[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, the men and women of this great 
Nation are not stupid, even though there have been strident, permanent 
and significant efforts to mislead them; that reached its heyday in 
August. But now we're talking about a public option because the people 
are speaking now.
  And so I want to salute the American people; you want affordable 
health care, which means you are sick and tired of the rise in 
premiums, the cost of premiums and the number of denials that you are 
getting after dutifully paying those premiums for years and years. So I 
want to congratulate the American people; you are about to have a 
victory with respect to health care.

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