Not My Country

Floor Speech

Not My Country

Mr. FLEMING. Madam Speaker, earlier this week four Members of the President's Cabinet, including Secretary Sebelius, came to my home State of Louisiana to build grassroots support for ObamaCare in the rural areas, but they found themselves defending the administration's broader effort to take over the Nation's health care system. To say they were greeted by skepticism would be an understatement.

The anger over the direction this country is moving was best expressed by a gentleman who told the group, Please carry a message to Mr. Obama, that it will be a cold day in hell before he socializes my country.

The administration and a small group of very liberal Democrats are intent on pushing through a government takeover of health care, even though more than half this country does not want it.

Democrats in this House are moving forward with a health care plan that will hurt the sacred relationship between Americans and their doctor, deny access to needed treatments, and place power in the hands of Washington bureaucrats. Why are you in such a rush? Are you afraid Americans will learn the truth this time and stop it?

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