[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22707]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, there has been a 
lot of attention to the fact that Members of Congress held town hall 
meetings during the month of August, and there was much discussion 
about the passion that was expressed there.
  Well, it's now September, and we're still holding town hall meetings. 
I had one last Saturday in my district. And let me tell you the passion 
is still there.
  The average citizen in my district looks to Congress to do the right 
thing. And they are not satisfied. They are not pleased. They are not 
happy in any way, shape, or form with respect to the Obama health care 
plan and its various versions here in the House of Representatives and 
the United States Senate.
  They have asked me to convey to my colleagues the fact that they are 
concerned about the size of government, the cost of government, the 
size of taxation, and the amount of debt we're imposing on our children 
and our grandchildren. They want us to get serious about those things. 
They don't want us to give up on them.
  By the way, they're not mobs. They're not un-American. They are the 
very essence of America. They come to my meetings in ones, twos and 
threes. They are everyday Americans wanting a responsive House of 
Representatives that recognizes simple truths.

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