[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 130 (Tuesday, September 15, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H9499-H9500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PEOPLE LIKE HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, at my townhall meetings, I was amazed at

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how much consensus there was about health care reform. People liked 
health care reform.
  What they didn't like were things that are not actually in the bill. 
Because of the massive disinformation campaign on this bill, people 
didn't like things that weren't there.
  There were more hallucinations about this from opponents of this bill 
than there were when Timothy Leary was doing business in Haight-Ashbury 
in the late 1960s. Take this hallucination that this bill is going to 
insure illegal immigrants. You look at page 132, it says, ``For 
purposes of this division, the term `affordable credit individual' 
means, subject to subsection (b), an individual who is lawfully present 
in a State in the United States.''
  Look at page 143, ``Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal 
payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not 
lawfully present in the United States.''
  Now, the President was challenged during his joint address to the 
U.S. Congress. I will tell you what, if there was a deception, it 
wasn't by the President of the United States.
  And it is time for us to call out those people who spread 
hallucinations, phantoms, boogeymen. People want health care and this 
reform. We are going to pass it.

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