[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  IF IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR 
                                CONGRESS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, as Democrats push for a 
government takeover of health care, I hope they will abide by a very 
simple standard: if a government-run health plan is good enough for the 
American people, it's good enough for Congress.
  During consideration of the over 1,000-page bill in the Education and 
Labor Committee, I successfully got an amendment passed that would 
provide that Congress Members who vote in favor of government-run 
health care would enroll in the plan themselves. The American people 
should monitor that this provision is kept in the bill.
  I want to commend Congressman John Fleming, a physician, for 
originally promoting this concept of fairness. I urge my Democrat 
colleagues to adopt this standard if they insist on dragging a Big 
Government bureaucracy between patients and doctors. The American 
people deserve better to protect jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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