[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3524]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, as I walk across back and forth from the 
Cannon Building to come to this Chamber, there is a wall in the steam 
tunnel of all of these different pictures that are painted by our high 
school students, and one continues to arrest my progress.
  A beautiful little redheaded girl about 17 years old who looks like 
my daughter, and has beautiful lighting on her face. And as you look 
into her face, she has a profound sadness there. And the thought has 
crossed my mind that that's how my daughters will look if this bill 
passes with government rationing of health care, with the budget 
busted, with the destruction of our economy, and unemployment out of 
control.
  We need to fix health care, but we don't need to destroy American 
health care or the American economy. That would be sad indeed.

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