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James Carville
@jamescarville· Democratic · LA· May 25, 2010

If he just goes to Grand Isle, walk on the beach, they are going to have the whole thing -- Tony Hayward is out there screaming at cameramen and directing people.

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James Carville
@jamescarville· Democratic · LA· May 25, 2010

He needs to see what we saw today. He needs to go into the marsh. And he's a very, very smart man. He got to understand how important, and how environmentally sensitive and how crucial and how productive and fertile this is.

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James Carville
@jamescarville· Democratic · LA· May 25, 2010

These wetlands have a vital importance, not only economically, but socially, to the life here in Louisiana.

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James Carville
@jamescarville· Democratic · LA· May 25, 2010

He needs to go investigate this and find out what it is. And when he does, I think we're going to get a lot of action. I think this is a man who cares.

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John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Mr. Speaker, like millions of small business owners across the country, Zach Hoffman had been duped into believing his office furniture store would qualify for the small business tax credit under ObamaCare. Imagine his surprise when after…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

So there were a number of promises made and, you know, each time we tried to rebut these, we were told that we were using scare tactics, that we are scaring old people and that, really, it was unconscionable to do that. So what has…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

I thank the gentleman, Dr. Broun from Georgia. And I still see patients as well when I get a chance, but it's not nearly as often as I'd like. We, being both family physicians, I think we have a special bond. I want to thank the gentleman…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

I thank the gentleman. What I would like to do is take a moment to look through the retro spectroscope, where we are today now that the bill has passed, look at the rhetoric that occurred during the debate--

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Right. Well it's a quasi-medical term which is equivalent to armchair quarterbacking or postmortem in which we look back and we go, How do things look now, looking back, as opposed to the way they looked then? You know, what we were saying…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Yes, what's happening is the employers, now that they are getting the language of the bill--remember that Speaker Pelosi said if we want to find out what's in it, we have got to pass it first, okay? Well, now it's passed. So, now, business…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

But it goes further than that. There's going to be $120 billion in taxes that were not anticipated. That's on top of the $600 billion that were already----

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Additional tax from the actuary who is saying it's going to be more taxes. Job cuts: 90 percent of medical device makers say that they will eliminate jobs. That's 9 out of 10 companies that make anything from tongue blades to pacemakers…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Yes. So you have costs going up and you have jobs going down. We know that there's supposed to be 32 million more Americans covered under this than otherwise. Half of those are to be estimated to be going into Medicaid. And doctors across…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Well, what it basically means is that there's going to be a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, perhaps not even doctors, who are going to be tasked with looking at research, hopefully there's going to be research or they are going to do…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25
John Fleming
@johnfleming· Republican · LA· May 25, 2010

Right. This is his quote. He considers the British health system ``a global treasure.'' In fact, it's my understanding--I don't have it in my data right here--it's my understanding that he helped design it. And it's designed very simply…

Congressional Record · 2010-05-25