[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         THE CHOICE: LIMITED GOVERNMENT V. UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Founders purposely defined the 
role of government in the U.S. Constitution to protect ``We the 
people'' from the chains of government.
  Today, the United States Supreme Court began 3 days of oral arguments 
on the nationalized health care law. The issue: whether or not the 
Federal Government has the constitutional authority to force citizens 
to buy government-approved insurance.
  But much more than that is at stake.
  Mr. Speaker, if this law stands, it is the end of limited government 
as we know it and the beginning of unlimited government forced upon the 
people.
  Citizens are frightened.
  Our ancestors were forced to pay a tax on tea, so they threw the 
British tea in the sea. This nationalized health care law should be 
thrown into the sea of government oppression.
  If the Supreme Court upholds this law, we will be on a path of return 
to the philosophy of the British Crown, where Americans were mere 
subjects of omnipotent, unlimited government. Then the constitutional 
days of limited government will drown in the abyss of the sea.
  And that's just the way it is.

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