[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 25777-25778]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, need I remind this body that between the 
years 2000 and 2006, the party apposite controlled the White House, the 
House of Representatives, and the Senate. What did they do for the 
American people regarding health care? Nothing; nothing at all. They 
didn't do anything to help the American people. And now that the 
Democratic Caucus is within a hair's breadth of delivering real reform, 
all we hear about is death panels, sex school clinics, and now, oh, my 
God, the Democrats are after the seniors.
  Seniors of America, in 1965, when Medicare was passed, only 22 
Republicans voted for it; probably none will vote for health care 
reform now. Remember that at the polls.

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