On the recordMarch 10, 2010
I told my constituents that this bill, first of all, would destroy the quality of health care in America. The second thing it was going to do was it was going to destroy the Federal budget. And that if I were to put this bill on a scale of all the legislation I've seen since I've been in Congress--and I'm getting a little older; this is my tenth year--that this bill is more than twice as bad as the next worst bill that I've ever seen. So this bill is altogether in another category. I said, The last year and a half, we've served in the wilderness. But I said, The difference of the wilderness is that I walk up as though I were walking up to the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplated what happens if you go over that abyss. It appears to me tonight, gentlemen, that we are standing on an abyss. And that if we step off the edge by passing this bill, America will not be the same country she's ever been in the past, and we will not be able to recover from that.
