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On the recordMarch 18, 2010
The President has promised the American people a whole string of things. He's promised that he won't sign a bill that costs over $900 billion. He's promised that the negotiations--eight times on national television he said negotiations will take place on C-SPAN. There won't be backroom deals. This will be all out in the open, and it's going to lower the cost of the health care. We know it goes the opposite, the whole string of things, that there isn't even a pretense that he is going to keep his word on. And here's Merle Haggard's part of the song ``Rainbow Stew.'' It says: ``When a President goes through the White House door, an' does what he says he'll do, we'll all be drinkin' free bubble-ubb, eatin' that rainbow stew.'' They'd like us to eat the toxic stew, and the American people won't have any part of it.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Mar 18, 2010

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The speaker criticizes the President's broken promises regarding health care reform.

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