[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15072]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           POLITICAL PROCESS

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, we hear a lot from our Republican 
friends about funding for NIH and these pediatric research programs 
where dozens of children can get cancer treatment, and they make a big 
deal about it. On our side, we want to make sure every child in the 
United States has access to health care in case they get cancer.
  We hear from the other side: We want to open the World War II 
Memorial so that veterans can have access to the memorial. But if that 
veteran's spouse or that veteran's child may have cancer or not have 
health care, we're saying, as Americans, that we should cover every 
American. Isn't that what they fought and died for, justice for all, 
and health care justice for all? And we hear from the other side: 
They're shutting down the government.
  I was against the Iraq war. The Iraq war was unaffordable. The Iraq 
war was unpopular. Fifty-eight percent of the American people were 
against the Iraq war. Democrats didn't shut down the government.
  Use the political process--which we did, and won the House back in 
'06, won the Presidency in '08, and wound down the Iraqi war. That's 
how you govern in democracy.
  Two hundred-plus years we have been governing in this country through 
a political process. You wrap yourselves in the flag, and then you 
don't use the democratic process.

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