[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1472-H1473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HEALTH CARE REFORM
(Mr. CRENSHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. CRENSHAW. Madam Speaker, I think most of you all know that the
movie ``Alice in Wonderland'' opened in a theater near you just this
last week. It's in three dimensions. And it obviously has inspired our
Democratic friends in an effort to explain what is going on in this
make-believe world they have created up here. There is an exchange in
that ``Through the Looking Glass'' where Humpty Dumpty is talking to
Alice. And Humpty Dumpty says, When I use a word, it means exactly what
I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. But Alice asks the
insightful question, Well, can you really make words mean so many
different things?
And I think that is the question the American people are asking.
Alice figured out that Humpty Dumpty was just making words mean what he
wanted them to mean. And I think the American people are figuring out
that the Democrats are just making up words like ``vote'' and then
giving it a different meaning. People are smarter
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than that. And I think there's a better way.
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