[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17308-17309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     FIGHTING FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

  (Mr. PERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I was visited today in my district office by 
an individual who is one of my constituents--and one of my bosses--who 
told me about his disappointment with me and our government here in 
Washington and our inability to positively affect his life.
  He told me a story about how he and his wife lost their health care 
policy. What is worse, he told me about his diagnosis of cancer, which 
has wracked his body and is spreading throughout his organs. He told me 
how he felt Washington didn't care at all about him and how he had been 
lied to. He wanted someone to fight for him and the other people in the 
middle class.
  I just wanted to come to the floor today, Mr. Speaker, and echo that 
account so that he knows that someone is

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here fighting for him. I dedicate myself to fighting on his behalf and 
for the other millions of Americans just like him.

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