[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15422-15423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ABC NEWS IS BECOMING OBAMA NEWS

  (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, the national health care 
program that is advertised by the administration, they estimate it will 
cost $1 trillion just to insure one-third of the uninsured in this 
country. So it is going to cost $3 trillion if you add all of those 
people to the health care rolls, money that we just don't have.
  The thing that bothers me is ABC News over the next week is going to 
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advertising a 2-hour infomercial that is going to take place by the 
President at the White House in the next week. They are doing this at 
the White House. ABC is actually moving into the White House to 
advertise this for the President.
  You know, the President is on television every single day, and it is 
pretty obvious that CBS, NBC and CNN are all very supportive of the 
President. They are advocating everything he is talking about. But ABC 
is going overboard. They are absolutely flipping by going to the White 
House and supporting and advertising for the President's program.
  I think this is just dead wrong. It is okay to be supportive of the 
President, but I don't think ABC should become Obama news.

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