House Proceeding 01-28-09 on Jan 28th, 2009 :: 0:25:30 to 0:26:40
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Speech By: Roy Blunt

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Roy Blunt: happy to yield a minute to my friend from springfield, missouri, mr. blunt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri is recognized for one minute. mr. blunt: thank you, madam speaker. last year i helped pass a bill -- a stimulus bill that the speaker at that time had to be first of all timely and targeted. and, madam speaker, i'd argue that this bill is neither. it's certainly not targeted.

0:25:33 to 0:25:55( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: it's a broad brush of everything that the majority's wanted to do for the last decade even before they were in the majority and it's not timely. in fact the estimates are that 7% of the money that would be spent in this bill could be spent in the next year. alice rivlin, president clinton's budget director, said yesterday before the house budget committee, we'd be a lot better off if we were debating

0:25:56 to 0:26:16( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: that 7% and we were taking the other 93% and having hearings and trying to do what the speaker said in her fact sheet we had done here. ms. foxx just mentioned this fact sheet which frankly, madam speaker, wasn't even factual when it was printed. in says in my committee, the energy and commerce committee, that six republican amendments wer

0:26:17 to 0:26:37( Edit History Discussion )

Roy Blunt: into the bill. three of them were already taken out of the bill before the fact sheet was printed, madam speaker. i urge -- mr. dreier: i'd yield my friend 30 seconds to continue his very important argument. mr. blunt: i thank the gentleman for yielding. three of these were already out of the bill when this was printed.

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Roy Blunt: the amendment i had just simply said nothing in this legislation would prevent pharmacists from talking to their patients. that wasn't quite good enough, so in the 12-hour markup that really did nothing to change the bill as it turns out, we spent three hours of that 12 hours agreeing on language so