Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page bill,
which would raise taxes $730 billion on Americans, cost 5 million more jobs,
threaten the health insurance of 114 million Americans, and spend more than $1
trillion.

Manzullo supports an alternative Republican bill that the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office states would reduce health insurance premiums up to
10 percent and cut the deficit by $68 billion without raising taxes and without
threatening the health insurance of millions of Americans.

Click here to watch
Manzullo’s speech on the steps of the Capitol this afternoon.

Entry Filed under: Economy

4 Comments Add your own

  • 1. QuentinK  |  November 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Wow, this sort of opinionated diatribe is what FOX news tries to pass off as being a ‘fair and balanced’ news story. Now the rrstar is doing it?

    The health bill may lean too far to the left but only because the republicans refused to be involved in the writing of the bill. There was a call to center on this months ago and the republicans made it clear they weren’t going to play at all, So here we are with the bill as is. This is the way it works.

  • 2. Bob Trojan  |  November 5th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    From Congressman Manzullo’s Office:

    “There was never a call to the center on this. From the beginning, Speaker Pelosi determined this would be a Democrat written bill with absolutely no Republicans involved. They never invited Republicans to the table”.

  • 3. Monkey  |  November 6th, 2009 at 12:28 am

    This blog is becoming a joke. Mr. Trojan, are you just taking Manzullo’s stuff verbatim and posting it as your own? His information is opinion, nothing more. By stating it as fact, you’re doing your readers a disservice. Stick to nuts and bolts.

  • 4. Bob Trojan  |  November 6th, 2009 at 7:33 am

    Monkey; I always give the credit to my sources, read the above that I quoted from his office. Yes, it’s his opinion to which he is entitled. No different than when the President says something and says it’s fact.
    As long as policy issues impact business and manufacturing, I’ll post relevant links.

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