[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. CRENSHAW asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CRENSHAW. Madam Speaker, I think most of you all know that the 
movie ``Alice in Wonderland'' opened in a theater near you just this 
last week. It's in three dimensions. And it obviously has inspired our 
Democratic friends in an effort to explain what is going on in this 
make-believe world they have created up here. There is an exchange in 
that ``Through the Looking Glass'' where Humpty Dumpty is talking to 
Alice. And Humpty Dumpty says, When I use a word, it means exactly what 
I choose it to mean, neither more nor less. But Alice asks the 
insightful question, Well, can you really make words mean so many 
different things?
  And I think that is the question the American people are asking. 
Alice figured out that Humpty Dumpty was just making words mean what he 
wanted them to mean. And I think the American people are figuring out 
that the Democrats are just making up words like ``vote'' and then 
giving it a different meaning. People are smarter than that. And I 
think there's a better way.

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