[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1465-H1466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, this year I replaced town hall 
meetings in my district with listening sessions. I go to hear what my 
constituents have to teach me and to teach this body. They want us to 
know that the process matters to them. Some of my colleagues like to 
say that it doesn't make any difference, but my constituents know that 
when legislation is negotiated in the backroom, that America loses. 
They know that in the back rooms, stimulus bills turn into pork bills, 
bailout bills turn into just more debt, and energy bills turn into 
taxes.
  Today, hundreds of Americans are walking the halls of this building, 
asking us to stop this outrageous government takeover of health care 
and take health reform step by step and structure a system that lets 
them out of this broken system, not locks them into it permanently. I 
hear them, Madam Speaker, and I certainly hope that this Chamber hears 
them.

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