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"For House Republicans, putting insurance companies first seems to be a pre-existing condition. This bill isn't repeal and replace, it is repeal and forget—forget the health care needs of millions of Americans , forget the hundreds of billions of dollars that they, with this repeal, add to our federal debt," said Rep. Doggett.
Financing Texas Schools
Re "The Texas Omen" (column, Jan. 7): We applaud Paul Krugman for highlighting Gov. Rick Perry's disastrous use of "smoke and mirrors" budgeting. In 2009, the governor used $3.25 billion in federal education money to replace state education funds, denying any additional support for Texas schools.
Full text of Rep. Doggett's remarks as prepared for delivery follow below:
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If you're hit by a truck this afternoon or your child contracts a dreaded disease, your future ought not to depend on the fine print in an insurance policy you didn't have anything to do with writing. No insurance monopoly should stand between you and your doctor.
"On Day One of this new Congress, the Republicans' first step is backwards. While professing such great concern about spending and debt, they abandon pay-as-you-go budgeting, returning to the Bush-Cheney approach— endless borrowing.
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"‘Cut-go' just cuts fiscal discipline and says, ‘Go borrow from the Chinese.'
What is the Difference Between the Debt and the Deficit?
Click here for a brief explanation as well as some relevant figures on definitions from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Read more from The Hill here.
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December 17, 2010
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