[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. CAMPBELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, one of the more Orwellian aspects of the 
Pelosi health care bill is that, amongst its 1,990 pages, it uses the 
word ``shall'' 3,425 times. That is 3,425 times that this bill compels 
somebody somewhere to do or to not do something, and that doesn't even 
include several hundred mentions of the word ``must'' or ``require.''
  Yet, with all of those compulsions in there which are telling 
Americans what to do, there is an interesting use of the word ``may,'' 
and that's relative to Members of Congress--to us. We may be a part of 
the government option, not must, not require, not shall, but we may 
participate in the public option--in the so-called public option--or in 
the government-run health care plan.
  It is another case where this Democratic Congress is saying, Do what 
I say, not what I do.

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