[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23544]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         THANKING CONSTITUENTS FOR INPUT AT TOWN HALL MEETINGS

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, the right of people to openly and freely 
question their leaders and discuss solutions to common problems is the 
reason our democracy works.
  I hold town hall meetings every August all across my district. This 
August, I had nine town hall meetings. I had over 700 people come out 
to these meetings. It is a wonderful time. The overwhelming majority of 
my constituents had a clear message: It is high time to change the way 
Washington does business.
  The people of western North Carolina are sick of wasteful spending 
and the broken Tax Code that funds it. They have had it with 
incompetence and waste in Federal bureaucracies. They are sick and 
tired of Washington not securing the border and stopping illegal 
immigration.
  Again, I want to thank my constituents for coming out to these town 
hall meetings. It is a sincere pleasure to represent them and to try to 
fight for that change here in Washington, DC.
  Madam Speaker, I want to thank them for coming out and making their 
voices heard. I have listened, and I am working to make that change.

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