[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12860]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BEWARE OF SPECIAL SESSIONS

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, if I were tonight addressing the 
people of this country, I would say: beware of special sessions. We're 
not going to accomplish much between now and when we get out of here 
for the election in November. And the reason we're not is because of my 
Democrat colleagues, many of whom realize that they're probably not 
going to be reelected.
  And so the President and the majority in this body and the other body 
are going to wait until the election is over and they're going to call 
a special session. And when they call that special session, they're 
going to try to ram through things such as cap-and-trade, which is 
going to cost every family in this country about $4,000 more for 
utility bills. They're going to try to ram through a bunch of tax 
increases and a whole lot of other things that are bad for the United 
States of America and all the people in this country.
  And so if I were talking to the America people tonight, I'd say: Call 
your Congressman, call your Senator, and call the President and say, We 
don't want anything being rammed through by people who are out of 
office between November and January of next year.

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