[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. HALL of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we're the people's House. The other 
body is called the House of Lords, but we are here to represent the 
people who sent us here.
  I quote a great speech from Governor John Connally of Texas when he 
was first elected Governor back in 1963. I served in the Texas Senate. 
I was in the crowd as he was speaking to a group of school board 
trustees, telling them to run their own schools, to make their own 
decisions, not the Nation, not the State, but they should make the 
decisions. They're there just like you're here.
  He told a story about ancient mariners that were adrift, shipwrecked 
off the coast of South America. Unknown to them, their raft had drifted 
into the fresh waters of the mouth of the Amazon River. They prayed for 
help.
  Ship ahoy, rang out their cry. There came a voice from the waters 
far, Drop your buckets where you are.
  Don't vote to dim the lives of future generations, of future 
taxpayers. This bill is a generation killer; the victims are our 
grandchildren.

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