[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        WHAT HAPPENED TO AUGUST?

  (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. Madam Speaker, before I return 
to my district this weekend, I thought I might ask the question on this 
floor once again, what happened to August? What happened to August? 
What happened to those town hall meetings? What happened to the pleas 
we heard from average, everyday Americans coming to town hall meetings 
by ones, twos and threes, coming with families, not coming bused, not 
coming organized, but just coming out of a concern about what we were 
about to do on this floor.
  And yet I returned here after that period of time, and I have heard 
deafening silence from the White House about August. I have heard an 
absolute repudiation of August by the Democrats in the House and in the 
Senate.
  No. We are talking about health care reform as if August did not 
exist, as if the American people did not exist and as if their concerns 
were not our concerns.
  What happened to August? What happened to August?

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