[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 23755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ``WHITE COATS'' AT THE WHITE HOUSE

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today with 
my white physician's coat because apparently if you're a doctor, this 
white coat is a prerequisite for a meeting at the White House. You can 
see by this photo that the White House felt so strongly about this that 
they actually handed out white coats to the doctors that they invited 
to their photo-op on Monday.
  Mr. Speaker, on September 11 I requested a meeting with the 
President, responding to his statement before Congress that his door is 
always open to talk about health care reform. Many of my colleagues in 
the GOP Doctors Caucus have also asked for meetings.
  Mr. Speaker, I am here on the floor today to say to the President, I 
am a doctor, and I, too, have a white coat. I would like a meeting with 
you to talk about health care reform because I, like so many doctors 
across this country, we support meaningful reform, just not a 
government takeover.
  And, Mr. Speaker, I am here to say I can even bring my own white 
coat.

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