[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 15620-15621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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            ABC SHOULD AIR BOTH SIDES OF HEALTH CARE DEBATE

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, next Wednesday, those tuning in to 
ABC for news coverage instead will see an extended commercial for 
President Obama and for his government-run health care system.
  According to ABC, the network will feature the President's health 
care agenda during its morning, evening and prime time news programs, 
as well as on its Web site. The finale will be a health care townhall 
meeting with President Obama that will be broadcast directly from the 
White House.
  ABC should present both sides of the health care debate, not just the 
administration's side. Unfortunately, ABC has announced no plans to 
devote time to an opposing viewpoint. In fact, they have refused to air 
ads critical of the administration's health care plan. It is this kind 
of biased news programming

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that has caused Americans to lose faith in the national media.

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