And if you were to rate how bad legislation is in Congress, the one that you chose to talk about, that health care bill, I would rate that as probably the worst bill I have seen in 22 years. And it is high enough on that Richter scale that when it got done, American civilization would have been shaken so badly, there wouldn't have been much of it left. That was really a bad one. My rating number two, and I just want to see where you are on rating these things, whether you are the same scientist that I would be, and I would say that that cap-and-tax bill was another one that would be not quite as bad but still a real mess of a bad bill.
W. Todd Akin: “And if you were to rate how bad legislation is in Congress, the one that you chose to talk about, that health care bill…”
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The speaker critiques the health care bill and cap-and-tax legislation, comparing their impact to severe earthquakes.
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