[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 19, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       STOP PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES FROM ROBBING AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. BERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, the great country western music singer Merle 
Haggard has a song he sings called ``Rainbow Stew.'' One of the lines 
in that song says, ``One of these days, when the air clears up and the 
sun comes shining through, we will all be drinking that free Bubble-up 
and eating that rainbow stew.''
  Tonight, the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the insurance companies 
are going to have a big rainbow stew banquet for the Republicans. They 
are going to serve free Bubble-up. The pharmaceutical manufacturers in 
this country are going to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to do 
this, and they are pledging millions more in another attempt to deceive 
the senior citizens in this country and make them think that they are 
going to get a prescription drug benefit.
  Corporate greed in America has gone too far. It is time for this 
Congress to fulfill its obligation and stop the pharmaceutical 
companies from robbing the American people.

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