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Quasi nationalization of the financial system, nationalization of the automobiles, quasi nationalization of the health industry. now this bill has in it which nobody's focused on the nationalization of the student loan industry. it is a -- what we intend to do is throw up a series of substantive amendments, the purpose of which is to try to correct some of the fundamental flaws. i know we can't fix it, really, because it's such a terrible bill, some of the fundamental flaws of the underlying major bill which expanded the federal government's size by $2.6 trillion, grows the government from 20%...

Extend my remarks in opposition to this flawed health care bill. >> without objection. >> i'd like to yield for one minute the gentleman from florida, mr. sterns. >> the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. without objection. >> thank you, madame speaker. this incredibly expensive $1 trillion health care bill will hurt many that simply currently have insurance. the bill will hurt veterans because it does not accept tricare as a qualified medical plan. it will hurt seniors by cutting medicare advantage to fund these new government program. mr. stupak, no lawyer, will argue that ...

It? what are you hearing? do you sense this will pass? >> yes. you know the way these things work. there's a couple dozen people on these votes that play their cards close to the vest unit the end, but i think we have a pretty good idea what people are going to do, and i'm confident that we'll pass a bill that reins in the abuses, help senior citizens pay for their prescription drugs and put us on a path where hard-working people can get affordable insurance. that's why the industry is fighting it so hard. >> you're talking about keeping it close to the vest, is nancy pelosi, in your opinion g...

What are you doing to plan for it? preparing anything? anything you are doing behind the scenes? >> the health care summit has been built up now as a critical moment and the president is going to succeed in oppose -- in imposing his will on the congress and so that perhaps nancy pelosi can jam through the senate bill in the house. i believe that my mission in going to that meeting will be number one, to ask the president why it is that he supports this bill? because it is not a bill that will lower costs for it will cost a trillion dollars and put us on a path to a government replacing of our ...

That america has offered to the world. i believe the gathering reflects people's concerns about where we're headed in this country. we have serious decisions to make. we are at at pivotal point in our country's history. are we going to be the country that we know or one that frankly goes more towards the style of european socialism? we don't want that in this country. we are a country of opportunity. one with that my mission in going to that meeting will be number one, to ask the president why it is that he supports this bill? because it is not a bill that will lower costs for it will cost a t...