March 2, 2010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1011 Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Just a very focus on economic issues that affect Street speculation that drove our econ- short comment. This weekend, Dr. Americans who either make up the omy and drove the global economy off GINGREY, Mr. Speaker, I had three middle class or are striving to enter the cliff and put us into this deep hole friends, people I know, diagnosed with the middle class. We all know that our that we have been digging ourselves some very serious illnesses. It just hap- country has historically been at its out of. pened. These three men that I know ex- best when we have had a large middle So as millions of middle class fami- tremely well, all of them, are getting class and our economic policies reflect lies look to us and ask when their re- the highest quality care anywhere in middle class values, and that is why covery effort will bring relief to their the world, and they don’t have to go far when we decided to settle upon our town on their street, they deserve to from home to get it. I think one of the founding principles, we decided that we know what we are going to be doing to things that the American health care wanted to fight for families by pro- spur job creation, insist on fair execu- system has brought to us are new inno- viding them access to quality, afford- tive compensation, and end speculation vations, lengthening of our life span, able health care; to provide them and on Wall Street. and the procedures that are done today their children with the type of world Now, one of the things that we know to extend and improve the quality of class education they will need to com- is that it is very common for politi- life. I am glad to hear no longer, and I pete in a global economy; to make sure cians and groups across the political heard it for a year, and it was very that we have a fair wage system for all spectrum to try to claim the populist bothersome and troublesome to me, to employees in this country; to make mantle. But let me tell you, and I am hear the other side talk about how bad sure that our trade policies provide a going to let my colleagues expand on health care was in America. We cer- level playing field to American work- this, the Populist Caucus that we all tainly have a problem getting health ers and American manufacturers who came together to found was not based care at an affordable price to all of our compete with trading partners who upon a bunch of people running citizens, there is no question that is just frankly don’t quite live up to our through the streets with torches and pitchforks asking for blood. We are true, but the care that everyone gets is standards, whether it is child labor, ex- there because the problems of the mid- good care. ploitation of workers, environmental I can tell you that I have done it my- issues, those are the types of issues dle class are real. The concerns of our self for people who couldn’t pay. And I that we want to focus on as we chart a constituents reflect the concerns of would stand here and hear people talk, new future for this country to promote America, and we want to come to- and I am one of the few people on this and expand the middle class that we all gether and talk about serious answers to real problems to help change the House floor who had to get up and go to are so proud to have been a part of. lives of middle class Americans. the emergency room at 3 in the morn- One of the things that we talked So with that, I am going to yield to ing and see a patient who doesn’t have about as we were trying to dig our- selves out of the greatest economic cri- my colleague from Ohio before I yield health insurance and try to work him to my colleague from Wisconsin to talk through a system and get them care. It sis since the Great Depression was what type of a blueprint for recovery about some of the critical economic isn’t easy. We can do better, and we issues she is hearing about from her sure can do better than this bill right we wanted to offer to the American people that was going to be a reflection constituents and why this Populist here. Caucus response is so critical moving Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. I thank Dr. of the values that we grew up with and give a strong message that, after a forward. ROE for being with me tonight, Mr. Ms. SUTTON. I thank the gentleman bailing out Wall Street, the American Speaker. There are 14 health care pro- for yielding, and for your strong lead- taxpayers deserved help on Main viders on the Republican side. Ten of ership of the Populist Caucus and the Street, and that it was not unreason- them are M.D.s. There are five M.D.s mission that we are on to restore the on the Democratic side. We have two able to ask the very people on Wall promise of the middle class, to stand doctors in the Senate. We probably Street who got us into this mess to up for the middle class, and to stand up have 500 years in clinical experience in help pay for the tab on helping bail out for those who aspire to the middle the aggregate. Let us help. Main Street. class, to make our country work for I am proud to be joined by my In closing, I want to refer to my col- those folks who are aspiring to the friends, the gentlewoman from Ohio league who was here a number of years middle class. ago, Dr. Roy Rowland, a member of (Ms. SUTTON) and the gentleman from We are not something that is com- this body when the Democrats were in Wisconsin (Mr. KAGEN), but one of the plicated. The Populist Caucus believes the majority. Back in the early 1990s, things that I want to talk about at the that strong, immediate action must be Dr. Rowland, a family practitioner beginning is the things that we hear taken to create jobs in the United from Dublin, Georgia, he had a bipar- over and over back in our district, be- States and to put an end to the exces- tisan bill back then that he worked cause all of us have been out talking to sive greed of Wall Street that brought very closely on with his Democratic our constituents, going to town hall us to the brink of disaster. And so I am colleagues and his Republican col- meetings, Congress on Your Corner and proud to join with you, Representative leagues, and he presented that bill. I the other events, and the one thing I BRALEY and Representative KAGEN, to think it was called the Bipartisan hear from my constituents over and stand up and speak to the American Health Reform Act of 1994, and he of- over is this question: When do I get my people about the fight we are waging fered that in lieu of HillaryCare. Unfor- bailout? on their behalf because that’s what tunately, the Democratic majority This is a legitimate question that being a populist is really about. didn’t accept it. Don’t make the same Americans deserve an answer to from When I go home, as when you go mistake this time, Mr. President. Let’s Democrats and Republicans, because if home, I hear all about the need to fa- do it in a bipartisan way and in a you are somebody who has lost your cilitate employment opportunity for small, incremental way. job or you’ve lost your home or you’ve the people that I represent in northeast lost your business or you’ve lost your f Ohio. All they want is a government health care coverage during this crisis, that will work with them and for them, BLUEPRINT FOR RECOVERY you need to know what is my Federal to facilitate those jobs, jobs, jobs that The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Government doing to help me out. So are so needed out there. We have heard the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- when we talk about our response, we recently that there is a recovery under- uary 6, 2009, the gentleman from Iowa are going to do it by talking about way, and there are some signs of recov- (Mr. BRALEY) is recognized for 60 min- these three core values: The Populist ery, and we have certainly seen a lot of utes as the designee of the majority Caucus wants to find a blueprint for re- signs of recovery on Wall Street, but leader. covery that is going to spur job cre- there can be no such thing as a jobless Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ation; it is going to implement fair recovery, and we have started to hear was very proud to found the Populist compensation for executives who that term bounced about. Caucus with a large group of my helped put us in this problem; and, fi- The Populist Caucus is here to say friends in the Democratic Caucus to nally, bring an end to excessive Wall that there is no recovery if our folks VerDate Nov 24 2008 03:41 Mar 03, 2010 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K02MR7.075 H02MRPT1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with HOUSE H1012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 2, 2010 don’t have jobs, because this is not just In the words of Teddy Roosevelt, who, that, the Populist Caucus has put for- about a country that stands up for the on August 31, 1910, in his speech enti- ward a blueprint for America’s future, well-to-do.