Bills Presented to the President (Cong. Rec., June 16, 2021)

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This is H2888 of the Congressional Record, House, June 16, 2021, with interleaved columns. A speaker whose name is not printed in the text read speaks about health care costs and national debt, saying that over the next 30 years there is $101 trillion of debt, mostly Medicare and Social Security, and criticizing H.R. 3, the prescription drug bill, for its use of reference pricing. The page then records enrolled bills signed by the Speaker, including H.R. 49 designating the National Pulse Memorial and H.J. Res. 27 providing for the appointment of a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and bills presented to the President, with the views and figures attributed to the speaker.

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H2888 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 16, 2021
been crushed by COVID. And when you that sound great, and you work want to do it because of debt. Some
look at why, I think we have a solu- through, and all they are going to do is want to just do it for a humanitarian
tion, but we have to think differently bring more misery to our society. cause. It is the right thing to do.
in this place. How many of you have actually read And then let’s legalize the tech-
So first let’s do the global problem. H.R. 3? nology that helps us change what we
The honest truth about what is about That is the Democrats’ bill on trying pay, instead of having the crazy debate
to crush us, as a people, is debt. Take to deal with prescription drug costs. we have here of how we pay.
a look at this chart next to me. Over And I understand we need to something It is time for the revolution. Adopt
the next 30 years—and this is in ad- about prescription drug costs, but what the technology. Let’s change the price
justed dollars, so this is in today’s dol- it does is it uses reference pricing. of healthcare.
lars—$101 trillion of debt in today’s Which means we are going to go to Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance
dollars. I don’t think we ever get close Great Britain here and take what they of my time.
to that, being able to finance that type allow for a year—so a single quality f
of debt. year of life—and if the drug costs more
But if you look at the chart, 67 per- than $37,000, you don’t get it. ENROLLED BILL AND JOINT
cent of it is just Medicare. The rest So the new Alzheimer’s drug that was RESOLUTION SIGNED
here is Social Security. The little finally approved last week, you don’t Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the
green part of that $101 trillion, only get it because it doesn’t give you—it House, reported and found truly en-
about $3 trillion of it is the rest of gov- costs more than $37,000. That is the rolled a bill and a joint resolution of
ernment. It is Medicare and Social Se- price mechanism that makes H.R. 3 the House of the following titles, which
curity. work. That is cruel. were thereupon signed by the Speaker:
If you believe, like I do, that we have But on the conservative side, we have H.R. 49. An act to designate the National
a moral obligation to keep our prom- got to get our math right. We tell peo- Pulse Memorial located at 1912 South Orange
ises on Social Security and Medicare, ple, price transparency. Price trans- Avenue, Orlando, Florida, 32806, and for
we need to step up and deal with the parency does a good thing. It makes a other purposes.
reality of the math hiding it. difference, but it only makes a frac- H.J. Res. 27. Joint resolution providing for
the appointment of Barbara Barrett as a cit-
So think about the debates that have tional difference. The best research we
izen regent of the Board of Regents of the
been going on here. We are talking have been able to find is it is .1 percent Smithsonian Institution.
about $4 trillion here, $4 trillion for to .7 percent change in healthcare cost.
f
this. This is the Damocles sword hang- So here is the point I am trying to
ing over our head. And the economic get through. ObamaCare, the ACA, the BILLS PRESENTED TO THE
violence, the evil that we will do to Republican alternative, they were fi- PRESIDENT
seniors and this government when this nancing bills. It is who had to pay, who Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the
blows up on us is terrifying. got subsidized. We need to start having House, reported that on May 20, 2021,
So I want to walk through some ba- a debate here on what we pay and how she presented to the President of the
sics, and as I juggle these boards, a we crash the price of healthcare. United States, for his approval, the fol-
really interesting number here, and Mr. Speaker, how much time do I lowing bill:
this one is really important. If you can have left? H.R. 941. To reauthorize the Stem Cell
take a look at this top line, this is The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, and
what needs to bounce off here. Of that, tleman has under 3 minutes remaining. for other purposes.
functionally, I think it is $68 trillion of Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker,
Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the
debt that is driven just by Medicare okay. In that case, I am sorry, I am
House, further reported that on May 24,
over the next 30 years, 31 percent of it going to talk even faster.
2021, she presented to the President of
is diabetes. I am going to make an argument
the United States, for his approval, the
If you look at the health outcomes that there is a technology disruption
following bill:
from COVID, from my Tribal commu- here that can help us change what we
pay. The single thing we could do im- H.R. 1318. To restrict the imposition by the
nities out in the Southwest, for urban Secretary of Homeland Security of fines,
populations that have lots of diabetes mediately to have the most impact is if penalties, duties, or tariffs applicable only to
issues, take a look at what a crappy we could get our brothers and sisters to coastwise voyages, or prohibit otherwise
year they had, dying from COVID. take their hypertension medicines, to qualified non-United States citizens from
If we don’t change this policy of say- take their pills. That is 16 percent of serving as crew, on specified vessels trans-
ing, well, we are going to spend money all healthcare costs. A half a trillion porting passengers between the State of
putting up more medical clinics and in dollars a year is just from people mis- Washington and the State of Alaska, to ad-
doing this and doing that, we are going using or not taking their pharma- dress a Canadian cruise ship ban and the ex-
ceuticals. traordinary impacts of the COVID–19 pan-
to spend money to help people live with
demic on Alaskan communities, and for
their misery? There is technology now on the pill
other purposes.
Is that really what we are about? cap, the dispenser, to help grandma, to
How about doing something bold? help me, to help all of us take our Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the
We are going to do an Operation pharmaceuticals when we need it. House, further reported that on June 7,
Warp Speed to cure diabetes, and, yes, But the other thing, this can be in 2021, she presented to the President of
it is going to be hard. your medicine cabinet. We now have the United States, for his approval, the
There is some incredible science com- the technology that you blow into, following bill:
ing on type 1 because type 1 is an auto- that tells you if you have a virus; that H.R. 2523. To amend the American Rescue
immune. Type 2, a lot tougher because tells you if you have a cancer; tells you Plan Act of 2021 to improve the COVID–19
Veteran Rapid Retraining Assistance pro-
a lot of it is lifestyle. And we are going what you have.
gram, to make certain technical corrections
to have to deal with government policy It is time for the technology disrup- to the Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe,
on how we do farm policy, on how we tion, and it is time this body started to M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Im-
do nutrition support. legalize that technology to help us dis- provement Act of 2020, and for other pur-
But maybe we can come together rupt the price of healthcare. We can do poses.
here and say we are going to stop fi- something. And the beauty of it is, by f
nancing misery; the diabetes that is doing the right thing, it affects the
rampant through our society. Oh, by debt crush that is coming to our soci- ADJOURNMENT

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the way, at the same time, it is the sin- ety. But, also, we start helping our The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
gle biggest impact you can have on the brothers and sisters not have to live ant to section 11(b) of House Resolu-
debt bomb that is hanging over our so- with the misery. tion 188, the House stands adjourned
ciety. So an Operation Warp Speed for dia- until 9 a.m. tomorrow.
And we have got to work through betes, Republicans, Democrats, we can Thereupon (at 10 p.m.), under its pre-
some of the crazy policy proposals here get on that. There may be some who vious order, the House adjourned until

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