[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25609]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                PEOPLE OF AMERICA TALKED TO US IN 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. Mr. Speaker, one of the problems 
we have here in Washington, DC, is we often seem to be disconnected 
with our folks back home. That is a problem. It's sort of an 
institutional problem, and that's bad enough. When we do it on purpose, 
that's even worse. We seem to have selective memory, maybe convenient 
amnesia.
  The other side of the aisle appears to have forgotten that there is a 
month in the year called August. It was when the people of America 
talked to us, and they told us that they had grave concerns about the 
proposal that was before us with respect to health care.
  Now we are told, well, look at the ABC poll instead. Forget about 
August. What else have they told us that we can forget about? Oh, 
that's right, Fox News doesn't exist.
  August doesn't exist, Fox News doesn't exist. Maybe next month we 
will hear that the American people don't exist and we are just here 
creating a make-believe America with make-believe problems and make-
believe solutions. Let's remember August where the real people live 
with the real problems and the real need for real solutions.

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