[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, there is quite a bit of talk right now about 
the spread of the H1N1 virus, but I want to talk about amnesia in 
Washington. You might recall on September 12, hundreds of thousands of 
Americans from every State and every locality, community, converged 
upon Washington, and they left us some messages. And sometimes the 
people in Washington have forgotten those messages. One they left to me 
and the Congress in a petition was: serve us honorably and responsibly. 
They demand no more taxes. Stop spending our money. Exercise our 
freedoms; you will not take them away. Halt the dismantling of America. 
First, say ``no'' to cap-and-trade; second, say ``no'' to government-
run health care.
  Members, unfortunately, have amnesia around here. But I just wanted 
to bring forward the petition the people brought me from north central 
and really all of Florida petitioning their government: no government-
run health care.

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