[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  100,000 SUPPORT HOUSE RESOLUTION 615

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, a couple of weeks ago I launched House 
Resolution 615 that simply says that if you vote for a government-run 
system, you should be willing to sign up for it. So far I've had a 
number of Republicans sign up, but not one Democrat. Since launching H. 
Res. 615 that calls for Members of Congress to sign up for government 
health care if they vote for it, it has received tremendous grassroots 
response. We now have over 100,000 Americans who have signed up in 
support, and the signatures represent all 50 States with supporters of 
the bill adamant about its demand for accountability of congressional 
lawmakers to the people.
  This message has resonated across America for one simple reason, and 
the people of this country are sick and tired of being the victims of 
bad laws while their elected Representatives are exempt from the same 
laws. It is obvious that nobody in Washington wants for themselves a 
bureaucrat standing between them and their doctor, nor an expensive, 
inefficient health care delivery system, and certainly not to be 
abandoned when thought to be too sick, too old or too expensive to care 
for.
  So why should Americans? I ask that Americans continue to hold us 
accountable by signing up to support House Resolution 615 by going to 
my Web site at fleming.house.gov.

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