[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      FOX NEWS SHOULD REPORT CORRECT FACTS ON PENSION LEGISLATION

  (Mr. LaTOURETTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, I am going to veer off this message. We 
are supposed to be talking about where's the budget, and I guess I 
wonder where the budget is.
  But I have to tell you, I think as a Republican, I am supposed to 
love Fox News and hate MSNBC. Now, I am going to tell you I do hate 
MSNBC, but something just happened on Fox News that compelled me to 
come to the floor. They have run this diagram, and it really is, I 
think, blaspheming my good friend, Pat Tiberi from Ohio, and indicating 
that there are nine Republicans who are supporting a bill that will 
bail out unions.
  Well, that's nonsense, and I don't know who the pinheaded weenie is 
at Fox News that decided to put that story together, but the true facts 
of this piece of legislation are as follows. This bill will save the 
taxpayers by saying to those corporations that have union pension 
plans, if you find yourselves in a bind, rather than thrusting that 
upon the taxpayer, it spreads out over 5 years the ability to bring 
those pension plans up to speed.
  That's good government. It's a good bill. It's a good Tiberi bill. 
And I don't know what they are doing at Fox News, but they should stop 
smoking it and get back to reporting the facts.

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