[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1466-H1467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. SOUDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SOUDER. Back when Thomas Jefferson did the first Louisiana 
Purchase, he got all parts of 13 States for, what's in inflation-
adjusted dollars, $150 million today. When the Senate health care bill 
passed, it cost $300 million to just get and buy one vote. Who knows 
what this week is going to cost the American taxpayers.
  We've also seen the outrage of how they propose to pass this bill. 
Over in the Senate, rather than the deliberative body going through in 
what's a takeover of 17 percent of the American economy, they're going 
to go through and try to jam it with a majority plus the Vice 
President, or one, whatever they need.
  Now we have the Slaughter rule in the House, where they're going to 
try not to even have an up-or-down vote. They're not even going to try 
to get 51 percent or 50 percent plus the Speaker. They're going to deem 
it passed.

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  Do they really think the American people are going to buy this 
unconstitutional fraud?

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