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Frank Pallone: I am just amazed. I listened to the gentleman from Georgia who just spoke, and he said that in his district all of the…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2011
I am just amazed. I listened to the gentleman from Georgia who just spoke, and he said that in his district all of the focus is on health care and health care repeal. Well, I don't know, when I go home all I hear in my district is jobs and the economy. People are concerned about the economy. They want us to create jobs, they want us to focus mostly on that issue, not on repeal of health care. The other problem I have with the gentleman from Georgia's comments is he seems to think that because the House passed this repeal yesterday that the health reform is repealed. Well, let me tell everyone it's not, and this is just a ruse. This bill, this health reform wasn't repealed. The Senate isn't even going to take it up. The President has said that he would never sign a repeal bill. So the Republicans are just wasting their time, rather than focusing on what we should be focusing on, the jobs and the economy. They keep talking about this false repeal that is never going to happen.
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Frank Pallone
Democratic · New Jersey
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govinfo.gov
Jan 20, 2011

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Pallone addresses the focus on health care repeal versus the need for job creation and economic concerns.

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