[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, between the year 2000 and 2006, the 
Republicans had the House, the Senate, and the White House, and they 
did nothing of good to help the American people. And now you listen to 
them and it sounds like they actually are for health care for the 
American people. But if they were for the American people, they would 
have done something in those 6 years about people being affected by 
rescission, by preexisting condition, by carrying young people on the 
health care policy of their parents until they're 26, about doing 
something about this doughnut hole. They'd have done something about 
it. But they didn't do anything other than make the problem worse.
  And if you listen to them today, you would think they cared, but the 
evidence is before the American people, they did nothing at all. And 
now we are going to do something about it within a little more than 1 
year of coming into office.
  Who's on your side, America? You'll find out this week.

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