[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21306]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CALLING THE PRESIDENT OUT

  (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. Mr. Speaker, last night the President made a 
very eloquent speech here in the House Chamber. I am always impressed 
with his eloquence. But one of the things he said that stuck with me 
was he said if the Republicans, he didn't say ``Republicans,'' but he 
said if anyone in the Chamber, and I think he was referring to 
Republicans, if anyone in the Chamber doesn't state the facts correctly 
or misleads the American people, he is going to call them out. That is 
a pretty tough term, ``call them out.''
  So I just would like to say if I were talking to the President right 
now, Mr. President, that is a double-edged sword. You said you are 
going to call us out if we don't tell the truth. Well, in the next 
series today, I am going to take a 5-minute Special Order and I am 
going to go through everything, or as many as I can get to in 5 
minutes, I am going to go through everything the President said last 
night which was not quite true, because I think the American people 
really need to know the facts, and so we are going to call the 
President out.

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