Michael Burgess: “An important point is that is a Senate bill. It never went through any House committee. There was never any House input…”

“An important point is that is a Senate bill. It never went through any House committee. There was never any House input or imprint upon that bill. All of that language was derived over in the Senate. And the House of Representatives, although will go down in history as having passed sweeping health care reform if that bill passes tomorrow, the reality is that is all a product of the Senate. The House will have no fingerprints on that bill but will--but will-- have that bill hung around their neck. Nobody knows what is in that stupid bill, I beg your pardon. Nobody knows the degree and the depth of the intricacies of the legislative language contained therein within that bill. And we will be learning. The press will then suddenly become very interested in this bill, and we will learn in great detail over the next several months how many bad things were hidden within the dark recesses of that 2,700-page bill. I am going to finish up in just a minute. If I could, I want to just reiterate the letter from Greg Abbott, the attorney general in the State of Texas, in dealing with the issue of constitutionality of this bill.”