[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. TURNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TURNER. Madam Speaker, I am just a bill, and I am sitting here on 
Capitol Hill waiting for a vote, apparently, unless you're in Nancy 
Pelosi's House. Unlike in ``School House Rock,'' Nancy Pelosi says that 
this little guy doesn't need to wait around for a vote. He can be 
deemed to be passed.
  Now, this is a new one for my daughter Jessica's high school 
government class. They can't understand how Speaker Pelosi can deem a 
bill passed without a vote. There is no deeming a bill passed in 
``School House Rock'' or in the expectations of the American people.
  In today's Washington Post, Speaker Pelosi tells us why she wants to 
deem the health care bill passed without a vote. She suggests that it 
politically protects lawmakers who are reluctantly supporting the 
measure. However, the American people are smart. They know that for 
this bill to become law, it takes a vote.
  Madam Speaker, let's stop the parliamentary tricks. Let's bring this 
bill to a vote, and I will be voting ``no.''

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