[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H13]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. We heard the President--now the President--say back in a 
debate with Hillary Clinton in 2008, ``That's what I will do in 
bringing all the parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, 
but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations 
on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.''
  We know in the debate, when he was running against John McCain, our 
now-President said, ``I'm going to have all the negotiations around a 
big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. 
Insurance companies, drug companies--they'll get a seat at the table, 
they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, 
we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN so that people can see 
who's making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who's making 
arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.''
  We heard the Speaker say repeatedly that when she was Speaker, this 
would be the most open government ever. So it's deeply perplexing, 
since we know they would never lie, why they're preventing what they 
promised from coming true.

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