[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Speaker, we find ourselves in a unique 
circumstance in this Congress after over two centuries. This is likely 
the very first time that something is positioned to happen that the 
Founding Fathers never envisioned: That there would be a bill that 
couldn't be passed in the Senate, and that wasn't supported by the 
Senate, that wasn't supported by the House, that could nevertheless 
become law. The first time in history.
  There are only 59 votes over there in the Senate. They would not pass 
this bill that this House is being asked to pass. Even the Democrats 
don't support the Senate version of the bill. That's on a promise that 
it would be on a reconciliation package that we know will not be 
sustained on the Senate side.
  And another unique component of this is that ever since 1973, the 
people on that side have argued that the Federal Government has no 
business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body. Now 
their position is that the Federal Government has every right to tell 
everybody in America what they can or can't do with their body. Madam 
Speaker, this bill funds abortion. It funds illegals. It steals 
liberty. It's unconstitutional. It kicks off lawsuits. It spends 
trillions of dollars. It's irresponsible. It's a theft of liberty, and 
it's wrong.

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