[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25686]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  PAY ATTENTION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (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, recently the 
nonpartisan Galen Institute commissioned a national survey on the issue 
of health care; very interesting results.
  Seventy-one percent of the American people are opposed to the 
requirement that all Americans must purchase health insurance or pay a 
penalty, which is part of the plan that is before this House.
  Fifty-eight percent of the American people oppose increasing taxes on 
the working and middle class in order to help cover the uninsured, most 
of them strongly opposing that.
  And, Madam Speaker, 71 percent of the American people are concerned 
that their own health insurance will change if Congress passes health 
reform as proposed in this Congress.
  Madam Speaker, isn't it about time we paid attention to the American 
people instead of ignoring them?

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