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On the recordMay 25, 2010
Thank you, Dr. Fleming. We have just a couple of minutes left, and maybe I will get back to you in a second. But I want to tell Madam Speaker and the American people that Republicans have been charged by our Democrat colleagues--and I've heard many a Democratic colleague come stand down here in the well or stand back there at the Speaker's desk and say that the Republican Party is the party of ``no.'' We are the party of ``k-n-o-w.'' So I'll admit that we are the party of ``know'' because we know how--k-n-o-w-- we know how to reduce the cost of health care for everybody in this country. We know how to solve the problems of insuring those people who are uninsurable today because of preexisting conditions. We know how to maintain that doctor-patient relationship; it's how health care decisions are made. ObamaCare doesn't do that. That's another failed promise, another myth that our President and Nancy Pelosi and company have given to the American people. President Obama said over and over again, If you like your insurance, you can keep it. And Dr. Fleming was just talking about, no, you can't. That's another myth; that's another failed promise. But the Republicans are the party of ``k-n-o-w,'' know, because we know how to do those things. We know how to create jobs. We've been asking over and over again, Where are the jobs? The American people are hurting. We see the statistics, 9.9 percent, but that's not correct. It's much higher than that.…
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Paul Broun
Republican · Georgia
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May 25, 2010

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