Health care bill is the same old turkey you didn’t like in August

What Republicans want as we debate the Senate Democrats’ health care plan is very simple. We want to make sure the American people have a chance to read Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill and know exactly what it costs and exactly how it will affect them. That is not an unreasonable request.
Senator Reid’s [...]

Expensive health care, the war in Afghanistan and the Guantanamo terrorist trials

Editor’s Note — The following are three speeches made by Rep. Duncan on the House floor during November 2009.
Government is the reason for expensive health care
Before the federal government got heavily into health care in the mid-sixties, medical care was cheap and affordable for almost everyone. Doctors even commonly made house calls. We [...]

Health care reform, solar power and the highway reauthorization bill

Editor’s Note — The following are three speeches made by Rep. Duncan on the House floor during October 2009.
Health care reform
Mr. Speaker, Robert Samuelson is a long-time economics columnist for The Washington Post. He is considered to be a very middle-of-the-road writer, neither liberal nor conservative.
In yesterday’s Post, he wrote a column entitled, “Public Plan [...]

The Obama White House should not make an enemies list

In 1969 and during the first half of 1970, I was a wet-behind-the-ears, 29-year-old staff aid in the West Wing of the Nixon White House. I was working for the wisest man in that White House, Bryce Harlow, who was a friend of President Johnson, as well as the favorite staff member of President [...]