[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 112 (Thursday, July 23, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8588]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             NOT MY COUNTRY

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Madam Speaker, earlier this week four Members of the 
President's Cabinet, including Secretary Sebelius, came to my home 
State of Louisiana to build grassroots support for ObamaCare in the 
rural areas, but they found themselves defending the administration's 
broader effort to take over the Nation's health care system. To say 
they were greeted by skepticism would be an understatement.
  The anger over the direction this country is moving was best 
expressed by a gentleman who told the group, Please carry a message to 
Mr. Obama, that it will be a cold day in hell before he socializes my 
country.
  The administration and a small group of very liberal Democrats are 
intent on pushing through a government takeover of health care, even 
though more than half this country does not want it.
  Democrats in this House are moving forward with a health care plan 
that will hurt the sacred relationship between Americans and their 
doctor, deny access to needed treatments, and place power in the hands 
of Washington bureaucrats. Why are you in such a rush? Are you afraid 
Americans will learn the truth this time and stop it?

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