If It Is Good Enough For The American People, It Is Good Enough For Congress

Floor Speech

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, as Democrats push for a government takeover of health care, I hope they will abide by a very simple standard: if a government-run health plan is good enough for the American people, it's good enough for Congress.

During consideration of the over 1,000-page bill in the Education and Labor Committee, I successfully got an amendment passed that would provide that Congress Members who vote in favor of government-run health care would enroll in the plan themselves. The American people should monitor that this provision is kept in the bill.

I want to commend Congressman JOHN FLEMING, a physician, for originally promoting this concept of fairness. I urge my Democrat colleagues to adopt this standard if they insist on dragging a Big Government bureaucracy between patients and doctors. The American people deserve better to protect jobs.

In conclusion, God bless our troops and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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