[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Madam Speaker, this time the process is substance. 
As the Democratic majority prepares to jam President Obama's health 
care through Congress despite his lack of support from the American 
people, our constituents need to know what is going on about the 
process.
  Yesterday in Ohio, President Obama demanded that members of his own 
party show courage and vote for his vision of health care, yet this 
morning, the front page headline in The Washington Post reads ``Pelosi 
may try to pass health bill without vote.''
  In the body of this story, the Speaker refers to a procedural scheme 
to allow the President to sign the Senate-passed health bill without 
the House actually voting on it or even debating it. She said, ``It's 
more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know. But I 
like it because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill.'' Imagine 
that. Affecting 17 percent of the entire U.S. economy without a public 
vote in the House.
  My colleagues, I ask you, is that courage?

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