[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BARTON of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTON of Texas. Madam Speaker, we have all seen the television 
program ``Deal or No Deal'' where you look at this case and you decide 
whether you want that case or you don't want the case and take the deal 
or not take the deal. Well, that's what we have, except this time, the 
Speaker of the House is saying that there may not even be a case, we 
don't want you to know what's in the case, we just want you to vote for 
this self-executing rule so that whatever happens happens.
  Well, that self-executing rule, Madam Speaker, is well named, because 
the people that vote for it are probably going to be victims of their 
own execution at the next congressional election.
  Let's have an up-or-down vote, just as the President has suggested, 
on a real bill, and make people accountable in their congressional 
districts whether they are for this massive health care bill, a 
government takeover of health care, or whether they want to keep the 
current system of private markets, private initiative and the market-
based health care system.
  Do not make us vote on the self-executing rule.

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