[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         RADAR IN SOUTH FLORIDA

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. I would ask my colleagues on the other side 
if they would tell me, what is their health care plan? Is it just that 
we shouldn't do health care? What part of it would you not do? is the 
question that I ask.
  But I really rise, Mr. Speaker, to take cognizance of a very fine day 
yesterday of bipartisanship. A former colleague of ours, the now-
Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, came to south Florida along 
with FAA Director Randy Babbitt to meet with several of us regarding 
radar in south Florida. On the flight from USAir here, Administrator 
Babbitt and I had an opportunity to hear a flight attendant do 
something very nice. She recognized and complimented 30 members of the 
Booker T. Washington High School class of 1949 in Miami who were en 
route here to Washington. It was a wonderful gesture, and it made for a 
wonderful day.
  My colleagues here who continue to rant about us not having health 
care, I wonder what they would say if we do nothing? Will health care 
stay the same? Or will it rot?

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