Health Care Reform

Floor Speech

Mr. TURNER. Madam Speaker, I am just a bill, and I am sitting here on Capitol Hill waiting for a vote, apparently, unless you're in Nancy Pelosi's House. Unlike in ``School House Rock,'' Nancy Pelosi says that this little guy doesn't need to wait around for a vote. He can be deemed to be passed.

Now, this is a new one for my daughter Jessica's high school government class. They can't understand how Speaker Pelosi can deem a bill passed without a vote. There is no deeming a bill passed in ``School House Rock'' or in the expectations of the American people.

In today's Washington Post, Speaker Pelosi tells us why she wants to deem the health care bill passed without a vote. She suggests that it politically protects lawmakers who are reluctantly supporting the measure. However, the American people are smart. They know that for this bill to become law, it takes a vote.

Madam Speaker, let's stop the parliamentary tricks. Let's bring this bill to a vote, and I will be voting ``no.''

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