[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18298-18299]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FIVE NEW AMERICAN FREEDOMS

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Madam Speaker, earlier this morning I joined my 
congressional staff on a tour of our Capitol. What a wonderful place 
this is. And if there's any lesson we should learn from our Capitol, 
from our Nation's history, it is that our freedom is ours for only as 
long as we can hang onto it. It wasn't that long ago that the Democrats 
led Americans into five new essential American freedoms.
  We are now free from discrimination due to any preexisting medical 
condition. We're free from cancellation by any insurance corporation 
just because you get sick. We're free from going broke just because a 
child has an accident or becomes seriously ill. We're free to choose 
our own doctor. And we're free to go to the closest emergency room.
  These five new essential American freedoms will be yours for only as 
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as you can hang onto them. We as Democrats fought very hard to secure 
them. We're going to work very hard with everyone in this country to 
hold onto these newfound freedoms. Your freedoms are yours for only as 
long as you can hang onto them.

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