[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6018]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, we're not supposed to talk to the 
American people here. We're supposed to address our colleagues, so I 
will not talk to the American people. But if I could, I would say to 
them they ought to be very concerned about their constitutional 
liberties because they're being challenged and some of them may be done 
away with very quickly.
  People who are members of companies, who work for companies, are 
going to be forced to do an open vote on whether or not they want to 
join a union if the Card Check Bill comes and passes this body or is 
passed by the administration through regulation. And this is something 
that would take away the right of these people to have a secret ballot 
on whether or not they want to join the union. That, in my opinion, is 
a violation of the first amendment.
  And then also we have what's called the Fairness Doctrine they're 
going to try to pass, which would kill talk radio. The liberals in this 
body and the other body want to stop people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean 
Hannity from talking about the issues that face the American people 
because they're conservatives and they're making their points to the 
American people and the American people listen to them. They don't 
listen to the liberals, and so they're going to try to shut them up 
with the Fairness Doctrine. That's unconstitutional, and we should do 
everything we can to stop it.

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