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 [...]