[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  GIVING A VOICE TO TEA PARTY ACTIVIST

  (Mr. McCAUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, tonight I want to give a voice to one of 
my constituents by the name of Jennifer Heiden. She is a TEA party 
activist. She wrote me a letter. She said, ``My name is Jennifer 
Heiden. I am a wife, a daughter, a mother, a sister, business 
professional, and grassroots leader.
  ``We are dismayed at this Congress and its proposed health care 
legislation. You stress accountability and transparency, but fail to 
disclose to the American people that its 20-year costs are in the $4.9 
trillion price range once you cut through the budget gimmicks. You 
avoid town halls and citizen gatherings since you found that we had 
questions you could not or would not answer. And you draft bills in 
secret and give no one sufficient time to read them or understand them.
  ``The majority of Americans do not want this bill, and you know it. 
Do what this country elected you to do. Scrap this legislation and give 
us health care reform that will help--not hurt--this country and its 
citizens.''

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