[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14401]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans in the House 
compromised and voted to fund everything in the entire Federal 
Government but ObamaCare. Yet the President refuses to compromise on 
anything, even just that one bill.
  If you think most of the national media is not biased, just consider 
the fact that they are not calling on the President to compromise at 
all. The national media apparently believes that House Republicans 
should be the only ones required to compromise.
  Then look, too, at the different treatment given Texas State Senator 
Wendy Davis' filibuster and the filibuster-like speech by Senator Ted 
Cruz. The elite national media made Senator Davis an overnight 
sensation and treated her as courageous and even heroic. But Senator 
Cruz has been blasted in every way by the liberals who control most of 
the media--a double standard that is both very unfair and very harmful 
to the Nation.
  If the Federal Government shuts down, it will be in large part 
because the national media for some reason feels the President has no 
obligation to compromise or moderate his views in any way.

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