[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26543-26544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          THE TALE OF TWO LAWS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker:
  It came on two pages,
  It has withstood the ages;
  The word ``shall,'' is only 10 times mentioned,
  But enough to get one's attention.
  No taxes did this law raise,
  To this day it continues to create much praise;
  Two great religions does it claim,
  The ``Law of the Ten Commandments'' is its name.
  A current writing, 1,990 pages long,
  Has a socialist philosophy that is all wrong;
  Difficult for the people to understand,
  And troubling what big government doth demand.
  Over 3,445 ``shalls'' it does loudly shout,
  New massive taxes does it proudly tout;
  Written in secret by the bureaucrats,
  For exclusive use of the taxacrats.
  The Congressional bill called ``Health Care Reform,''

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  Is illusionary, the authors are still ill-informed;
  Government ought not take over America's health biz,
  And that's just the way it is.

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