House Proceeding 07-09-09 on Jul 9th, 2009 :: 2:01:20 to 2:03:00
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Louie Gohmert: your credit card receipts.

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Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

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Michael C. Burgess: whoops, you bought too many twinkies. once the government controls that, it will control your life. mr. burgess: he brings up a valid point and the american people are goingo be asked to undergo significant change in the way they receive their health care. yeah, it may be change they voted for in november.

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Michael C. Burgess: it may be change they can believe in, but i don't know it's going to be change they like. i do, mr. speaker, if i could -- i know i must address my comments to the chair and not to the public, but if i could address the public at large, i would tell them, they need to be very skeptical of what this body is doing during the middle of

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Michael C. Burgess: the night without much scrutiny or study of these bills and processes as they go throug the individual members of congress do need to hear from their constituents on this issue. it's too important, too important for the american people to remain silent. there are web sites out there where there are petitions that may be signed.

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Michael C. Burgess: americansolutions.com, gayland.org. and letfreedomring, which they have a pledge posted on-line, these are worth while efforts that the american people can undertake to make their representatives know how they want to be represented. and i think people got the

2:02:50 to 2:03:01( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: message on cap and trade and got the message a little late. we might have been able to turn that vote if we had one additional half-day of debate on that topic.