Chris Murphy: “I am very glad to be joined by a number of colleagues over the next hour as we start what we hope will be a fairly…”

“I am very glad to be joined by a number of colleagues over the next hour as we start what we hope will be a fairly regular Special Order hour here on the floor of the House of Representatives to talk about the great need for comprehensive health care reform this year in the United States Congress. I think it is very appropriate that we kick off this Special Order hour in the midst of an incredibly important and critical debate about the economic future of this country, both in the short term and in the long term, because one of the things we're going to talk about in this Special Order hour is the very fact that, for millions of families out there and businesses--small and large--this economy did not just lurch into crisis this past summer. It happened long before that. One of the biggest contributing factors to the economic crisis that businesses and families have been feeling for years is the mounting cost of health care.”