mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, i feel like i'm telling -- i'm hearing stories told to children. the story is this. when president obama became president, most people didn't live in the house of health. there were 30 million people out on the street had nothing, and so president obama built them a house and said everybody can live in the house of health and have health care. their next door neighbor didn't like the house, complained about the house, said there was everything wrong with the house and has tried 55 times to blow the house down. just like the big bad wolf and the three little pigs. and this time they come with a bulldozer and they want to knock the house down and put everybody out on the street again. now, it wouldn't -- this would be not so silly if it wasn't for the fact that they have no plans to build anything for the people to live in. they've talked for five years, we have plans, we have a committee, we have -- oh, we're going to have plans any day. the fact is they have no plan for the p