On the recordApril 13, 2011
The gentleman is enormously kind. I sat and listened to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton who has lost a vote on this floor that she had, and the citizens of that community, the Mayor and the city council could do nothing but take to the streets to protest, How can you dictate what we do with our own dollars? And so over the next 48 hours, you will see the reason why many Americans are fasting, because they see that this country is going down the road of no return. And it hurts my heart to think that we're going to rescind $16 billion that can be used to make a healthier country, to make a country where children can have access to health care, where a little 10-year- old doesn't die because he has an abscess. I ask my colleagues to vote against all these rules and stop this from going down the road to ruin.
