[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 7 (Thursday, January 21, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, some people just don't get it.
  I was reading the Wall Street Journal this morning. And when the 
Democrat Senators met, one of the aides was asked by a reporter what 
was going on; and the aide to one of the Democrat Senators said this: 
``People are hysterical right now.''
  Hysterical? Because the American people realize that this health care 
bill is an absolute disgrace and a tragedy, and they didn't want it and 
they overwhelmingly voted against it in Massachusetts, they are 
hysterical?
  I would just like to say to that young man and any of my colleagues 
who really haven't gotten the message from Massachusetts and Virginia 
and New Jersey: the American people don't like the direction this 
country is heading in. They don't like the big spending. They don't 
like all these new socialistic programs. And they don't want the 
government coming between them and their doctor. And I hope my 
colleagues will get that message so we can work together to solve these 
problems facing the Nation regarding health care.

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