[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 215]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, today is the beginning of a process by 
which the Republicans will try to repeal the affordable health care 
bill. It is about 50/50 in popularity in America.
  How can a bill with such individual constituent elements that are so 
popular, such as keeping young people on your insurance until they're 
26, eliminating the doughnut hole, and seeing to it that there are more 
community health centers, be so unpopular? Because the Republican 
mantra has been--and it was even said today--that it is a government 
takeover of health care.
  PolitiFact, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic group from 
the St. Petersburg Times--a nonpartisan group--said that was the 
biggest lie in political 2010.
  Instead of reading the Constitution yesterday, maybe we should have 
just repeated ``do not bear false witness.''

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