Jerry Nadler: “I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this resolution lists many Communist dictators, but it doesn't list…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this resolution lists many Communist dictators, but it doesn't list any of the capitalist dictators--from Hitler to Mussolini to Franco to Salazar to Peron, and so many more, because the issue is not socialism, the issue is tyranny. The second issue is the progress of the American people. Because every single issue of progress from Medicare to Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act to public housing to Social Security has been called by Republican leaders at the time ``socialist.'' This is not an attack on tyranny. This is an attack on all of these programs. This is an attack on Medicare, on Social Security, on public housing, on Federal aid to education, on everything the Republicans have quoted ``socialist'' when they were first enacted, and they still want to get rid of. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I have heard the most absurd argument just now on the House floor. The contents of this resolution are very simple and very straightforward: A system that is borne out of freedom inevitably begets freedom and a liberation of people from tyranny. An economic system that is borne out of taking inevitably leads to the loss of human life and centralization and control by despotic people. That is what this resolution speaks to. It does not speak to any programs here in the United States. It doesn't talk about our system of government.…”