[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 41 (Friday, March 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1714-H1715]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I get a big kick out of my 
Democrat colleagues as they join hands and run towards the edge of the 
political cliff to commit political suicide. It is very interesting.
  You know, they just don't get it. But the American people do. This 
sign, I want to make sure they understood. Americans get it. Listen to 
the people. But they aren't getting it.
  Today on television, just to make my point, the treasurer of the 
State of

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Massachusetts, a Democrat, said that their State-run health care plan 
is bankrupting their State. And my colleagues over here, who are on the 
precipice of committing political suicide, want to do it nationally and 
spend trillions of dollars that we don't have.
  So I would just like to say to those who haven't made up their mind, 
take a good look at Massachusetts. They are going bankrupt because of 
what you want to do.

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