[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10020]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   KEEP ROOSEVELT ON THE DIME AND HAVE A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I received a letter in the mail from 
a young friend.
  ``Dear Congressman Brown:
  ``I'm happy to be writing to you.
  ``I have an issue I think is important. I don't want the FDR dime to 
be changed to the Reagan dime because FDR has a real story. The story 
is when FDR tried to find a cure for polio, he asked children and 
grown-ups all over the United States to send dimes to the White House. 
By the end of the year, they had collected more than $1,000 in dimes.
  ``There would be no particular reason to have Mr. Reagan on the dime, 
but there is a reason that FDR should be on the dime. It is almost like 
having a monument to FDR in your pocket.
  ``I think another very important issue is health care. I believe we 
should have a national health care system. If people don't have health 
care and they get sick, they could die. If I get a very bad disease, I 
might get very good antibiotics and live. I would get those antibiotics 
because I have health care. But other people couldn't get antibiotics 
if they didn't have health care and couldn't afford them.
  ``Thank you for letting me write to you.''
  It is signed Alex Friedman.
  ``P.S. I am an 8-year-old in the third grade.''

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