Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Well, I want to thank you, Representative Tonko, and my other good colleague, Representative Garamendi, for leading this…”

“Well, I want to thank you, Representative Tonko, and my other good colleague, Representative Garamendi, for leading this special order and for offering the perspective that you've begun this hour with, something that our fathers and grandfathers are responsible for, the Greatest Generation, and now has been embraced by the American people. And as proud Democrats, we are very, very proud of that, of these very important reforms. I wanted to come to the floor as well to offer some real-life, real- time evidence as people try to judge what they've heard on the floor today and what they heard on the floor yesterday about the health care bill. We teach our children fair play, you win some, you lose some. And when you lose, then you've lost that one; you try again another time. What they've seen in the House this year and last year are the Republicans trying to repeal financial reform. They lost that. It's as if the law of the land weren't the law of the land. Now they're trying to repeal health care reform even when the Supreme Court announces the law of the land. They've come to the point where they do not recognize the law of the land as announced by passage in the Senate and the House, signature of the President, and, in the case of the health care reform bill, the imprimatur, which is the last word, of the Supreme Court.…”