[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 13, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HEALTH CARE REFORM AND SOCIALISM

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, a lot of people in this country 
thought that the health care bill was a move toward socialism, toward 
government control over the entire health care industry. But, you know, 
we went ahead and passed it anyhow, even though probably 60-some 
percent of the American people opposed it.
  But I just want to say tonight to my Democratic colleagues who pushed 
so hard for it, who said it wasn't a move toward government control and 
socialism, there is one foreign leader who really thinks it was a great 
move in the right direction, and that is the Communist leader from 
Cuba, Fidel Castro, who contacted the President of the United States 
and said it was a giant step in the right direction. That ought to tell 
us something.

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