[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10947]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             COMMENDING THE PRESIDENT'S OVAL OFFICE ADDRESS

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. I really didn't intend to talk, but I just wonder whether 
my colleague was listening to the same President, a President who I 
thought was responding to all Americans when he said that the 
government has a responsibility to make certain that the private sector 
upholds their commitment to people, to make certain that they do what I 
would hope that you would want.
  We have to get away from this whole idea that government's bad. Ask 
anybody that has Medicaid and Medicare. And this President was an 
exciting, fresh air for all Americans to know that we will never forget 
those people in Louisiana.
  The whole idea of cleaning the atmosphere and making this planet a 
better place to live, maybe that's repugnant to your way of thinking, 
but believe me, it's not for Democrats. It's for Democrats, 
Republicans, and for the civilized world to understand that we are 
prepared to make this a better planet than the one in which people have 
destroyed it.
  So I just hope that we check and see who you were listening to last 
night, because I really thought it was exciting, invigorating, and gave 
us a lot of comfort that the President really cared.

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