[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 GOVERNOR CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN HIGHLIGHTS THE PROBLEM WITH BACKROOM 
                        HEALTH CARE NEGOTIATIONS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Congress and this administration 
continue pushing a job-killing health care takeover. Brokered in back 
rooms, the bill includes $518 billion in new job-killing taxes that 
will hurt small businesses, and squeezing Medicare threatens senior 
citizens.
  Backroom deals in Washington is politics at its worst, and it is high 
time that the American people were given a seat at the negotiations 
table.
  The President promised the American people eight different times 
health care would be public. C-SPAN has offered to broadcast the 
negotiations. In Politico, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd 
Whitman highlights Speaker Pelosi's brushoff of the request, saying 
that the President stood for a number of things while on the campaign 
trail.
  I encourage the Speaker to encourage the President to keep his 
promise of open discussions by letting C-SPAN show the American people 
what is going on behind closed doors. We need change in Washington.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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