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On the recordMarch 17, 2010
Over months of debate over the government takeover of health care, a growing list of terms created by the Democrats have been added to the American lexicon, terms such as ``Cornhusker kickback,'' ``Louisiana purchase,'' ``Gator aid,'' the ``doc fix,'' ``reconciliation,'' ``nuclear option,'' ``taxpayer-funded abortions,'' and now worst of all, ``deeming a bill passed,'' ``self-executing'' and the ``Slaughter solution.'' The Democrat House members carp that the American people don't care about the process. After speaking to thousands of Americans about this--not only do they absolutely hate this bill 3 to 1 and feel it will damage America forever, they feel the Democrat Party's arrogance of power is unprecedented in American history. Mr. Speaker, process does matter, especially when Members of Congress and a President get themselves elected to power on the promise of transparency and ethics, and then stoop to a system of bribes and creative parliamentarian procedures to ram through a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy, health care, merely to advance their ideology of incremental socialism, which is strongly opposed by the American people.
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John Fleming
Republican · Louisiana
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govinfo.gov
Mar 17, 2010

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The speaker criticizes the Democratic health care reform process and its impact on American values.

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